Maine restaurant owner tells assault rifle supporters: Take your business elsewhere
Source: Portland Press Herald
For 12 years, Anne Verrill kept her politics out of her business.
But after this weekends massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Verrill could no longer stay silent. Late Tuesday, she went where most people now go to voice their opinions Facebook to share her thoughts on the latest mass shooting and the role of guns in American culture.
The backlash was swift and angry both on Facebook and Yelp, where many people post their opinions of restaurants.
On the Facebook pages of her two restaurants, Grace in Portland and Foreside Tavern in Falmouth, Verrill wrote, in part: 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.
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PJMcK
(22,056 posts)If the food and service are good, her businesses will thrive.
Cosmocat
(14,575 posts)She could be serving 5 star quality food on a value menu price and gun worshipers will never step foot in her establishment again, while crawling over broken class to eat cow $hit for $100 a plate as a joint named gun heaven ...
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)MidwestTech
(170 posts)i believe the point is gun humpers would rather crawl over broken glass to a joint called gun haven serving bovine refuse for $100 a plate, than eat 5 star food for bargain basement prices if they aren't allowed to bring their grilfr...er... guns.
rurallib
(62,465 posts)based on my reading of your post
LoverOfLiberty
(1,438 posts)nor do I support our crazy unfettered access to them, but I agree with you.
Keep business and politics separate.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Just curious how she will enforce it
drm604
(16,230 posts)But most people who own such weapons will boycott her restaurant so the statement will largely achieve its purpose.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Many states have passed laws that would support her, even though this isn't what they meant.
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)ripped off the bodies of 49 dead victims. She is not in fact hurting a single gun owner or in any way reducing the chances of another atrocity. In polite and thinking company she would be shunned...
drm604
(16,230 posts)We don't know her and we don't know her intentions. It's entirely possible that she's sincerely trying to make a statement.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)The 2016 GE is going to be a rout for the party of children's blood on their hands.
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Note the date...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022155570#post3
IronLionZion
(45,563 posts)gun humpers are a minority in most areas
TipTok
(2,474 posts)IronLionZion
(45,563 posts)Politicub
(12,165 posts)The increased sales of firearms is driven mainly by people who are adding more metal dicks to their arsenal.
Don't take my word for it. The facts:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/05/america-has-more-guns-in-fewer-hands-than-ever-before%E2%80%8B/
It's only a matter of time.
TipTok
(2,474 posts)... without referring to male genitalia is probably in the top 5 reasons gun rights continue to expand.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)I couldn't give two shits about what you or anyone else thinks of my language.
I and many others are finished with indulging the tender sensibilities of the shrinking pool of gun fanatics.
TipTok
(2,474 posts)We appreciate it...
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)mainer
(12,033 posts)I think that NRA types are more likely to go to Olive Garden or TGIF.
Her restaurant "Grace" has a reputation as a fine dining establishment -- and it's liberals who tend to be patrons of fine dining. And Portland Maine is about as blue an area as you can find.
Rocknrule
(5,697 posts)"She thinks children are more precious than guns?! Unamerican commie! Traitor! Go back to France! 2nd Amendment Uber Allies!"
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Because it's great for a restaurant to discriminate against people because of what they do in their private lives.
Blandocyte
(1,231 posts)means you support mentally ill people who shoot others. Yeah, that makes sense. But she's logical enough to run a business?
Blandocyte
(1,231 posts)she should've kept her politics out of her business. Thanks for making me feel like I should apologize for my legal hobby, busybody. My guitar has killed no one, just like my rifle has killed no one. If some lunatic kills someone using a guitar, will she make guitarists unwelcome, too?
Maybe she can make pitbull owners unwelcome. I hear pitbulls kill kids. Who knows what sorts of people with varying interests, races, religions, etc., she might find offensive and make unwelcome.