DES MOINES, Iowa – While many retail businesses around the country have taken up the trend of plastering “no guns allowed” signs on their front doors, one national restaurant chain has boldly declared the right to bear arms key to what makes this nation “great.”
Denny’s restaurants, a diner chain famous for being open every hour of every day, earlier this month released a commercial titled “Greatness,” which asks what makes America great, only to answer with – among other things – the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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“Kids,” the father in the commercial asks after receiving a “Midwestern Meat & Potatoes Sandwich” he’s clearly admiring, “do you know what it is that makes this country great?
“The Constitution our forefathers wrote?” asks his daughter in return.
“Our unified belief in the American dream?” his son suggests.
The other customers in the restaurant then get in on the act, while strains of patriotic music play in the background.
“Our melting-pot heritage that proves our differences really are our strengths?” a man proposes.
“It’s our right to bear arms!” insists an elderly lady, referring to the wording of the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment.
“Yes!” says the father, clearly covering his embarrassment at the profundity of answers offered to his question, which he initially asked about his … sandwich. “Those are some of the great things I was thinking of, as well.”
The commercial ends on a lighter note, with the man’s daughter holding up her teddy bear and asking in confused tone, “Bear arms?”
The commercial itself can be seen below:
As WND reported, after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., outside a Tucson Safeway supermarket last year, a number of businesses began banning guns in their stores, including Des Moines, Iowa, grocery chain Dahl’s Foods. WND was able to confirm that over a year later, despite public pressure, the gun ban at Dahl’s is still in effect.
Other stores and national chains, such as Costo supermarkets and IKEA furniture stores, have similar gun bans in effect.
Many 2nd Amendment advocates, however, argue that gun and concealed carry bans in stores will only stop law-abiding gun owners from carrying weapons, thus making the stores more dangerous.
“I think it’s a terrible idea,” Iowa resident Jim Bricker told WND of the Dahl’s gun ban, “because if someone has it in their head to go in and rob a place, they’re going to do it. If permit holders are forbidden from carrying firearms in that store, [criminals] just have free rein to do anything they want.”
“I just hate to see a local company shoot themselves in the foot for no good reason,” said Jan Mickelson of Iowa’s WHO Radio. “They say it’s about safety. It’s silly. Iowans don’t buy that. They’re protecting against the wrong people. … One guy called in and said, ‘Hey, if only I’d have known it was that easy. I had a relative who was shot in his retail store. If he’d only known that signs keep people safe, he’d have put up a sign and avoided the whole thing.’
“It’s just silly logic,” Mickelson concluded.
Denny’s is not among those retailers with a national ban on legally carried, concealed firearms.
7 comments:
I'm all for the right to carry a gun BUT not in a restaurant or any retail outlet. There is no need to have a gun in your belt while eating your pancakes. A criminal or nut case can take that gun away from you in a split second and use it on you and/or other customers. Imagine how you'd feel if a child was murdered because you didn't keep that gun in your car.
You're an idiot...
Anonymous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1u0Byq5Qis
Hopefully the person who takes your gun away from you will shoot you in the head and no one else.
im sorry but as someone who was stalked AND shot at AS A CHILD... i see NOOOOOO problem with a legal weapon on hand no matter where ya at. that is THEE constitutional RIGHT dumbass..if you DONT want the right, hey the borders are open im SURE theres someone in another country who'd love the rights you have =)
It is a miracle that you survived. I can't call you a dumbass. I feel sorry for you. I see that you have some brain damage from being shot in the head .. several times. You are just not able to comprehend. Damage in the ceberal cortex ?
Maybe you can have an adult explain this to you. Yes, the Constitution gives you the right to carry a gun. "SHOULD YOU" OR MORE IMPORTANTLY "DO YOU NEED TO" carry a gun into Denny's or your grocery store or a sporting event ?
Recently, a clown came into my grocery store with a gun tucked into his belt behind his back. The police were called. He was confronted. He was asked if was a police officer. He wasn't. He had a permit. He stood there reading yogurt labels for 10 minutes. It looked as though he was trying to impress people.
I'm 6'2" and 210 pounds .. he was about 5'10" and maybe 175 pounds. If I wanted that gun I could have gotten it off him any time I wanted.
THE QUESTION IS .. Was there a NEED to carry that weapon into the grocery store to buy some yogurt and jeapardize other people's lives ? I say NO. Even some Mexicans are intelligent enough to understand that.
I'm probably going to buy a gun and keep it in my home to protect myself from our new
government but I'm not going to carry it into a grocery store and risk some innocent bystander getting hurt.
Guns should be carried at all times if you want to keep yourself safe. Leaving your gun at home or locked in your car only makes it easier for criminals to commit their crimes. You're not putting anyone at risk by carrying, just the opposite, if you don't carry, you are being negligent. Only an idiot allows himself to be disarmed by a thug.
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