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.”
“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.”
If Portland wasn't in Maine... Maine would be a red state...Portlanders HATE LePage..
Hey, when people self appoint themselves for a boycott why disappoint them?
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).
Chapter 7 - Complete liquidation.
Yes more likely, even a fellow liberal will not finance this
operation and throw good money after bad.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mosque was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the picture.
“Is that a Baretta in your pocket?...
That is true. True.
Frikking pox on them.
This deranged moonbat may have lost many customers but I’m sure she has gained one: Maine’s most famous leftist moonbat, Stephen King.
I would pull out my NRA credit card before ordering ask ask “do you accept these”?
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)
Grace and Foreside Tavern in Falmouth
there is no difference. great point!
I think so.
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