Concealed-carry permit holders have been allowed to bring guns into N.C. restaurants serving alcohol for months now, stirring controversy among interest groups on both sides of the debate.
And now, bars are caught in the crossfire.
For many Chapel Hill bartenders, the Oct. 1 implementation of the law hasn’t had much of an effect on their business. At least three have posted signs forbidding guns on the premises and some Chapel Hill bars have banned weapons verbally.
Still, the signs have become political tools for interest groups in the gun debate.
Gail Neely, executive director of gun-control organization North Carolinians Against Gun Violence, started a campaign called “Ask Before You Eat,” which included compiling a list of N.C. restaurants that ban firearms, allowing patrons to thank those establishments.
But Neely said the list was taken off the group’s website when the tactic backfired — restaurant owners were being harassed by members of gun-rights organization Grass Roots North Carolina.
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"Harassed," eh? Would that be the kind of "harassment" that involves somebody politely disagreeing with you? Or the kind of "harassment" that involves faked, fraudulent, hoaxed "threats" like the race-baiters are fond of employing?
ReplyDeleteAll that aside, I am perfectly prepared to grant these business owners the freedom they would deny everyone else--the freedom to choose. It's up to them to decide if the want to discriminate against gun owners, a large, growing segment of the productive class, in order to pander to gun grabbers, a small, noisy group of collectivist parasites. May the Invisible Hand smite their profits and lay waste to their bottom line until they learn to respect the rights of their fellow man.
Smite away. :)
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