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Restaurant Refuses Service To Soldier For Carrying Firearm
Lex18 ^ | Sep 28, 2015

Posted on 09/29/2015 12:19:40 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows

Over the weekend, a soldier with the National Guard was told to leave his gun outside of the Nicholasville Waffle House or he wouldn’t be served. The situation is now getting national attention.

Billy Welch said that he stopped at the Waffle House Sunday morning for breakfast. He was in his Army National Guard uniform and had his gun holstered to his side. After ordering his food, Welch said that a waitress signaled for him to come over.

"I got up and I walked over to them, asked them how they were doing and stuff, and they said I'd have to take my firearm outside,” said Welch.

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The owner of the Nicholasville Waffle House made this statement, “For many years we have had a “No Firearms” police in place in our restaurants. We continue to believe this is the best policy for the safety of our customers and associates.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; kentucky
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To: Slings and Arrows

I wonder if Waffle House requires police officers to leave their firearms outside the restaurant.


61 posted on 09/29/2015 2:11:32 PM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: NorthMountain
1) "No Guns" means "No Guns". I'm glad they don't make special exceptions for government employees.

I'll bet they do.

62 posted on 09/29/2015 2:12:33 PM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: Norm Lenhart

No liberal would be caught dead at Waffle House. Only Starbucks for them.

Where did this take place? I’m disappointed because I have a soft spot for WH and always jump for joy traveling south when the first billboard pops up!


63 posted on 09/29/2015 2:18:50 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: drfeelgood

Agreed.


64 posted on 09/29/2015 2:21:17 PM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: WayneS

They didn’t make a special exception for this particular government employee.


65 posted on 09/29/2015 2:27:43 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Criminals have the right to choose between those establishments allowing guns and those that are gun free.


66 posted on 09/29/2015 2:28:21 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: LouAvul

“Yeah, Kentucky. The same bunch of retards that gave us Mitch McConnell.’
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You shore paint with a wide brush, dontcha? Careful you don’t get no paint on youself.


67 posted on 09/29/2015 2:31:18 PM PDT by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

They sure can’t exclude based on race or sexual orientation.


68 posted on 09/29/2015 3:00:53 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: NorthMountain

Do you think they make police officers leave their sidearms in the patrol car?


69 posted on 09/29/2015 3:34:40 PM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
And yet it is private property and an owner, in theory, has a right to exclude people he wants from his property.(Yes, yes I know this right of exclusion has been eroded years ago.) At any rate we have an apparent conflict between two rights; i.e. “Right to Carry,” and private property with its “right to exclude.”

You are correct and I support the owners right to do this though I abhor his actions.

All gun owners also have the right to never, ever, under any circumstances give this fool one penny of patronage.

When I am in a restaurant and other patrons are armed as I , I feel safe!!!!!!

70 posted on 09/29/2015 3:43:21 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

There is no “right to carry” there is a right to posses fire arms and a law via the BOR that prohibits Congress from limiting that right. Then we have private property which is also a right. What’s the conflict? Your right to bear arms is in no way impeded by a business owner denying you entry unless somehow eating at a Waffle house is a constitutionally protected activity.

For me, I do not shop or dine were firearms are prohibited. And I fully support the owners free expression of their idiotic beliefs.


71 posted on 09/29/2015 4:03:32 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: papertyger

Wow, we obviously live on different planets


72 posted on 09/29/2015 4:31:44 PM PDT by falcon99
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To: Slings and Arrows

The response I have for these people these days is one of the following:

1). “Are you doing this because I am gay?”

2) “Are you doing this because I’m transgender ?”

This flips the scales in my favor. Today you do not have to really be either you just have to identify that way at that moment. It really stops them in their tracks. I’m white and if I thought I could do it I would add the “Are you doing yhis because I’m a transgender black homosexual?” That’s like winning the trifecta at the Kentucky derby.


73 posted on 09/29/2015 4:46:12 PM PDT by wgmalabama
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To: Slings and Arrows

Hate to say it (some FReepers go ballistic), but boycott sounds in order.. and a few letters to the establishment as to why... Hopefully they will change the policy...


74 posted on 09/29/2015 4:50:35 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: Slings and Arrows

+1


75 posted on 09/29/2015 4:51:48 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: Slings and Arrows
If they are that stupid I'd worry about food poisoning. Smart decision to leave!
76 posted on 09/29/2015 4:56:20 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: FreedomPoster
"Heck, there are some Waffle Houses where I think it is policy that if you go in after midnight and before about 6AM, and you don’t have a firearm, they issue you one."

Oh, Gosh!!! ….Spit my coffee all over my waffle!

77 posted on 09/29/2015 5:49:56 PM PDT by cookcounty ("I was a Democrat until I learned to count" --Maine Gov. Paul LePage)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
And yet it is private property and an owner, in theory, has a right to exclude people he wants from his property.

Would that be similar to the baker and florist who attempted to exclude queer cake and flower consumers?

78 posted on 09/29/2015 5:50:15 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Just what is the difference between a "centrist democrat" and a "moderate republican?")
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To: Slings and Arrows

The Waffle Houses in my state allow concealed carry. In fact, an armed robber got his face shot off by a CC customer. The crook got bullets with his waffles, and didn’t even leave a tip. The County Sheriff tagged it a good kill.


79 posted on 09/29/2015 6:15:39 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Slings and Arrows
Waffle House, not Huddle House.

Thanks, I am forever getting those two mixed up for some reason. It doesn't help that they are right across the street from each other here and a Waffle King not far away.

80 posted on 09/29/2015 6:54:57 PM PDT by LowOiL ("Let us do evil that good may come"? ....condemnation is just - Romans 3:8)
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