Wow, there’s nothing like a gun strapped to your hip to work up an appetite! I’m talking about Virginia’s own certifiable gun nuts who plan on bringing their guns to dinner in Northern Virginia restaurants on three Saturdays in April. Why? Because Dick Saslaw, a member of the Virginia General Assembly had the audacity to opine that restaurant owners would ask gun toters to leave. Let me ask you, if you were a member of a church attended predominantly by African-Americans, would you expect a Confederate-flag-wearing man to walk in and sit down in a pew on Sunday morning? Would you be offended? If a brown-shirted guy with a Nazi armband walked into a synagogue some Saturday, do you suppose anybody would object? We enjoy freedom of speech in America but it is still inappropriate, if not criminal, to yell fire in a crowded theatre or incite people to riot. So even assuming it is legal to pack guns into a restaurant, asserting YOUR right, what makes you think, Phil, that it is OK to intimidate your fellow patrons with a display of your manhood extender? Do we really want to go back to those glorious days of the Wild West? When I see a cop or a security guard with a gun, I don’t find it threatening. When I see somebody else, whose intentions or mental state I have no way of knowing, I find it scary. Do you care? Or isn’t that part of your plan or purpose? Were you the bully or the one bullied when you were a kid? I bet I know the answer. “Make my day.” “Do you feel lucky?” Your favorite movie dialogue?
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