Posted on 10/26/2015 5:44:31 PM PDT by digger48
INDIANAPOLIS - An Indianapolis restaurant is offering a meal discount if you have a license to carry a handgun.
The owner of the Papa Roux Cajun restaurant on E. 10th St. is implementing the policy after a robbery. It's the third violent act against a restaurant in the past week.
At noon Monday, there was a steady stream of customers heading to Papa Roux, many with a license to carry that would earn them a 25-percent discount. There's a sign on the door asking customers for patience as Papa Roux deals with a tremendous amount of media coverage since the story broke on Saturday.
Broad Ripple-area restaurant robbed during business hours “The word needs to get out,” said owner Art Bouvier, speaking about those people in line with a license to carry a handgun.
“It seems like the world is coming to a place where a lot of people are taking advantage of goodhearted people and just coming in and taking and taking, and maybe it's time we stood up to that,” said Tina Miller of Indianapolis.
Someone walked into Papa Roux Saturday, threatened that they had a weapon and stole an undetermined amount of cash from the tip jars. Owner Art Bouvier responded by posting to Facebook an offer of 25 percent off to any customer who came in with a license to carry a handgun. Bouvier says he's not trying to showboat or make a political statement. He just feels it's the right thing to do under the circumstances.
"I had a guy in here Saturday night who illegally brought a gun in and wanted to do harm with it. It's propaganda, right? The best mental push-back for that is for people to think, 'Oh, there may be people in there who are legally carrying guns so maybe I should go somewhere else.' And if everybody were to do that, there's nowhere else to go," Bouvier said.
Panera delivery driver shot on Indianapolis north side Customers were lined up at the counter for lunch Monday. Local and national media have responded to Bouvier, along with the National Rifle Association.
One customer said, "I feel like this is the safest place in Indy today."
"These days I feel like a lot of people are just taking and taking an it's time that someone took a stand," said another customer.
While diners packed the small eatery in a show of support, detractors on Facebook wrote, "I do not want stuck in the crossfire" and "Won't be going there ever."
Zionsville woman lobbies for gun control on 'Meredith' Bouvier feels more people armed in his restaurant will act as a deterrent to future robbery attempts. In the case of a robbery, though, police insist officers always be called and customers open fire only as a last resort.
“It's got to rise to a level where a reasonable person would invoke fear for their life,” explained IMPD Sgt. Kendale Adams.
Once again, the Roux finds itself in the spotlight. Once again, dishing out a healthy serving of social commentary.
“I didn't expect it to be a publicity event in any way, and I don't understand it. I'm thrilled for it - I'll use it, you know I will - but I don't understand it,” said Bouvier.
http://www.wthr.com/story/30354924/zionsville-woman-lobbies-for-gun-control-on-meredith
Not everyone is in favor of the discount program at Papa Roux for customers with a license to carry a handgun.
The issue was a topic of discussion on "The Meredith Vieira Show," which aired Monday morning on Channel 13.
Shannon Watts of Zionsville founded the group "Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America." She talked about the prospect of armed people in stores and restaurants -- and her group's efforts to change policy.
"A lot of people don't realize you can go to your local Kroger store and there's someone with a loaded AR-15 standing next to you. That's perfectly legal," Watts said on the show. "We've gotten companies like Target, Starbucks and Chipotle to change their gun policies."
Watts said what started as an online discussion turned into a worldwide movement with more than 3 million members.
This place is 200 yards away from the IMPD training center, and East-side Indianapolis Command Post.
The whole area has gotten bad in the last 5-6 years, with a HUGE influx of minorities, when the apartments in the area went Section 8.
The businesses Watts named didn’t change their gun policy, they asked that people not carry, but said they would abide by state and local laws.
When was the last time anybody here saw someone carrying a loaded AR-15 in the grocery store?
And when was the last mass shooting with an AR-15 done in a grocery?
Looks like I shoulda done a bit of editting before I posted
It might be an old stereotype, but the fact is that all-night doughnut shops had a policy of giving cops free coffee and doughnuts in the midnight shifts (actually, all shifts but those were the ones they needed help with) to make it so the robbers would either see there were cops there or know cops could stop by at any second.
It worked.
And continues to do so to this day.
I would eat there without asking for the discount.
It’s good to see people are standing up and facing off against the evil.
I'd do the same. But, I'd be sure to tell them I was there BECAUSE of the policy, and that I appreciated it.
Love the food at the Roux - Mama & Papa are great people, and their Croux are awesome as well...
I really hope that permit holders don’t take advantage of their generosity.
“Watts said what started as an online discussion turned into a worldwide movement with more than 3 million members.”
Shannon R. Watts was a Democrat public relations executive.
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is a campaign by Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Both Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America will be brought under a new umbrella group called Everytown for Gun Safety.
And all of it is funded by Michael Bloomberg to the tune of about $50 million a year.
Great marketing.
Yeah I love it when liberals get to enjoy diversity too.
Who says that Democrats can’t be bought off?
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