Posted on 09/13/2014 9:58:21 AM PDT by rktman
Panera has just added itself to the growing list of companies who are asking customers to keep their weapons at home.
The soup, sandwich and salad chain released the following statement this week: "We ask that guns not be brought into this environment unless carried by an authorized law enforcement officer. Panera respects the rights of gun owners, but asks our customers to help preserve the environment we are working to create for our guests and associates."
Here are just a handful of other companies to ask the same:
(Excerpt) Read more at hlntv.com ...
I think you're right. If by chance I was in one of these places or a family member was and anything happened with a firearm - including "just" a single shooting, brandishing, robbery, etc... I would hire the slickest shyster lawyer I could find and go after them for negligence and failure to ensure my safety even though they required me to disarm. Not just for any physical or emotional trauma, I'd go big on the "punitive" damages, like deep into 8 figures...tell the lawyer I'll cut him/her in for 50% to motivate them...
Panera is great store to visit, once and never again. Just like Teavana.
Sign or no sign, concealed carry, done right, means my gun is not visible, unless needed.
He still has the hair. He’s been there the whole time. Tommy Johnson had some stomach issues and sometimes doesn’t perform. The bass player left for quite a few years. They rocked the house. I’d have preferred them to headline. And John McViegh (?) can play like nobodies business. Guitar, fiddle, pedal steel. Made my fingers hurt just watchin’ him. It was Simmons son who irked me. He wouldn’t be livin’ on Maui if not for his dad.
This is why I always smile as I CONCEAL carry. Unless they set up a metal detector or start pat downs at the door, how will this affect me? I betcha I still get my pumpkin bagel next month even with 18 rounds and one in the chamber. They get their money and I get my favorite bagel and a smile. Commerce is good!
I can understand a store ban on open carry.
Don’t like it, but I understand it.
However, a blanket ban on all carry, open or concealed, is dumb.
My policy is not to patronize such places if possible.
If for some reason I need to enter such an establishment, and they are not enforcing their policy with a metal detector or pat down searches, then concealed means concealed and they will never know.
[[Panera respects the rights of gun owners,]]
LIE- they do NOT respect the rights of owners
This corporations press release is an example of what has been called “the precious modern lie,” i.e. where one both affirms and denies the same thing at the same time. They state explicitly ‘we are for gun rights’ but implicitly state ‘don’t exercise gun rights.’ A blatant attempt to curry favor with two incompatible groups.
Liberal DemocRats ENABLE crime by DISABLING the law abiding and then taxing them to appease the ‘special victim’ classes....
>>earns them brownie points with certain kinds of cuistomers.
Capitalism at work.
Meaningless PC posturing, unless they are going to start searching their customers, which if they were truly committed to having a “Gun Free” environment, they would do, and to hell with the damage to their business that would cause.
But it’s so much easier to just make grand PC statements where there s no real cost for supporting their liberal sensibilities.
“We like caste systems. We think some people are fundamentally different from other people, such as the difference between Lords and peasants. We have no problem with Lords being armed, because they are Lords, but peasants, not at all. We don’t want armed peasants at all. It’s a peasant’s duty to know his place.”
I wonder if mass murderers keep a list of safe shooting facilities.
By ignoring them, you are rewarding businesses which support Bloomturd.
Not a good strategy.
I won't wait in line to eat, especially at some chain restaurant. I will simply go somewhere else.
That's just me. However, I am all but certain that a public convenience can not deny me my right to the second Amendment anymore than a bakery can deny a Homosexual a wedding cake. It is a great test case in the Federal Courts. Why is sodomy a thoroughly unhealthy and universally believed perversion a protected class, but the actual Amendment IN the Constitution in black and white is open to interpretation?
I actually had a Panera Rewards on my keychain and emailed them last night telling them with the account # to cancel my account and that my family would no longer be dining there.
In the case of AMC and Regal I imagine that idiot on Florida who shot that guy over a text message may have had something to do with it. They don’t want the liability.
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