Posted on 06/16/2016 7:18:28 AM PDT by simpson96
A Portland restaurateur used her business’s Facebook page to speak her mind on assault weapons — inciting a backlash from gun rights advocates.
Anne Verrill, owner of Grace on Chestnut Street, and Foreside Tavern & Side Bar in Falmouth, published the post on Wednesday, along with a photo of an assault rifle similar to the one used in the Orlando massacre.
“I have spent 12 years, intentionally, not being political on this page… Let me be clear, this is not a political issue,” she wrote, according to several reports. “This is a human rights issue. If you own this gun, or you condone the ownership of this gun for private use, you may no longer enter either of my restaurants, because the only thing I want to teach my children is love.”
Verrill, who later deleted the post, told BDN Portland that she stood by her comments, but said she was only addressing a specific firearm.
“I am in no way, shape or form trying to lump a group of people and tell them I will not serve them,” Verrill said. “I spoke very specifically about a specific gun, that was specifically used to terrorize a group of people who are now all dead.”
The message prompted many commenters on Facebook to criticize the post, though some did defend her. The restaurant also received a number of negative reviews, citing the post.
“Big old target now painted on your business now that criminals know you and your patrons do not carry protection,” one person said.
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We’ll be ordering the halibut with fingerling potatoes, a nice white wine and, btw, we own 14 assault rifles so will that hold up our appetizer?
That’s as ridiculous as another posted article that gun sales to gays is rising. What else am I supposed to declare before I can buy something? Next no Baptists will be allowed to buy milk and eggs at the grocery store or Jewish people can’t buy shoes or Mormons can’t drive cars.
Gun-Free Zones are Safe Zones for terrorists and criminals.
I don’t know about Stupidest Person on the Planet. Seems par for the course for leftists, liberals, progressives, and other such slime-for-brains that can actually vote
“love” doesn’t prevent violence.
Smart. Real smart.
Well, la te freakin' da. Only fools and their money dine there. Bet her portions are teeny tiny. That's my entire month's food budget.
It’s beautiful, but she’s a fool.
Uh, what? That's exactly what she IS doing. Now, why would she make such a blatantly ridiculous statement? Oh. Yeah, the wedding cake thing. Funny how quickly that came back to bite them in the ass.
Actually, I said she was today’s stupidest person. Tomorrow it will be back to Mika Brezinski.
I wonder how many owners of ‘assault’ weapons have actually ever eaten there...
LOL!
Gee...I wonder why?
So, Ms. Verrill, if I have a with a gun with a pretty looking polished wooden stock, and without one of those scary looking clips that drop down, could I eat at your restaurant?
Show up, get denied entrance then sue them under existing “wedding cake” discrimination law
Ha! Ha! All you SIG MCX owners just got burned.
Fortunately, I just own ARs, so I’m still welcome there.
Post signs outside her property line with a big arrow pointing in and saying “CAUTION: This establishment and the white woman owning it are undefended and will not be aided by non-EMS personnel in an emergency.”
Watch just how fast she changes her little mind on guns.
Silly, pervert wedding cakes are protected under the BOATI emanating penumbra of the Constitution. Guns, on the other hand, are nowhere mentioned.
She is really dumb, though. I guess the bad old gun takes over people's brains and turns them into homicidal maniacs. Yep, that's it. /s
No. Patriotic Americans are not a protected class under federal government law.
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