Restaurant with anti-gun policy saved by a gun
Oh, the irony.
The manager of an Atlanta restaurant, Taco Mac, stopped an armed robbery Sunday morning by firing his own gun at the armed robber. What makes this story ironic is that the CEO of the company that owns this particular Taco Mac was one of the people that strenuously fought against the passage of the Georgia law last year that made it legal to carry a firearm in this restaurant. The law also contained a provision overriding Taco Mac’s policy of banning firearms from its employee parking lots.
Tappan Street Restaurant Group, which operates most of the Taco Mac restaurants in the Atlanta area, was quick to ban the legal carry of firearms in their restaurants following the passage of HB89 (the “gun rights” bill) into law in July 2008.
Let us consider the history. Taco Mac has not had an armed robbery in 30 years. Taco Mac posted the Georgia Restaurant Association signs banning firearms, which tells criminals that this is an easy target. Then it is robbed. So what is the conclusion to be drawn? That gun free zones encourage armed criminals to prey upon the disarmed people inside?
No. No, that would be too obvious a conclusion for a gun-fearing wussy to draw.
It is probably wishful thinking to believe that Bob Campbell will reconsider his gun ban. Rationality and the experience of empirical observation rarely enter into the thought processes of a gun banner.
‘Zactly.
April 29, 2009 at 10:19 am |
I read these stories and find it so easy to see why WE NEED to keep our 2nd amendment rights! And yet those liberal anti-gun people, for some reason that escapes me, just keep on trying to take away OUR RIGHTS! My mind just reels at how they reason that “if we take away guns from law abiding citizens then people will stop dying”. It makes me want to scream at them ‘READ THIS STORY, YOU IDIOTS AND EXPLAIN WHY YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND”!!!!!
I just don’t get it…. I really just don’t get it…
April 29, 2009 at 11:38 am |
They have a mental defect…the part of their brain that should hold their logic capability instead holds their feeeelings
April 29, 2009 at 6:36 pm |
You have to remember that constitutional rights are generally there to protect you from the government, not from private parties. A private organization, like Taco Mac, can tell you that if you’re carrying a gun, you aren’t welcome there. Your right to go into a private establishment is limited.
That said, I agree with Curtis’s premise. If someone puts up a sign that says, “No Legal Guns Allowed” then they might as well put up a sign that says, “Please Come and Rob Us at Gunpoint.” You certainly have a right to walk right past that business and go somewhere else. I recommend exercising that right. You’re only inviting trouble if you go into a restaurant that has a sign like that out front.
April 30, 2009 at 6:29 am |
‘Zactly…
September 12, 2009 at 12:21 pm |
The only reason I’m not sure this works is because until HB 89 passed, it was already illegal to carry in restaurants that serve alcohol. However, the criminal could still have seen Taco Mac as an easy target relative to other restaurants that don’t ban guns.