[walls]

Instead we get this version:

You are shopping at a store along with some other customers. When entering the store, you notice a gun laying on the ground by the door. You keep coming back every week, pointing it out, asking if that's intended or not.

They continue to ignore you, or explain how it's intended; a good thing even!

Eventually someone with malicious intent also sees the gun, picks it up, shoots a fellow customer, puts it back where it was, and walks off.

By the next day, miraculously, management will have found the time and resources to remove the gun.

[fastball]

Agreed, that is what often happens. But after seeing this pattern before, that does not mean the solution going forward is to yell "hey everyone there is a gun" and hope management gets to it before the person with malicious intent.

Sure, maybe management will ignore you if you tell them about the gun privately. At that point, feel free to disclose publicly. But they are guaranteed to not do anything if they don't know about it and you don't tell them (before telling everyone else including bad actors).