Guns VS Junk Food... Choose your poison wisely!
I just saw this article about Sonic... add to this Chile's, Chipotle, and Jack in the Box, all have anti-firearm "statements"... Not that I spend a lot in fast "food" establishments, but this opened my eyes to places I think I'll have to issue a "pass" on...
I'm sure the criminals will be intimidated by the notice and comply... NOT! Gun free zones are a welcome mat for the ne'er do well. Ideology trumps common sense...
Regards,
O.A.
Not my brand of ideology, that's for sure! Maybe the corporate ditzy-heads will think getting their establishment in the news by sponsoring mass-masacares at their restaurants will somehow boost business. True Looter/moocher mentality there...
How about this instead... Armed customers receive a 5% discount. And a sign thanking them for their patronage and their patriotism.
Stay out of there if you don't want someone to take you hostage.
So Sonic wants to tell you you can't carry a gun *in your own automobile*?
And I don't care how it makes you "feel", or how "insane" you may think it is...
The 2nd Amendment says that they cannot stop you from bringing arms into their establishments, *if they will allow you in without them*.
They can turn you away, but if you try to go back in without your weapon, and they let you in... you should be able to sue the living shit out of them for violating your 2nd Amendment rights.
The 1st Amendment specifies the federal government. The 2nd Amendment has no such specification; it's a blanket restriction.
"...shall not be infringed".
While moderns may think this insane (because even pro-gun people think, subliminally, that a gun-toter is a potential mass-murderer), it makes perfect sense. Imagine the tavern requiring you to leave your musket at home, or outside (if it's a wayside tavern on one of the many roads between villages), and then it, or the village it's in, is attacked by "red indians", or British regulars. Oops, can't defend ourselves, the tavern, or even the State, because we don't have our weapons in the tavern with us where we can get at them.
If the Luby's case didn't make this clear to people... nothing will.
Yeah, yeah, Objectivists scream property rights... but is property just a hunk of land, or is it coins, paper, clothing, pens, car keys... or any other property that a person might carry with them? In effect, you are saying that an individual must give up his own right to property if he walks into someone else's property, even if his intent is to trade value for value... the purpose of the property in question, after all?
If merely carrying a gun into an establishment violates their right to property... then so does merely wearing clothing.
Who here would support a restaurant that demanded its patrons strip naked before allowing entry?
Why is it that these worthless spineless psychotics always shoot the wrong person (themselves) last, when they should be first...
believe that it was St Martin(/St Maarten) on the
SW corner -- enticing!!! -- j
p.s. if I had a restaurant, I'd call the media and ask
that they cover my posting a "please arrive armed"
sign. then, I'd only have to provide security for my
"closed" hours. the customers and the employees
would be among the 99.9% of fine upstanding U.S.
members providing security when open. -- j
Now you know why concealed carry laws are unConstitutional.
The old west of Judge Roy Bean was a safer place, not because everybody carried a gun, only about 50 percent of the people did, as a working tool, but because 99 percent of those who carried knew what they were for and how to use them, but were also responsible enough to know when to use them.
Now we are unsafe because almost the only people with guns are those involved in thuggary and they don't know how to use or control them.
Its hard to believe that this is the same world where an insane school board is willing to expel a kid for a cap gun.
Perhaps all the gun toters should walk by Sonic carrying signs proclaiming their intent to eat elsewhere. Hitting them in the revenues is the way to get attention and to get results.
Of course many gun toters have work to do while anti-gunners are unemployed.
As long as they feel this way, I and my family will stay out of the places.
Here in IL, if a business wants to keep licensed concealed handgun carriers out of their businesses, they must post a specified sign conspicuously on their door. Where I live there are very few and the number is dropping like their sales figures.
One business that's not posted but has within their "membership agreement" every "member" signs, a clause that members will not carry within their store is Costco. While they can potentially revoke the offending persons membership, I know several who carry there anyway.
I don't use the place myself, but since they don't have metal detectors there (can you imagine what my wheelchair would do to one?) I doubt that aside from a firearm becoming completely bare, they have any idea how many guns pass through their doors.
Note they also carry firearms related items: http://reviews.costco.com/2070/11642193/...