text: please explain to me about this rule? today i went to an antiques shop near me. i went with 3 of my friends, who 13, 13, and 12. we wanted to see if the store's popcorn machine was making any popcorn. usually, they sell it for $0.50. when we went in, the owner asked what we were doing. my friend said that we were just looking around. the guy said that he didn't want us here and that we should leave. so we left. pretty annoyed. isn't there some law that allows us to stay there unless we are planning to or are breaking something? he can't just force us out of here because we're teens! not all teens are rough-house. if there is such a law, can you please give me a link to the website so i can show that person proof?  p.s. yes this should be in politics and government, but barely anybody uses that. many people use science and math. i can get more and better answers this way. please don't report me. thank you. it is not against any law to require people to be a certain minimum age to go into a store.  people that say there is just don't know.  there won't be such a law because people your age don't vote, so the politians that make the laws don't care, and that's the truth.  the fact that it's a private business has nothing to do with it.  a private business can't be white only, but they can keep teens out.  the civil rights laws all pretain to sex, race, religion, yada yada yada, but does not give any rights to children.  a shop owner does not have the right to refuse service to anyone, they can't refuse service to blacks and muslims.  i can't believe how much ignorance there is here.