Courtesy of Mother Jones:
Two videos posted on YouTube on May 19 by the San Antonio chapter of Open Carry Texas—since removed from public view but obtained by Mother Jones—show its armed members being refused service at both restaurants. The two companies have not made official statements on open carry but have since indicated that they are reviewing their policies. From the nervous and angry reactions of some patrons to comments from some of the gun activists themselves, it's not difficult to see why these spectacles haven't been winning many people over.
When a young woman approaches the group in Chili's and expresses her dismay, a guy with an assault rifle strapped across his back offers her a flyer. "Um actually, there's children here," she replies, "and you're a dumbass." As she walks away one member of the group comments mockingly, "Yes, I'm a dumbass," and then says of her, "must be Moms Demand Action," referring to the national gun reform group.
In the Sonic video, as the thwarted gun group lingers in an adjacent parking lot, one member says: "I just wish I had my kids in there when that one dumb chick come up and started rattin' her mouth."
Personally I think these inbred morons should keep right on showing up at restaurants with those long guns and their bellies hanging over their belts.
They might literally do more to usher in stricter gun control laws, than the recent mass shootings have managed to do.
Which, of course, is nothing.
Hey look, all these assholes are rich white dudes who don't understand what "rights" actually are.
ReplyDeleteShocker.
WTF? does this asshole have to do with politics? And on another note, looks like old Skankerella isn't welcome again.
ReplyDeleteDuck Dynasty Star Phil Robertson to Address GOP Conference
According to a recent announcement, Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson will join a number of high profile Republicans who will address the 2014 Republican Leadership Conference this week. The controversial subject of that reality show will join prominent GOP personalities ranging from Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus to Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
The RLC, which is being held in New Orleans this week, will feature a number of celebrity GOP politicians as well as the celebrity reality show star. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Ron Johnson (R-WI) will also be speaking at the conference.
But not every RLC speaker is a sitting politician. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a featured RLC speaker, recently embraced his role as a television personality. Robertson will also be joined on stage by another reality show host: Donald Trump.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/duck-dynasty-star-phil-robertson-to-address-gop-conference/
Other Speakers at the 2014 Republican Leadership Conference include Governor Phil Bryant, US Senator David Vitter; Donald Trump, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann and Allen West
(Notice: NO SARAH PALIN)
WTH? No Sarah Palin...she's officially become persona non grata. Time for her to start her own party or rejoin the AIP.
DeleteSo that's what they are down to, old white fart failed reality TV show freaks. Lovely.
DeleteYou know who else is not in evidence? Any woman but Bachmann, who is basically leaving Congress in disgrace. Where are all the rising female stars Reince is always crowing about? Yeah, right. The GOP has no war on women. They just don't think they are smart or clever enough to speak to the assembled white old men. We see through you, GOP...you are done.
DeleteThey got tired of the 'smell' when she was around. Never met her, but people that have say the stench is just putrid.
DeleteShe wasn't even invited to a meet up here in her own town. That says a lot.
DeletePhil Robertson? Is this the patriarch with boot in mouth disease?
DeleteOh, please, let it be televised and let him say something totally offensive and stupid.
Oh, please, oh, please, oh, please.
The Constitution does not guarantee the right to frighten, intimidate, menace, or tyrannize American citizens.
ReplyDeleteThese goons are clearly subpar, in character and intelligence.
Half of them look pregnant, with their bellies hanging over their belts (more pregnant than Sarah Palin looked in 2008, LOL). I would boycott any business that allowed these domestic terrorists on my property.
I would boycott them too. They come across as childish bullies.
DeleteWoman 'devastated' to be named by Santa Barbara shooter Elliot Rodger as motivation for killing spree, dad says
ReplyDelete... The woman’s father said it was Saturday morning when his 20-year-old daughter realized Rodger had made her part of his sick story.
“She’s devastated by this,” the dad said in a phone interview. “She doesn’t even remember this guy. . . . She’s always been the most delicate kid you’d ever want to meet. For him to call her a bully, this kid was really disillusioned.
“She was 10 years old,” the dad added. “He was two years older than her. He was in my son’s class. She was in the seventh grade and he was in eighth grade. . . . Can you imagine a 10-year-old kid bullying a 12-year-old? This little, petite girl bullying him?”
In his screed, Rodger called his crush an “evil bitch” who “teased and ridiculed” him and “wounded me deeply.”
“A group of popular seventh grade girls started teasing me, which hurt a lot,” he wrote.
“One of these girls was . . . a pretty blonde girl.”
Years later, despite red flags about his mental health and a visit from sheriff’s deputies on April 30, the college student went on to gun down two sorority sisters and kill four other people before apparently shooting himself in the head.
Path that killer Elliott Rodger took during his shooting rampage in Isla Vista, California. New York Daily News
“The world that I grew up thinking was bright and blissful was all over,” Rodger wrote of his treatment by the girl.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dad-daughter-devastated-named-elliot-rodger-manifesto-article-1.1805983#ixzz32wu1hM8n
That makes no sense. What 10 year old is in 7th grade?
DeleteMy very bright daughter was 10 when she was on the 7th grade.
DeleteHe's either got the ages wrong or the grades wrong.
DeleteThey were either both in elementary school at the time or older.
NRA response to UC-Santa Barbara massacre
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/27/1302363/-NRA-response-to-UC-Santa-Barbara-massacre
The ‘Twisted World’ Elliot Rodger Lived In
ReplyDelete...Rodger felt entitled to women, entitled to the sex he saw as women’s sole raison d’etre — as though a woman were a vending machine, and he’d paid his money but his bag of Funyuns had become stuck on its way out. He felt so entitled to women that the fact that he was a virgin registered to him as an injustice, an injustice worthy of murderous “retribution.” He believed — with the fervency of a zealot — that women had denied him something he was owed, and his fury was made lethal thanks to the ease with which anyone can amass an arsenal.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-twisted-world-elliot-rodger-lived-in
Sarah Palin Admits She is “Stupid on Steroids”
ReplyDelete...The most offensive and amazing thing is that Sarah Palin promotes her image as a gun enthusiast, and refers to a “gun-free” zone as “stupid on steroids.”
Yet whenever Sarah Palin appears at a public event, she insists that her audience be free of guns. Even in 2008 when McCain and Palin appeared together they would do so only in gun-free zones. Thus, Sarah Palin suggests that we would be “stupid on steroids” to protect children at school or movie-goesr from guns. Yet at Sarah Palin events she restricts the 2nd Amendment rights of her audiences.
http://malialitman.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/sarah-palin-admits-she-is-stupid-on-steroids/
Wishing violence on no one, but it's not hard to imagine a crazed, well-armed Screechy fan seeking to punish their queen for failing to lead the nation to a severe conservative utopia.
DeleteAt least that's how the direct-to-video trashy movie version would play it.
Business owners have rights to refuse service. And, in fact, they were not refused service, just told to leave their weapons outside.
ReplyDeleteLove the way these exhibitionists all retired to their shiny family sedans in in the car park- not a single truck to be seen. Like Sarah Palin: "I'm not a hunter, I just play one on TV."
ReplyDelete"You're a dumbass."
ReplyDeleteGold.
Pure gold.
Can you say, "Babe!"
(No violation of women's rights intended).
Gun stokers just so sad people are dissing them even though they are totting a honking great penis extender.
ReplyDeleteThese guys need the emotional thrill of intimidating someone. If they can get a member of the public to give them an excuse to go into a thees-mah-raights rant, all the better. Gun rights is just another arena to extended the bullying they've used since childhood to compensate for their fears and loneliness.
They are pathetic. And dangerous.
An angry muslim with a gun is a terrorist.
ReplyDeleteAn angry Native American with a gun is a savage.
An angry Afro-American with a gun is a corpse.
An angry white American with a gun is a patriot.
I love this! Keep repeating it!
DeleteWhat jerks. Most of them don't look like they need much to eat. What absolute jerks. If they come into any restaurant where I am, I will immediately tell the manager why I am leaving right away. It would be a good idea to start a trend, print up some cards to bring along to restaurants, "thanks for not allowing guns in your family restaurant."
ReplyDeleteI would not only tell the manager I was immediately leaving but that he could give the bill for my uneaten meal to the buffoons with the penis extenders. Let them pay to play.
DeleteI'm ashamed of so many of my fellow Texans. If they showed up and I was out eating somewhere, I'd get up and walk out! We have had some random shootings lately in the DFW area lately, someone shooting at people and even hitting some people off of overpasses. Not being safe to drive down the highway doesn't inspire much confidence. The damn NRA and other idiot fringe groups are helping destroy this country.
ReplyDeleteI'm a Texan. I could not watch the entire video. To top it off, voter turn out in Texas today was just abysmal. More people are talking about the Kim/Kanye wedding than our very important primary.
DeleteTEXASMEL
Apparently, a woman was "accidentally" shot today at a Walmart.
DeleteTexasMel
In all fairness, I'm sure they're frequently confused by many, many things.
ReplyDelete"Which of course is nothing!" Unfortunately, Gryphen, you are so right.
ReplyDeleteOur co-called representatives are the best the industry has been able to buy, and since far too many of the populace have bought into this testerone laden mythology, we cannot overwhelm their vote with ours.
A bar in Plano, Texas, is under fire after an employee scribbled a domestic violence "joke" onto a chalkboard at the establishment.
ReplyDeleteThe joke read: "I like my beer like I like my violence. Domestic."
Courtney Williams, who was at the bar, Scruffy Duffies, on Saturday night, posted a photo of the offending sign on the Facebook page of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. The image quickly spread across the Internet.
Before posting a photo of the sign, Williams complained to multiple managers about it, only to be told she was overly emotional and should "calm down."
"When I told him it was in extremely poor taste and that I’d appreciate it being taken down, he told me to calm down, and that if I hadn’t been so 'aggressive' the conversation would go better," she wrote.
The sign was eventually removed after Williams left the bar. When she later returned, Williams was refused entry. She chronicled the ordeal online later that night.
"The sign immediately struck me in the worst way," she wrote on her Facebook. "Not only did it dreg up some unpleasant memories in my life, but it struck a chord that this bar was condoning domestic violence as a joke and expressing that victims were no more important than the type of beer someone was drinking."
The bar, Scruffy Duffies, released a statement on Facebook in response to the incident, calling the sign offensive and pledging to investigate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/bar-domestic-violence-joke_n_5397927.html
Friends don't let friends drink domestic beer.
DeleteToday it's offensive but that night multiple managers said it wasn't and banned the complainant?
DeleteWalk it back all you like. Scruffy Duffy's is documented as misogynist.
Investigate? A euphemism for nothing is going to happen. They're just doing damage control until the furor dies down and people move on.
If groups of Afro- Americans attempted to protect and demonstrate their 2nd Amendment rights in this manner laws would be passed do quickly to prevent this. They would also be arrested on sight. What a stupid way to "demonstrate" you have rights.
ReplyDeleteHey Cherrie Ann, a black man was open carrying and filming this entire debacle. Have another listen to the video.
DeleteI realize that some people have to use guns to hunt for their food, but these types of open carry are a way different species. They are generally low IQ folks trying to prove a point, what point, I'm not sure. They sure do wear their stupidity on the sleeve for all to see, and they are hurting their movement way more than they are helping it.
ReplyDeleteMmmmm, yummy, buncha fatties with tattoos, oh, and guns, yeah, just gross on so many fronts. Roll those boys in flour and look for the wet spot!
ReplyDeleteI'd think that the person filming, Mr. Ebonics Man, might only be accepted by these white Texas rednecks because he's open carrying with them? Is he trying to be a white redneck? He needs to work on that accent for sure :-)
ReplyDeleteOne last comment, holy shit, look at the fat fucks eating at Chilis! Chilis is kind of amusing because a certain segment of the population acts like it's a "fine night of dining" but really, it's McDonald's and Arby's with a higher price tag(think Red Robin, Olive Garden or Red Lobster)! Their food is terrible, and not that expensive but knowing their demographic a night out at Chilis hits their wallet in the same way as a night at Simons or Marx. Then again, most of these people seem to dine with their children and places like this are friendly to kids so maybe that's why so many flock there because they can't afford babysitters.
ReplyDeleteMost fine dining establishments don't encourage patrons to bring children. That's what makes them 'fine dining establishments'.
the giggling man sounds a little unhinged -- reminds me of the Deliverance guys
ReplyDeleteOn the subject of guns/p*nis substitutes, Palin's favorite non-plumber has weighed in on the tragedy in Santa Barbara.
ReplyDeleteHe said this: "As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights."
Can you imagine? Sarah & McCain must be so proud to have introduced this mouth-breathing, ammosexual moron to America.
Oh, that little snippet should go viral. I'll bet the NRA just *loves* it.
DeleteUse that against every pro-gun nut fighting gun legislation and every GOP 'bagger running for office.
Ask the voters, is *this* what you want? Because that statement represents the Republican Party, their "family" values and what they stand for. It is the party of sucks to be you.
"I just wish I had my kids in there when that one dumb chick come up and started rattin' her mouth."
ReplyDeleteWhy did this guy want his kis there? To hide behind, or is he on the fast track of strapping a bomb on one of his kids back just like his fanatical brothers in the middle east?
Funniest part of all of this is that people act like Chili's is real food!
ReplyDeleteso I listened to the tape...arrested development is a VERY dangerous thing especially when packing....if someone else came along and started shooting at them they would wet their pants...
ReplyDelete45 states allow the open carry of properly holstered handguns. 30 of these states do not require a permit to open carry. So should Texas and Florida! Learn more at OpenCarry.org!
ReplyDeleteNo thanks gun nut. You do whatever you like, but if I see you with a gun on your hip I running the other way.
DeleteThe states may allow it, but that doesn't mean businesses should be forced to allow it.
DeleteIf a business finds it is losing customers and revenue for open carry nuts patronizing, they are within their rights to refuse. No shirt, no shoes, open carry, no service.
No business can be forced to allow these whackjobs on their premises. That is *THEIR* constitutional right.
About the only thing these idiots seem hungry for is attention, any attention. Looks like they have never missed a meal. What, exactly, does their possession of flyers have to do with anything? There's no law against open carrying fliers, last time I checked. But even if they're doing it legally, what's the outcome? Fear and Terror. And the macho men have the balls to call the mother with children out for belonging to any group they don't like.
ReplyDeleteWhat are they afraid of and paranoid over?
We hurt an Open Carry Group in Texas’ fee fees again and we feel just awful
ReplyDeletehttp://freakoutnation.com/2014/05/27/we-hurt-an-open-carry-group-in-texas-fee-fees-again-and-we-feel-just-awful/