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.
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.”
won’t be to target rich, the food sucks and the waitresses are about a friendly as the plague.
...and that goes double for the cops. No gun users are welcome!
Anyway Portland would be the only place in Maine this restaurant would survive.
Damn...not dawn...damn spellhelper
If, and that’s a big if, I ever go to Maine, I know of one place where I will not eat.
People from away would be surprised that the 3 northern New England states have a history of favorable gun rights, especially Vermont. Most likely this women who owns these establishments is a blow-in from a big city somewhere.
Exhibit #1 justifying repeal of the 19th Amendment
“may no longer enter either of my restaurants”
Sue under the BAKE THE CAKE law.
you could be $120,000 richer.
so you go in and eat then tell them AFTER you pay that you are a gun owner just to pizz them off
Thanks for the info. So this is an ad campaign.
“...and the waitresses are about as friendly as the plague.”
“Hi, I’m Tiffany and I’ll be your server this evening. Now before I tell you about our specials tonight, do you like guns?”
Then people who like guns should not go to that restaurant. There are plenty of other restaurants from which to choose.
Can this restaurant really afford to lose customers?
Well I do have a .40Smith MP Shield - will that do?
I didn’t give a dawn. I knew what you were trying to sap.
So that image over the bar is going to stop someone from walking in with an AR/AK and blasting the place?
Another snowflake.
“Why, yes. May I peruse your selection? 1911 was a fine vintage.”
Exactly.
A gun free restaurant called the “Sitting Duck”.
LOL
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