Olive Garden, just being one of them.

[Tanfodude]

Mo. cop kicked out of Olive Garden because of duty gun

 

[nakinate]

Dupe
https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...-city-police-officer-asked-leave-because.html

 

[chipbennett]

FTA:

“It's been an incredibly difficult day for our brother, and our entire family. All we ever ask is to be treated fairly and with the same respect to due anyone else. When we are treated poorly because of our chosen occupation, it hurts,” Lemon wrote in another statement to Facebook.


“It's not okay to treat law enforcement poorly. We deserve, and have earned, the same level of respect due to each and every member of society.”

There are two problems here:

1. An Olive Garden franchise discriminating against someone merely exercising a natural right in a manner that harms no one.

2. The police officer who was asked to leave is not apparently taking issue with someone being asked to leave a restaurant for carrying a firearm. Rather, the police officer is taking issue with police officers not being treated with "equal respect", which, in this context, really means that the police officer is asking to be treated more equally than those not in a uniform.

If the franchise asks all would-be patrons carrying firearms to leave, then the police officer was not being treated differently or unfairly, merely because he was in uniform and the carried firearm in question was his duty firearm. The real problem is refusing service to someone for carrying a firearm.

(And for the people who will scream about private-property rights: under the equal protection clause (i.e. there is no such thing as a "protected class"), and the SCOTUS-invented "right of public accommodation", businesses cannot discriminate against law-abiding people who lawfully carry firearms.)

 

[wizardfitz]

Its time to start letting them know with our wallets. Dont just not go , stop in , ask to see the manager and hand him one of the many no guns = no money cards. Thats what i do

 

[churchmouse]

Dupe
https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...-city-police-officer-asked-leave-because.html