Restaurant bans AR-15 backers
A Maine restaurant owner is banning owners of AR-15s and those who support them.
In a Facebook posting, Anne Verrill explained why she was banning some gun owners from her Foreside Tavern & Side Bar in Falmouth and Grace restaurant in Portland.
“I have spent 12 years, intentionally, not being political on this page,” Verrill wrote on the Grace Facebook page. “Let me be clear, this is not a political issue. 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.”
…I cannot, in good conscience, accept anyone inside of my restaurants who believes that this is OK,” she said.
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halfwayin June 16th, 2016 at 14:12
These are just a small example of the consequences of the repubs and NRA pig headedness inability to compromise on anything.
It is going to get worse folks. When the smoke clears we will be lucky to be able to buy cap pistols and we will have the righty’s to thank.
An American in Canada June 16th, 2016 at 15:17
I don’t agree with this. It would be the same argument used by the right against gay people.
veggiedude June 16th, 2016 at 15:26
She says she is doing it for human rights. Isn’t the rights of gays also a human rights issue?
whatthe46 June 16th, 2016 at 16:39
What?
An American in Canada June 16th, 2016 at 16:55
The argument that they want to keep their kids away from something.
whatthe46 June 16th, 2016 at 17:13
I don’t know how for the love of GOD, you can’t tell the difference.
An American in Canada June 16th, 2016 at 17:28
Explain it to me then. Seems like discrimination to me, based on the values that these people want to teach their children. I can see Christian wackos trying to use the same argument against Muslims, and gay people. Either way, it’s wrong. The owner isn’t talking about people trying to bring these weapons into the restaurant. That would be an understandable thing to ban.
“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”
Personally, I think the AR-15 needs to go away along with many other types of guns.
Are you really going to start banning people who don’t think like you?
bpollen June 17th, 2016 at 05:46
Seems like discrimination to me
Sure, you’re right… and this is too!
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An American in Canada June 17th, 2016 at 09:14
You really comparing safety issues with denying someone service because they like something? Again, I’m not talking about banning guns in their restaurant. That would be fine.
bpollen June 17th, 2016 at 15:10
They are excluding people based on their attire. If that’s not discrimination, excluding others who are not a protected class is not discrimination. It’s very simple – businesses can refuse service to virtually anybody – but there are LAWS that protect certain groups from discrimination. Politics ain’t protected, positions on the 2nd Amendment ain’t protected – some restaurants even exclude you if you aren’t wearing a tie. Show me the non-tie wearing anti-discrimination laws. Or the “you can’t exclude slobbering drunks” anti-discrimination laws.
bpollen June 17th, 2016 at 05:43
“…because the only thing I want to teach my children is love.”
Doesn’t appear to be what she said at ALL.
Amersham46 June 16th, 2016 at 17:36
An American in Canada , did Ted go home
bpollen June 17th, 2016 at 05:41
But gun owners or sympathizers are not a protected class and there is no anti-discrimination law anywhere in the country that protects them.
An American in Canada June 17th, 2016 at 09:13
So if I told you that if you like gay people or have gay friends, you’re not allowed in my bar, would that be okay? I’m not discriminating against gays coming in but people who think about gay people. Is that okay?
bpollen June 17th, 2016 at 15:04
What part of “protected class” so confused you?
There are no anti-discrimination laws for People Who Like People – Gay People, That Is. What that means, ex-pat, is that excluding them isn’t illegal. Do I need to describe the difference between “legal” and “OK?”
An American in Canada June 17th, 2016 at 15:12
“Excluding them isn’t illegal.”
Exactly. Do you think that’s okay? I’m an Atheist, also not a protected class. Okay to keep me out of somewhere because I don’t believe in God?
I don’t think you get my point. When you start discriminating against people for their thoughts, it’s a huge slippery slope that the wack job right will surely take advantage of. They will find loopholes to the protected class laws to weasel their hate and bigotry into society.
bpollen June 17th, 2016 at 15:26
No, it’s you that’s missing the point. This is well within her legal rights as a business owner. If you think that they should have no rights to exclude anybody, feel free to harangue your Congress-critter for a “Absolutely No Denial Of Service” bill.
I can exclude people that vociferously disagree with from my home. I don’t at all see how that is a bad thing, or some slide down a slippery slope. But I have no right to that in my business? Pshaw.
Suzanne McFly June 16th, 2016 at 16:20
Her heart is in the right place but how can you know how they feel unless you ask every person who comes into your restaurant?
whatthe46 June 16th, 2016 at 16:39
She will be able to tell the difference because the wackos will be the ones outside bitching.
Amersham46 June 16th, 2016 at 17:34
Armed and wearing masks
DogsRgoodpeople June 16th, 2016 at 20:23
She’s just attracting the nuts.
bpollen June 17th, 2016 at 05:39
I’d like to visit her establishment, but the commute would kill me.
William June 17th, 2016 at 09:02
It’s of course purely symbolic, as she has no way of knowing what if any weapons a patron may have at home in their gun cabinet, or in the case of die-hard NRA members, the toddlers playpen.