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Maine restaurant won't serve customers who like guns
Heatstreet ^ | August 1, 2016 | Andrew Stiles

Posted on 08/02/2016 4:59:02 PM PDT by Kaslin

After the deadly terror attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, a restaurant owner in Portland (Maine not Oregon) wanted to do something “outside the box” in order to solve the problem of “gun violence” in America.

So she wrote a post on Facebook.

Anne Verrill, owner of two Portland-area restaurants, wrote on Facebook that anyone who owns—or even supports an individual’s right to own—an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, may “no longer enter either of my restaurants, because the only thing I want to teach my children is love.”

The post was deleted after a bunch of people on the internet who like guns found out about it and wrote mean things and threatened to boycott.

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The New York Times published a rather breathless account of Verrill’s activism:

This time she took a stand, knowing it could hurt her business in a pro-gun, largely rural state, where hunting and target practice are immensely popular and where the political schisms run deep.

It’s one thing to say that people who carry AR-15s, which is legal to do in Maine without a permit, cannot be served in a restaurant. Over the past several years, big chains such as Starbucks, Chipotle, and Panera Bread have implored customers in “open-carry” states not to bring their firearms into their establishments.

But Verrill wants to refuse service to people who simply believe that Americans should have a right to carry rifles. Some have noted that the situation is similar to a baker refusing to serve a gay couple on religious grounds. Such incidents sparked a wave of lawsuits and general outrage on the left, which usually rails against discrimination.

But maybe it’s just a certain kind of discrimination they don’t like. Consider the following thread:

Liberals love discrimination, as long as it's the Right Kind of discrimination, against the Right Kind of people. pic.twitter.com/EBhJTXz7bd

— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) August 1, 2016

@CRobertBuchanan do you consider being a member of a religion a choice?

— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) August 1, 2016

@CRobertBuchanan just like gun ownership!

— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) August 1, 2016

Verrill wrote a follow-up post on Facebook, insisting that she wouldn’t stop “fighting for a better world” even if it costs her business.

“If evil and hate want to boycott my restaurants then so be it—because I believe good will be on my side on this,” she wrote. “As long as my doors are open I will believe that love is love.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: allyouneedislove; anneverrill; banglist; guns; maine; secondamendment
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To: Secret Agent Man

“She will be liable for everyone hurt in her restaurant because she disarmed all of them first and gave them zero security protection.”

And since most cops own an AR-15 for their personal use, I guess when the SHTF, they won’t come to her aid.

As someone said:
“You may not like guns or God, but when your life is in danger, you will pray to God for a cop with a gun to show up and save you.”


61 posted on 08/02/2016 6:24:26 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Kaslin
Portland Maine...The Portland Oregon of the East Coast...

If Portland wasn't in Maine... Maine would be a red state...Portlanders HATE LePage..

62 posted on 08/02/2016 6:25:12 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (Asking me who's the best President in my lifetime is like asking what's the best poison...)
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To: Kaslin

Hey, when people self appoint themselves for a boycott why disappoint them?


63 posted on 08/02/2016 6:33:35 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Kaslin

Thought fascist in Portland, Maine. Why am I not surprised? New England used to be the home of American patriots. Today it is the home to far too many American psychos, cowards, stupids, and fools.

This is how far we have gone down as a nation under Obama and his successful Marxist minions.

I’ll eat at a restaurant that flies the American flag (proudly) and respects 2nd Amendment Rights. Let the commies and well-be-targets eat at this woman’s place (aka shooting range for criminals).


64 posted on 08/02/2016 6:37:22 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: USCG SimTech

Chapter 7 - Complete liquidation.

Yes more likely, even a fellow liberal will not finance this
operation and throw good money after bad.


65 posted on 08/02/2016 6:40:09 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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To: Kaslin

My suggestion: Eat there once, and draw a gun on the napkin, and on the bill. Maybe, if you’re really artistic, chew some sandwich bread into the shape of one, too.


66 posted on 08/02/2016 6:45:55 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Adder
Serve the dawn food.

If bakers gotta bake she gotta serve

No way I would set foot in her restaurant. I wouldn't put a dime of my money into that establishment.

But I agree with your premise. If gays have to be serve, then gun owners should have to be served too.
67 posted on 08/02/2016 6:47:17 PM PDT by Ticonderoga34
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation; who knows what evil?

You would think reading things like this on Free Republic that no liberalism at all existed in states like Texas, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, or...Maine, and any that did exist was completely brought in by “outsiders”.

It isn’t so.


68 posted on 08/02/2016 6:52:21 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: rlmorel

It’s a combination of “native born” and people moving in from other states.

I have seen no shortage of gray-haired women here in Maine driving a Toyota Prius with an “OBAMA 2012” bumper sticker.


69 posted on 08/02/2016 7:03:49 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Hell No, DNC, We Won't Vote For Hillary!)
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To: disndat

from the looks of the interior it should be an easy conversion to a mosque


70 posted on 08/02/2016 7:10:15 PM PDT by snappahead (if your gonna be dumb, you better be tough.)
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To: snappahead
from the looks of the interior it should be an easy conversion to a mosque

And then it will be filled with guns and bombs. How ironic.

71 posted on 08/02/2016 7:14:44 PM PDT by disndat
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To: snappahead

Mosque was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the picture.


72 posted on 08/02/2016 7:17:04 PM PDT by Bikkuri ((...))
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To: Kaslin

“Is that a Baretta in your pocket?...


73 posted on 08/02/2016 7:22:02 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

That is true. True.

Frikking pox on them.


74 posted on 08/02/2016 8:13:35 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Kaslin

This deranged moonbat may have lost many customers but I’m sure she has gained one: Maine’s most famous leftist moonbat, Stephen King.


75 posted on 08/03/2016 1:07:39 AM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (Proud Islamophobe.)
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To: Charles Martel

I would pull out my NRA credit card before ordering ask ask “do you accept these”?


76 posted on 08/03/2016 2:43:57 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obamca loves America)
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To: shelterguy

So I guess the pink 9mm handgun I saw for sale in the local gun shop couldn’t hurt anyone - I mean pink is not a scary color ,right? I mean - pink is the color of flowers and unicorn horns - how could a pink gun hurt anyone?

(no /sarc tag big enough for this post)


77 posted on 08/03/2016 3:07:09 AM PDT by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: mupcat

Grace and Foreside Tavern in Falmouth


78 posted on 08/03/2016 5:23:13 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: 2banana

there is no difference. great point!


79 posted on 08/03/2016 5:25:29 AM PDT by uncitizen (Americanism NOT Globalism! - Trump)
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To: disndat
So this is an ad campaign.

I think so.

80 posted on 08/03/2016 5:26:24 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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