Virginia Pizza Shop Offers A Discount To Anyone Who Carries A Gun

[MrScorpio]

At one Virginia pizza shop, customers who bring in a gun or show a gun permit get 15 percent off their order. The pro-gun owner of All Around Pizzas and Deli claimed that 80 percent of his customers have walked in carrying a gun since he offered the discount last week, including one carrying an AK-47. “It’s been awesome,” the owner, Jay Laze, said.


Nice Ron Paul sign

All Around Pizzas isn’t the only business encouraging customers to tote guns two months after the Newtown shooting. Earlier this month, a Utah ice cream business offered concealed carry permit-holders $1 off of their ice cream.

Thanks to Virginia’s open carry laws, customers can not only enjoy their pizza next to a gun, but they can also go to the bank, hospital, store, and a bar with firearms.


Guns and babies, nice combo.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/02/19/1607601/pizza-guns-discount/

It's stuff like this that exacerbates much of the doubt that we're living in a civilized society.

[2ndAmForComputers]

1. Proving once again that businesses CAN throw temper tantrums. This is one.

[RKP5637]

2. And the march continues forward to a country with total "Idiocracy!" n/t

[Coyotl]

114. "Want to take the kiddies out for a pizza Honey? Grab my carry permit and let's go."

Livin' in the USA!

[onehandle]

3. Good. It'll keep them out of respectable establishments.

Also, it'll make it easier to collect their guns when the time comes.

Are you a NRA member? A gun range regular? A Glib Sociopath that goes to a pizza place, because you know it is run by other Glib Sociopaths?

WE HAVE YOUR NAME!

Idiots.

[Coyote_Tan]

7. Well... That was creepy...

[onehandle]

12. Gun nuts complain about listing their names, then gather and strut to put their names on lists.

So smart...

[cherokeeprogressive]

128. When did the required actions for buying a pizza change to include signing your name to a list?

[HoneychildMooseMoss]

134. So everyone is going to use cash at that place?

If one pays by credit or debit card, one must divulge one's name.

[slackmaster]

67. Attitudes like onehandle's reinforce my commitment to fight to keep the right to keep and bear arms

The extremists and prohibitionists in the gun control faction are their worst enemies.

[Cali_Democrat]

96. Extremists?

The extremists are the folks who think they need multiple AR-15's and many 30-round clips.

Those are the extremists. Al-Qaeda can look at them and appreciate their weaponry.

[slackmaster]

97. I think people who think they know what other people are thinking are not quite right

[kestrel91316]

92. "Creepy" is the name I give to obsessively masturbatory gun nuttery.

[Coyote_Tan]

102. Good on you...

The only difference between the two groups is that only one is trying to determine how the other one lives.

Before you say it, being scared of inanimate objects doesn't count as forcing someone to live a certain way...

[Nuclear Unicorn]

10. "it'll make it easier to collect their guns when the time comes."

But everyone says "They aren't going to take your guns away."

Perhaps you should confer with your associates.

[onehandle]

15. Clearly you think that is in the planning, thus...

Welcome to ignore.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

22. You seem to be planning/hoping it is being planned

And yes, there are attempts to insert laws that demand surrender of guns and others that seek to allow police warrantless searches.

But since you're ignoring me now I suppose my points will stand unchallenged..

[ThatPoetGuy]

28. There are attempts to declare the moon flat, and give fetuses the right to vote,

and there are attempts to have Obama declared President For Life, and there are attempts to have him sent "back" to Kenya.

It would take a highly propagandized perspective to base a viewpoint on any of these "attempts."

But then, only a highly propagandized person would hold the viewpoints you seem to think are real.

Reality is interesting. You should check it out sometime.

[sarisataka]

29. How many of those are put forth in actual legislation?

Legislation backed by several St. Louis area lawmakers would require gun owners to surrender or destroy their assault weapons within 90 days of the measure's passage. The proposed ban would include semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines and semi-automatic pistols with the capacity to shoot more than ten rounds of ammunition before reloading.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/state-and-regional/missouri/mo-democrats-propose-assault-weapon-ban/article_a1e7ef85-ae97-57b0-bb85-a1b2bed51f80.html

H.F. No. 241 which despite claims to the contrary does apply to pistols as well as rifles, mandates owners turn in the guns for destruction... http://www.revisor.mn.gov/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0241.0.html&session=ls88

In WA there was an "oversight" that included the right for police to search a gun owner's house without warrant, on three separate bills.



Latest on MN bill:

The Minnesota Senate will not act to ban assault weapons or high-capacity ammunition clips this year, a DFL leader said Monday.

Sen. Ron Latz, DFL-St. Louis Park, who is chairing the Senate’s gun hearings this week, said he will focus on closing the loopholes in background checks and leave the issue of banning weapons or ammunition to Congress.
*********
Support came from Protect Minnesota, a gun-control organization, and former Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan. But the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, which represents rank-and-file police officers, threw its support behind universal background checks rather than the guns and magazine bans.

Two points- it is a Democrat who is tabling the ban bill. Second, despite repeatedly being told the police back strict control, it is the rank and file who support background checks over bans, when given the choice.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

31. You'll notice the link shown in post #29

Apparently I'm forced to inhabit the same reality as those proposing the legislation you claim does not exist.

However, what I was referring to was the fact that onehandle wrote, "it'll make it easier to collect their guns when the time comes." if seizing weapons is not part of the agenda of some then such a statement would be implausible. But he did make that statement and he seems to look forward to a time when it isn't merely plausible but actual law.

Since you seem to a part of the "it can't happen here" camp would you like to go on record stating unequivocally that you would oppose all efforts to impose a general ban?

[Eleanors38]

59. I think #28 is actually saying: Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain; I am Oz!

[GreenStormCloud]

34. Perhaps you should read this thread.

Nuclear Unicorn is NOT claiming that guns will be collected. She is pointing out that onehandle believes the time will come when guns are taken away.

Note this from onehandle's post #3 in this thread: Also, it'll make it easier to collect their guns when the time comes.

I would say the NU is in tune with reality when she points out the onehandle's view contradicts that of many DUers, including yourself, who claim that gun won't be taken up.

[Dreamer Tatum]

35. Owning a gun doesn't make one a sociopath nt

[onehandle]

42. How about open carry?

Welcome to 2013, Not 1860.

[Dreamer Tatum]

44. No it doesn't.

Post all the cartoons you like - open carry is a privilege granted by law.

Are pot smokers in CO sociopaths?

[onehandle]

46. Keep flailing. 12/14 changed everything. nt

[Dreamer Tatum]

52. What, did the iPhone 6 come out?

Damn, I missed it.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

57. And some Islamophobes claim 9/11 changed everything vis-a-vis the 1st Amendment

You shouldn't keep company with such mindsets.

[Politicalboi]

82. LOL!

Wow what a comparison. It should be against the law to bring your paranoia into any business establishment unless it's a gun shop. I hope this asshole pizza guy gets robbed or goes out of business. I would NEVER go into a place like that. Assholes like this can stockpile ammo and guns till his hearts content, but lawmakers in Colorado are concerned about stockpiling pot at home. And open carry infringes on the rest of the public. It puts people lives in danger, and should NEVER be allowed.

How about having a national gun nut day. That way, the rest of us sane people can stay home that day, and the gun nuts can have a parade and show off their penises, I mean guns.

[Light House]

85. You really hope someone gets robbed?

That's nuttier than your gun nuts.

[AndyA]

4. I would never eat there.

Guns in banks: great idea, Virginia!

[GreenStormCloud]

36. Been done already.

A bank in Texas, several years ago. Hasn't been a problem there.

[Cali_Democrat]

43. How fucking lame is that?

This country is a sad joke. People around the world just point and laugh.

[GreenStormCloud]

51. I don't care if someone in another country laughs or not. N/T

[GoneOffShore]

74. Well, aren't you special?

[Nanjing to Seoul]

133. I'm an American in another country and I point at laugh at gun nuts

Care now?

Isolationist jingoism is amazing to me.

[Light House]

5. I think it's stupid

but it's their store, so if that's what they want to do, have at it and accept the consequences whatever they may be.

[Renew Deal]

6. Eat free if you unholster it.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

11. Who would want to rob that place?

[sharp_stick]

27. Probably be pretty easy

All you'd have to do is shout "This is a robbery!" from outside and every fucking wanna be Rambo in that place would be shooting at anything that moves. When the dust clears you take the till and all the wallets.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

32. Except that doesn't actually happen.

[Cali_Democrat]

39. LOL

[Turbineguy]

8. That Mother has a great holster

in case she needs to shoot her baby tout de suite.

When you want to live like a savage, you should dress like one.

[Macoy51]

47. Keep Walking

I wonder what a would-be rapist would do if he saw the young mother with a gun? Keep walking would be my first guess.



Macoy

[kestrel91316]

94. He'd notice that all her attention was on her baby and he'd snatch her gun AND her purse.

[laundry_queen]

135. Bingo.

This thread is unreal. Sure is bringing out a lot of gungeoneers.

[FightingIrish]

9. I came across this story via a tweet from an Italian news agency I follow.

We have a serious problem but the rest of the world is laughing at us. God, I wish these idiots had their own country to ruin.

[Eleanors38]

64. Glad to see the rest of the world in good humor! BTW, is there a local MSM source?

[laundry_queen]

136. No one finds this humorous in the rest of the world.

The rest of the world thinks the US has lost their ever lovin' collective mind with regards to guns. Not that you care. Although, it seems a lot of people here cared what the rest of the world thought when Bush was president, but when it comes to guns, it's okay to be reviled according to you. Did you care what the rest of the world thought when Bush was in office?

[Eleanors38]

141. Check up thread, and see who broached the topic of Europe/world laughing...

Don't expect me or anyone else to take seriously someone's international PR efforts when guns/gun control is a domestic concern. You seem to share the same problem in approaching this issue as other controllers: Reliance on shame and contrived moral opprobrium as a method of effecting social policy. It doesn't work, but it is peculiarly American, if not worthy of laughter.

[laundry_queen]

142. Your country SHOULD be ashamed.

And it's NOT a fucking domestic concern. About half of all our gun crimes in Canada are commited with 'legally purchased' US guns. Don't give me 'this is a domestic issue' crap (ie you foreigners should butt out) because it isn't. And it IS a moral issue, but laugh your ass off....because like a lot of republicans, YOU are on the wrong side of history.

[riverbendviewgal]

13. disgusting

These people are sick

[laundry_queen]

137. There are a lot of

"these people" right here in this thread.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

14. Sick fucks...

Every one of them.

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. Mammy Yokum (pic #2 ) sure looks like she's loaded for bear.

And 'ol Festus sure look like he's enjoin' his picture-takin'

I'd starve to death before I ate in that dump.

[KamaAina]

17. Fake gun?

Mmmm... pizza....

[City Lights]

18. Demented. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. 80% particiption =

4 out of 5 customers are gunhumpers that patronize that nitwit's place.

[Javaman]

20. even bigger discount to the first person who sticks them up. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. Yes, they get 100% off their pizza, plus whatever is in the register.

nice rewards program, eh?

[Javaman]

23. "What no toppings??"

[Light House]

24. Only if they and the rest of the patrons survived the ensuing shootout.

It would probably end up like that scene at the end of the movie, Enemy of the State with Will Smith where eveyone shoots everyone else and only Will Smith survives by crawling under a table.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=enemy+of+the+state+shootout&mid=895B7CE91CB70309BDD1895B7CE91CB70309BDD1&view=detail&FORM=VIRE1

[Initech]

25. When pizza is outlawed, only outlaws will have pizza.

[virgdem]

26. That Pizza shop is right around the corner from where I live...

You can bet that I won't be going there for pizza, or what passes as pizza down here (as a born and bred New Yorker, I can say that this is not the pizza I grew up eating on Long Island).

[ZombieHorde]

30. The pizza in NY city is awesome.

I love most pizza, but there's just something about NY city pizza.

[Cali_Democrat]

41. Chicago style > NY

[ZombieHorde]

45. I've never been to Chicago.

I would probably prefer the pizza in NY, since that is the pizza I ate as a child.

[riderinthestorm]

49. +1

[Son of Gob]

78. Correct.

[GoneOffShore]

75. Yelp reviews are fun.

Just saying.

[cherokeeprogressive]

129. I noticed LOL.

[Blue_Tires]

83. Yeah, I live closeby too

Forget the guns; the Ron Paul banner alone is enough to keep me from ever setting foot in there...

[NoGOPZone]

100. best post in this whole discussion nt

[stuntcat]

33. Encourage everyone to carry their guns with them everywhere! Nothing could go wrong!

The hairless upright monkeys have evolved so much!

I'm sure armed crowds of them couldn't be incited to violence!

#humanity

[Cali_Democrat]

38. This is why America has become a laughingstock around the world. n/t

[friendly_iconoclast]

66. You keep mentioning others' opinion as if it were important...

[Cali_Democrat]

76. We're not a crazy country at all

[friendly_iconoclast]

107. What difference does it make? Afraid the cool kids won't let you sit at their table...

...during lunch?

[Cali_Democrat]

119. Well...

Most other industrialized countries have much lower gun death rates and higher life expectancies.

Maybe we can learn something from the "cool kids"

[Ghost in the Machine]

132. "We're not a crazy country at all".. Exactly! We don't kill our daughters, wives, sisters, mothers,

aunts or any female in "honor killings", or make them marry their rapist, because they got raped. We don't make our female population cover themselves from head to toe or wear burkas. We don't practice female infanticide like they do in China, India or a few other countries.

We don't strap bombs to ourselves and blow up as many innocent bystanders as possible, with the belief we'll have 72 virgins waiting for us in heaven. We don't bow and scrape to psychotic dictators or "Dear Leaders"....

We do, however, know our RIGHTS, and choose to use them within the extent of the laws of our states, counties, municipalities, townships, etc..

We're nowhere near as crazy as some other countries...

[laundry_queen]

138. If you are proud that you're doing better

than ultra religious 3rd world countries, well, that's just sad. Is that what the US has come to? So much for 'world leader' in anything anymore,

[Heywood J]

111. You keep mentioning yours as if it were moreso.

Welcome to the concept of a discussion board.

[EastKYLiberal]

40. Maybe one will accidentally discharge and get rid of an idiot or two. nt

[GreenStormCloud]

48. A couple of local business around here have a sign like this:

[MrScorpio]

50. Somehow, I'm not surprised. nt

[mokawanis]

53. "Accuracy is appreciated"

That line made me laugh. Make sure you shoot the bad guy and don't fire a round into some kid's head by accident.

That pizza store owner? Surprised he feels comfortable with random strangers walking in with loaded weapons. Takes a real gun-humper to think they're safe around strangers with guns.

[TheCowsCameHome]

60. I've seen that above restaurant urinals.

"We aim to please - you aim too, please"

[cherokeeprogressive]

130. "We aim to please. Your aim will help." n/t

[Erose999]

118. The first time a customer shoots a "criminal", the owner will lose his ass in lawsuits etc. Its

cheaper just to let them take the money.

I worked at a restaraunt where we had a tip jar on the counter, and sometimes teenagers would come in and grab it and run off. One time one ran right past me and I thought about throwing a leg out to trip him. But I decided to just let him run, its not worth the legal situation of hurting some kid over a plastic beer pitcher with less than $10 in crumpled ones in it.

We just emptied the jar often throughout the day instead of just at closing, but always left a few ones in there just so people would know they're supposed to put money in it.

[TheCowsCameHome]

58. A couple of places around here have a sign like this

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[GreenStormCloud]

95. That sign says "...this Federal facility..."

Private places can't put that sign up.

[TheCowsCameHome]

98. Yes. Isn't it wonderful?

And the NRA can't do a thing about it.

[GreenStormCloud]

109. But you were trying to pretend that it was private businesses that had that sign. N/T

[TheCowsCameHome]

113. No, I was not pretending any such thing.

Read post #58 very carefully.

I was merely pointing out a wonderful sign that is posted near where I live.

[GreenStormCloud]

117. The thread was about private businesses.

Everybody knows that you can't take a gun into a Federal facility unless you are specifically authorized to do so.

[TheCowsCameHome]

121. Thank you, DU Thread PD

It's nice to know you're armed, ready, and vigilant.

[krispos42]

93. *snort*

[Ikonoklast]

131. They are leaving themselves wide open to a lawsuit if anyone gets injured.

Even a lousy attorney would have a field day with that one.

[Gorp]

54. It's the only pizza joint in VA that lists .233 casings as a topping.

[Eleanors38]

63. Wimpy. Should be .35 REM. What is a ".233," by the way?

[Gorp]

68. AR-15 - the one that took out 20 children and 6 school employees.

It's a nasty thing. It isn't so much the gauge, but rather the weapons that that gauge feeds. My shotgun is a 20 gauge. That doesn't sound much different, but the shotgun is bolt action, the clip holds two rounds, and it isn't a rifle, much less an assault rifle. It's also rather old, like back when Sears sold guns. I think it's based on a Remington but I'm not sure. It might be a Winchester. It was my late father-in-laws gun. It's a pretty thing, craftsmanship-wise. I keep his handguns locked in a fire safe - no ammo.

A .233 is designed for fully automatic fire. The civilian models of guns that take it really don't have much difference from a fully automatic. You can get bump-stock kits and secondary grips for squat on the net. As Steve Martin said in "My Blue Heaven", "A 45 will blow a hole in you the size of a barn door and there's a lot of dry cleaning involved. A 22 will just rattle around in your skull like, Pac Man or something."

I don't keep the clip in the shotgun, but it's available (and loaded with two rounds) if I need it. The only reason I'm really concerned about are rabid skunks or raccoons. We get those around here. Humans, not so much, although I suspect some are rabid. Cars with their fucking alarms going off at 3 a.m. are a much more likely target. Does anyone pay attention to car alarms? Seriously. All they do is annoy people. Now THAT'S a legitimate argument for grenade launchers!

[shadowrider]

72. Ummm. That would be a .223 n/t

[Gorp]

73. You are correct. .223 - my bad. D'OH!

[Eleanors38]

80. Nah, leaf-blowers: Bring back the Thompson!

[Gorp]

84. Leaf blowers are an abomonation EVEN unto GOD.

I'm sure that's in Leviticus somewhere.

[Mike Daniels]

55. The images of their food on their web site is enough to keep me away

Stuff looks like it's barely one step above Domino's.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

56. Yeah, it's called BEING ROBBED.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

61. Oh please, oh please, oh please....

It would be hiliarious beyond belief if these idiots got robbed. And then the crook demands his discount.

[Eleanors38]

62. I wish a couple of BBQ places in Austin would run that special. That and my senior discount, wow!

[GoneOffShore]

77. What you said.

[Eleanors38]

90. 41 years ago the NRA didn't even have a political action arm. How'd they get that?...

Charleton Heston may have been concerned about his hands, but before his statements there was this:

"You can't have my gun. The only way you're gonna get it from me is to try and take it." Huey Newton to the police in 1966-67.

Of course Ronald Reagan got the gun-control ball rolling with the Mulford Act in California which made it illegal to openly carry firearms in public; I mean, no one really wanted black folks with guns. The fear of armed blacks underwrote the 1968 Gun Controls Act.

As basic understanding of the history of modern gun control will reveal its racist origins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_night_special

In his book Restricting Handguns: The Liberal Skeptics Speak Out, civil rights attorney and gun scholar Don Kates found racial overtones in the focus on the Saturday Night Special[16] ("niggertown Saturday night special&quot . Even gun control advocate Robert Sherrill claimed: "The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed not to control guns but to control blacks."[17]
______________
Distasteful, disappointing, but that is the real beginnings of late 10th Century gun control. Go back further, and the precursors for many gun laws (proposed and enacted) were based on both antebellum and Jim Crow era Southern laws. Even NYC's Sullivan Laws were based on anti-Italian sentiment. Prohibition seems really to be about peoples, not the things, behaviors or status which is to be banned.

[Eleanors38]

123. You're quite welcome, but the Black Panthers did "parade around with guns."

Hence, the beginnings of the gun-control outlook.

[Eleanors38]

125. One of the ironies of this debate over civil rights, is who submitted the best brief in Heller...

The brief did a very cogent, economical historical survey of the racist origins of gun control, from antebellum times through the mid-twentieth century; some laws were overt, others were barely-concealed subterfuge. Who submitted the brief? Georgiacarry.com

http://www.georgiacarry.com/Heller/07-290bsacGeorgiaCarry.pdf

Can't you imagine a bunch of Georgia Crackers (primarily) having to due political latrine duty concerning their past? You gotta love it!

It is refreshing to see that you concede there are "racists (in the) gun control crowd." And they are closer than you think.

[TheCowsCameHome]

69. Pizza Guy: "Hello, police? - we've been robbed by a guy with a gun!"

PD: "Calm down, sir, calm down - now tell me, what did the robber look like, and did he have a weapon?"

Pizza guy: "What difference does that make? - Everyone in here has fucking gun!!!!"

[lame54]

70. Today's Special...

Order 2 large pizza and take whatever's in the cash register

[Starboard Tack]

71. Failed state. Failed pizza. Failed baby momma.

[Helen Reddy]

79. These images are disturbing. n/t

[mwrguy]

81. They should have their license revoked for encouraging a dangerous environment

This is insane.

[Heimer]

86. In because I'm shocked!

Not a single one noticed and barfed all over the Ron Paul banner in the background?

[MrScorpio]

87. Check my comment underneath Granny nt

[lynne]

88. Personally, I'd rather see the weapon -

- and know it's there than wonder who is carrying concealed.

We all do things every day - including eating in restaurants - where other patrons are carrying concealed and we have no clue. I'd rather know it's there and then I'm able to decide if I want to stay or go.

[shenmue]

89. They could just ask for the 100% discount.

You know, the one where they open the cash register?

Duh.

[krispos42]

91. Does anybody think this place will be robbed during business hours?

Anybody?

[TheCowsCameHome]

99. Not much worth taking, in that dive.

Therefore, it's not too likely.

[RZM]

115. Apparently a few people are hoping that it will be

And also hoping that people die in the crossfire.

Classy.

[treestar]

140. Was it going to be anyway?

Pizza shop robberies aren't a big news item, so I don't know.

[muntrv]

101. Whatcha gonna do when someone comes in with a gun for a 100% off?

[muntrv]

103. One day, some idiot is gonna come in, show off his/her gun and say

"Hey! Check this out!" and gunfire will ensue.

[friendly_iconoclast]

108. Got any examples of that happening in the real world?

There are plenty of places out there that allow open carry-surely one of you lot could at least come up with an
example by now...

[JoePhilly]

112. Don't you recall "Gun appreciation day"?

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/19/nation/la-na-nn-gun-appreciation-day-five-injured-at-three-different-gun-shows-20130119

Accidents happen.

[Ian David]

104. How bad is it that I really, really hope they get held-up by someone openly carrying?

"They walked in with a big ol' gun, so I immediately felt really safe, until they put it to my head and asked for my money."

[Nevernose]

106. I've been robbed at gunpoint twice

Both times working in pizza joints. This does not make me feel any safer.

[polly7]

110. If adults need to carry guns to feel safe while having a pizza

and it's legal (crazy, imo, but) that's up to them, but seeing the baby in this picture really bothers me.

[ileus]

116. 15% for something I do everyday...wish it was near me.

Of course once a month doesn't equal great savings....

[Aristus]

120. "Gimme the pizza, and all the money in the register, and nobody gets hurt."

Yep, that's quite a substantial discount, all right...

[Douglas Carpenter]

126. and the world is expected to respect Americans as a civilized people?

[Historic NY]

127. 15% discount, what they serve for pizza in Va is a crime...

its sucks.

[treestar]

139. So when a shooting occurs there

We're to think the other people with guns are going to stop it right off and get the right person, of course.

[Glaug-Eldare]

143. I don't get it. Why all the complaining?

It's just a pizza place, and it's just a bunch of licensed people in the same place. It's not like this is a criminal convention or something. I don't see anybody holding a gun in an unsafe manner, I don't see anyone acting in a threatening way, and I don't assume that a woman with a child is a danger to society. It's a promotion that drew in business and money.

As for pizza, the one time I went to New York and tried theirs, it was disgusting. Not even exaggerating, I felt like vomiting.

[MrScorpio]

144. If you can't see what's wrong...

I'm going to take that as a clue that you see nothing wrong with people brandishing firearms in public places as well, much like granny up there.

I'll just impart that some of us think that it's ridiculous for others to make a point of carrying dangerous weapons around in a so-called civilized society. Especially a resort town like VA Beach.

As far as the NY pizza experience is concerned, it's true: you can't please everybody.

[Glaug-Eldare]

145. Carrying and brandishing are different.

It is definitely wrong to brandish in a public place, but granny is holding the rifle in a nonthreatening way, and was probably asked to pose with it, consider how difficult it is to carry or eat pizza with a long gun and the fact that it's fitted with a sling. We clearly disagree on the ridiculousness of firearms carry, but that's more of an issue for the gungeon so I won't try to argue it with you in GD. Suffice it to say, I don't see that pizza restaurant as a more dangerous place than a police station full of people with guns.

You're right about the pizza -- it's all a matter of taste!