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.”
Her lack of self-awareness is comical.
If she truly doesn't want to see "evil and hate", she had better cover up all of her own mirrors...
I'd sign the credit card receipt, then add my NRA member number and a bunch of little cartoon guns around the edges. Maybe have a small self-inking rubber stamp made up with that stuff on it, just to torment this fool.
Since she did this after a gay Muzzie shot up his gay bar, is she a lezbo?
No name of the restaurants she owns...I live in this state....I would dog their phones out ....stupid moonbat....alot up here who never recognize (but secretly love the fact we are 97-98% white) ....so tell me what I don’t know....These people are unreachable and hate the Governor for treating them like the whiney little fks they are.
What’s the name of the place, I must have missed it? Thanks.
Maybe the restaurants’ Yelp ratings could be given assistance?
From the facebook link it looks like the name is Grace Restaurant and it does have some connection to the gay community if what is in the comments mean anything
I never ask permission for a right...1911A ...GOT TWO OR SO ....never asked a soul....SO being the key word. Use your best judgement.
The better-known of her two restaurants is the Foreside Tavern in Falmouth, a few miles NE of Portland. Caters to snobs...like Massholes.
“The stupid runs deep up there in Maine.”
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I live in Maine, and no it does not.
Portland is moonbat central; lots of transplants from Massachusetts.
The rest of Maine is more rural and is strong Second Amendment country. Everyone is armed.....lots of firepower including AR-15s and other semi-automatic rifles.
We’ve had Open Carry for years and Constitutional Carry took effect last October.
This moonbat woman in Portland would be laughed at in most of Maine.
Liberalism is a mental illness. Repeat: Liberalism is a mental illness.
Oh fer cryin’ out loud!
I don’t understand how the restaurant owner will KNOW which of her customers do or do not like guns. Are they going to have to take a quiz when they walk in the door?
Chapter 7 - Complete liquidation.
Teaching her/his children love. What is love? Sometimes it is word used to control others. What is the opposite of love? It’s NOT hate. The opposite of love is indifference.
I should have clarified.....The stupid runs deep in that case.
I’m from Minnesota, well known for an overabundance of unbelievable political stupidity. Yet if you get out of the Minneapolis St Paul area it is filled with “normal” people.
LOL!!
I guess they reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.
I just wish they would build one of their restaurants close enough I could boycott them. Maine is just too far away to boycott.
http://bearingarms.com/jenn-j/2016/06/17/read-portland-restaurant-owners-idea-grace/
“As many of us have felt compelled to do this week, Anne Verrill, Maine restaurateur and owner of the Foreside Tavern in Falmouth and Grace restaurant in Portland, Maine decided to make make her opinion known via a bold statement in the wake of the shooting in Orlando, FL.”
Yelp reviews of restaurants.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/grace-portland-2
http://www.yelp.com/biz/foreside-tavern-and-side-bar-falmouth
There are, quite simply, no words to characterize this level of utter stupidity.
“I don’t understand how the restaurant owner will KNOW which of her customers do or do not like guns. Are they going to have to take a quiz when they walk in the door?”
Just open carry into the restaurant. It’s completely legal to do in Maine.
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