Chipotle: Guns not welcome here

[JettaKnight]

IBATM

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I need more coffee.

 

[JettaKnight]

Open carried in chipotle today...got my normal wave and hows it going treatment...guess i'm just a regular.

Or just not a jacka$$.

I can't believe what I am reading. You are part of the problem. You are stating you would point your firearm at an individual for clearly posing for a picture? No, he shouldn't have his hand on it, and if you saw this and then put your hand on yours, no problem. But pointing your firearm? That sir is irresponsible. There have been others that have stated this, and at the same time believe they are more responsible. You are willing to point your firearm at someone posing for a picture, yet this short guy is the idiot.

This isn't just a statement at you, but to everyone that thinks the same as you or have stated it.

If so, then you might have lost touch with reality, which may be the case if you think walking into businesses with a plastic SKS at low ready is acceptable behavior.

You might want to re-read MG's post.

 

[bingley]

Guy walks into my shop with a rifle at low ready. I'm thinking it's going to be a mass shooting, or at least a robbery, possibly followed by execution. I can see a few ways this can play out:

1. People in the shop take a chance. They watch until they know this guy is a moron. However, if the guy turns out not to be a moron, everyone dies.

2. People in the shop don't take a chance. They draw and aim, because the guy will have the drop on them if they don't do that.

 

[Bill of Rights]

Aren't the corporate owners of pizza-hut the same *******s who fired an employee for shooting an armed robber in the GFZ he worked at, about a year ago? I recall it was "local"--kokomo or muncie? That should move them to the top of the boycott list.

Pizza Hut is owned by the same folks who own KFC and Taco Bell... "Yum foods". And yes, they are ardently anti-self-defense.
If you work for them and carry while working, and it's found out, you don't work for them anymore.

Of course, if you work for them and don't carry, and someone robs and shoots you to eliminate the witness(es).... you don't work for them anymore then, either.

The difference is that in the first case, you can find another job. Most employers do require you to be alive prior to hiring you.

Blessings,
Bill

 

[iChokePeople]

Most employers do require you to be alive prior to hiring you.

Blessings,
Bill

Only because they want the pleasure of sucking the life out of your body, then stealing your soul.

 

[SteveM4A1]

If so, then you might have lost touch with reality, which may be the case if you think walking into businesses with a plastic SKS at low ready is acceptable behavior.

You might want to re-read MG's post.

Where did I ever say walking around with a firearm at the low ready is acceptable behavior? He shouldn't have touched the thing, we all know that. However, when there are those on this board that believe pointing your firearm at someone for posing for a picture with their firearm at the low ready is acceptable behavior, I have to question the mindset. If you see someone with a firearm at the low and ready, and you then point your firearm at that person, you are not helping the situation or us as gun owners. The responsible action would be to present your firearm at the low and ready until you gain more information. Obviously there is a lot of variables that come into play into a situation such as this, but we can use the photo to gain insight into some of those variables.

I find it quite humorous that there seems to be many on these boards that would point their firearm at an individual for having their's at the low and ready, but would condemn police action doing the same thing.

 

[Bobby]

Gee, I 'wonder' why Chipotle's made the decision it did?

Don't know about other forum members, but if I walked in, not having any idea of what these guys were doing, and the first thing I saw was the shorter idiot (right) walking around Chipotle's like that, he'd have at least one gun pointed at him. That rifle is loaded, and 'at the ready', in hand.

This isn't a 'game', and it isn't "Jackass - The Movie". IF these idiots were 'just making a political statement', this was completely irresponsible. IF they were NOT, it was even more irresponsible.

This stupidity has now been perpetrated at least at Starbucks, Cracker Barrel, and Chipotle's. And it's worked out the same way each time. Which does 'harm' responsible gun owners. PLUS, they're intentionally alienating the very people from whom they're claiming to seek support.

Does anyone have "the RIGHT!!" to do this? No, they do not. No, they don't. No. They don't.

Would you still hold this opinion even with the knowledge that the Dallas Police Department was escorting these men around not only at the rally but also around Chipotle as well? A fact CONVENIENTLY left out by Moms Demand Action in pushing Chipotle for a weapons ban. Yes, I personally wouldn't have struck a dumb pose with my rifle at the ready like those two men did. This doesn't change the fact that MDA took ONE picture and made up a controversy where NONE existed before. Moms Demand Action is the real problem here NOT Open Carry Texas. If MDA had minded their own business, we wouldn't be here today.


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[Tanfodude]

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I need more coffee.

I better ask the man? In before all the menace? I bought all the munchies? I'll bake all the mayonnaise?

 

[ATM]

I better ask the man? In before all the menace? I bought all the munchies? I'll bake all the mayonnaise?

In Before

...me.

 

[WestSider]

I just don't get these guys that want to carry their AR15's into businesses. What is the point?? I agree with the other poster, I'm pro-gun and I would be a little freaked out at a guy carrying his rifle around a restaurant. I wouldn't say or do anything to him but you better bet I would be keeping my eye on him.

 

[foszoe]

I just don't get these guys that want to carry their AR15's into businesses. What is the point?? I agree with the other poster, I'm pro-gun and I would be a little freaked out at a guy carrying his rifle around a restaurant. I wouldn't say or do anything to him but you better bet I would be keeping my eye on him.

Depends on how he is holding it.

 

[bwframe]

Depends on how he is holding it.

How does one safely hold an AR while moving around and dining in a crowded restaurant?

 

[Bill of Rights]

How does one safely hold an AR while moving around and dining in a crowded restaurant?

Slung over one's shoulder, with constant muzzle awareness. Oh, and without ammo to accompany it.

In all seriousness (which the above kinda was, but kinda not) I've only guesswork. It's not something I plan to do. My rifles have other purposes.

Blessings,
Bill

 

[Redhorse]

If anything, people should be mad at both the guys asking for attention with the ARs and MDA. I know I'll probably get some heat for calling out those guys as idiots but that's exactly what they are. Carrying a holstered firearm openly is completely different from making a scene by walking in with an AR strung across their back. It just gives the anti's something to work with making gun owners seem irrational because in all practicality, the vast, vast majority of open carriers are not going to leave their homes with an AR on their backs everyday. Unless of course we're facing an impeding invasion or the zombie apocalypse breaks out, both of which are extremely unlikely to occur thus making the said idiots' actions above seem irrational and furthermore abetting the other side's argument.

 

[Vigilant]

The only thing these asinine "demonstrations" are doing, is making OCers filthy rich! After all, if you truly stick to your guns per se, before long, there will not be anyplace to spend your money! So I guess that's a win, you'll be rich!

 

[Viper1973]

If I had my guess... I'd say these are actually anti-gun folks working to paint all of us in a bad light to further their agenda. I'm pro-gun and open carry... but... a long gun... REALLY! If they were open carrying pistols it would make sense. Open carrying long guns makes no rational sense to me unless your actually hunting or addressing a threat.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

If I had my guess... I'd say these are actually anti-gun folks working to paint all of us in a bad light to further their agenda.

I remember all the leftists that supported Occupy Wall Street saying that all the bad events and incidents that happened there were actually right-wing plants.

It was infuriating how stupid they sounded when they said that, because we all knew how wrong they had to be.

So... calling these people anti-gun plants... I don't know how I feel about that, because I'm sure from the outside looking in, it sounds absurd.

 

[SteveM4A1]

Do loud bigots hurt our First Amendment rights as well?

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Do loud bigots hurt our First Amendment rights as well?

Yes. Even accidentally let some racial slur or epithet towards homosexuals slip at some places of employment and see what happens to you.

 

[SteveM4A1]

Yes. Even accidentally let some racial slur or epithet towards homosexuals slip at some places of employment and see what happens to you.

Places of employment are different. My question still stands: Does someone screaming offensive language make it more likely that laws will be passed that hurt your First Amendment rights?