Last year, Starbucks asked customers to stop carrying guns in their locations because people walked in with rifles slung over their shoulders. Last week, Jack in the Box asked customers to stop carrying guns in their locations because people walked in with rifles slung over their shoulders. This week, Chipotle asked customers to stop carrying guns in their locations because people walked in with rifles slung over their shoulders.
Are we seeing a pattern here, folks? Are we really that obtuse? This isn’t civil activism; this is a malicious sort of attention whoring that hurts the very cause these dinks claim to support.
And they have the audacity to pretend they don’t even get it. This isn’t happening because of some culture war. It’s happening because people can’t show simple discretion and manners. They get a picture to show to their friends on social media, and the anti-gun groups get to chalk up a very public victory.
Frankly, if I saw this going on in a restaurant, I wouldn’t eat there either.
This needs to stop. The only “awareness” it raises is that gun owners are disruptive, selfish nut jobs. We need to single these people out, and we need to ostracize them.
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These guys want to roll the clock back to the 1950’s, or perhaps even the Old West, when `Muricans were “free.” However, they might be surprised to hear that there has been no point in history when walking into a restaurant with a rifle, or even a handgun, in plain view was accepted. Not in 1880, not in 1950, and not today. I think it’s another symptom of lead in the water.
I am a definite supporter of the 2nd Amendment and believe in the right to carry. If I walked into a place where these 2 yahoos were with their rifles I would leave. Pistol on the hip not a big deal for me but a long gun makes no sense. These two fit the typical depiction of gun lovers as seen through the eyes of the anti-gun crowd. Poor decision that could has caused the appropriate response from society.