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.”
Sounds like a target rich environment for a madman.
At least criminals know where they can rob and kill without worrying about getting shot by a victim.
now real serious criminals know exactly where there’s a soft target in town
stupid move, restaurant!
very very stupid
You're not fighting anything except your own mental illness.
The Luby’s Cafeteria of Maine...good luck, < rhymes with “witch” >
I guess they have signs? Do they ask before you order?
How is this different than refusing to bake a cake?
The stupid runs deep up there in Maine.
I have a very nice Ruger #1 7 mag with a beautiful walnut stock. Since it is not black and scary it could never hurt anyone, right?
I also have a M-1 Garand. No scary black stock, perfectly harmless.
Your kids may learn about love but they will also get a good education about Chapter 11. But then again most restaurant owners learn about that without alienating their customers.
I’m wondering how this is different from some gay couple mincing into a bakery and being told they gonna have to wiggle on down the street and find another sugar maker?
Boycott her into the ground. She wants no discussion - it’s her way or nothing, giving 100% advantage to criminal murderers. Totalitarian bitch.
Boycott her.
“I’ll have the roast beef with a side of ‘Glock M&P’...oops!”
Serve the dawn food.
If bakers gotta bake she gotta serve.
If evil and hate boycott her restaurants???
See how inane the liberal thought process is???
To her, by definition, you are evil and hateful if you support the 2nd amendment. There can be no discussion of the nuances of the gun control debate, such as issues of licensing or concealed carry or issues of background checks. No none of that can be discussed. She’s right and everyone else is evil.
That’s how liberals think.
What a (fill in the blank with an obscenity).
I wonder if she considers ISIS evil. I wonder if she calls a space a spade with Muslim terror and will call that by its rightful name.
Probably not. But to nimnods like her, being in favor of our 2nd amendment rights makes one evil. You don’t even have to own a gun just have to believe in people’s rights, and you are evil in her mind.
Liberals rarely call anyone or any belief evil. This is very telling.
Yes, because not having a firearm worked out so well for the Pulse club patrons...
She will be liable for everyone hurt in her restaurant because she disarmed all of them first and gave them zero security protection.
This has been out for a while. The site was a homosexual bar and dance club for a while, do not know whether it still is.
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