Sonic. Chipotle. Chili's. Starbucks. Wendy's. Jack in the Box. Applebee's. What do these restaurant chains have in common? Well each of them used to have no problem with law-abiding gun owners carrying their handguns, concealed or open, into their establishments. But currently, all of them have changed their policies and barred firearms on their premises either in Texas or nationwide thanks to a small but destructive group of squirrels known as "Open Carry Texas", whose members seem to get off on carying long guns into local businesses and yelling "Hey, look at us!" while snapping pictures and shooting video until the businesses react to the unfavorable attention and just ban firearms on their property. Because of their actions and their boorish behavior, restaurant chain after restaurant chain that heretofore never had a problem with open or concealed carry is now banning firearms. But these window-licking toads show no sign of knocking it off or taking a break and they apparently plan to keep doing this dumb shit until they've got every business in the state--or America--banning guns. And if that's not accomplishment enough, now they want to publicly lock horns with the NRA, which is trying to rein them in and get them to act like mature adults. It's official: Open Carry Texas has become to gun owners what the Westboro Baptist Church is to Christians.Political Incorrectness, and the attempt to use "In Your Face" confrontations to 'educate' folks that Right To Keep And Bear Arms issues are something that they need to 'get use to' have come full circle.
I originally wrote of my distaste for this kind of confrontational RKBA activisim on May 07, 2014, and not-everybody who reads my 'stuff' agreed that it was A Good Idea gone Wrong: so a couple of days later I explained that this controntationalism (yes, I just made this word up) could have wide-ranging consequences for the RKBA movement and the NRA.
It's one thing to be a cranky ol' Curmudgeon; it's another to be a cranky ol' Curmudgeon who was right.
Eventually, the NRA took issue with the manner in which "Open Carry Texas" chose to make their point, and then even Texas and Fox News noted that "this isn't how we make our point".
One more point, and then I'll shut up.
"An Armed Society is a Polite Society".
*Robert Heinlein*
If what you do .... how you act, the way you conduct yourself as a Second Amendment Advocate doesn't support his concept .. you are doing something wrong.
Stop it!
That's all I have to say about this.
1 comment:
A bit of analysis would show that these restaurants may just be anti-gun, period. All they had to do was just ban open carry, if that was their problem, instead they banned all guns. Also, the fact is that Texas does not have a law against open carry of long guns. I believe the law dates back to the end of the civil war.
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