Guns VS Junk Food... Choose your poison wisely!
I just saw this article about Sonic... add to this Chile's, Chipotle, and Jack in the Box, all have anti-firearm "statements"... Not that I spend a lot in fast "food" establishments, but this opened my eyes to places I think I'll have to issue a "pass" on...
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So Sonic wants to tell you you can't carry a gun *in your own automobile*?
And I don't care how it makes you "feel", or how "insane" you may think it is...
The 2nd Amendment says that they cannot stop you from bringing arms into their establishments, *if they will allow you in without them*.
They can turn you away, but if you try to go back in without your weapon, and they let you in... you should be able to sue the living shit out of them for violating your 2nd Amendment rights.
The 1st Amendment specifies the federal government. The 2nd Amendment has no such specification; it's a blanket restriction.
"...shall not be infringed".
While moderns may think this insane (because even pro-gun people think, subliminally, that a gun-toter is a potential mass-murderer), it makes perfect sense. Imagine the tavern requiring you to leave your musket at home, or outside (if it's a wayside tavern on one of the many roads between villages), and then it, or the village it's in, is attacked by "red indians", or British regulars. Oops, can't defend ourselves, the tavern, or even the State, because we don't have our weapons in the tavern with us where we can get at them.
If the Luby's case didn't make this clear to people... nothing will.
Yeah, yeah, Objectivists scream property rights... but is property just a hunk of land, or is it coins, paper, clothing, pens, car keys... or any other property that a person might carry with them? In effect, you are saying that an individual must give up his own right to property if he walks into someone else's property, even if his intent is to trade value for value... the purpose of the property in question, after all?
If merely carrying a gun into an establishment violates their right to property... then so does merely wearing clothing.
Who here would support a restaurant that demanded its patrons strip naked before allowing entry?
Perhaps all the gun toters should walk by Sonic carrying signs proclaiming their intent to eat elsewhere. Hitting them in the revenues is the way to get attention and to get results.
Of course many gun toters have work to do while anti-gunners are unemployed.