Wait, I thought Virginia was for lovers? Isn't that the slogan we saw for years on countless bumper stickers?
After reading yesterday’s AP news story about a Virginia Beach pizza place owner, Jay Laze, showing his support for firearms by offering a 15 percent discount to anyone who came into his shop toting a gun or bearing a concealed handgun permit, the slogan may have to be changed to: Virginia is for Gun Lovers. Proudly Mr. Laze hails that 80 percent of his customers came in armed with guns, and one fine fellow even meandered in with his prized AK-47 in tow.
It sounds like we've got the makings of a reality show here. They can call it -- Rigatoni, Russian Roulette-style. Just imagine the possibilities. A grandmother, wearing a revolver, is served the wrong kind of ravioli, say cheese instead of meat. She gets angry and pulls out her six-shooter and blasts a couple of holes in the tacky, pizza parlor paintings. Or one loose cannon, toting a semi-automatic, gets a topping of peppers instead of pepperoni and all hellfire breaks out. Suddenly, you’re back in the day, dining in good, old Dodge City. Stay tuned and try to guess who’s coming to dinner next.
In the meantime, the Virginia media mongrels need to start a new ad campaign. Instead of Virginia is for Lovers, may I suggest, Virginia: Proudly Serving Pizza with a Side of Pistol. Personally, I would add -- Please Hold the Bullets.
To me, a restaurant packed with gun slinging guests is the stuff of nightmares. Still others are claiming they would feel safer dining in a place like this. Their thinking is that nobody would be crazy enough to try to pull off any copycat mass murder stunts in an eatery armed to the hilt. Just asking -- would you frequent this kind of joint or boycott it?
Cindi Sansone-Braff, “The Romance Whisperer,” is a relationship coach, and author of Grant Me a Higher Love: How to Go from the Relationship from Hell to One that’s Heaven Sent by Scaling The Ladder of Love. She was also named Best Psychic four years in a row by The Long Island Press and was recommended by Newsday as one of the best psychic/mediums on Long Island.
Or you could look at Israel where every citizen is trained to protect themselves with a gun and yet DON'T have the crime we do
..On th enight of the Aurora Colorado shooting, there were 8 theatres showing Batman at mindnight..... The shooter did his homework...he went to the ONLY one that prohibited license pistol owners from bringing there gun. Think about that for a while.
you mean a "gun free zone" didn't magically stop gun violence!?
The UK includes a much broader category of "violent crimes" than is done by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports; in England they include all “crimes against the person,” including simple assaults, all robberies, and all “sexual offenses,” versus the FBI, which only includes aggravated assaults and “forcible rapes.” Therefore your "comparison" is a total distortion, and I'd like to think it was accidental and not intended to deceive others.
It's worrisome that someone with your mental capacity could be allowed to own a firearm. You wouldn't be approved in Israel, or even in a country with a high ownership rate like Switzerland as you wouldn't be deemed competent and responsible.
The age list of murdered school-age children in Chicago so far in 2013 • 18 YEARS OLD:..... 15 • 17 YEARS OLD...... 16 • 16 YEARS OLD...... 16 • 15 YEARS OLD........ 6 • 14 YEARS OLD........ 4 • 13 YEARS OLD........ 2 • 12 YEARS OLD........ 1 • 7 YEARS OLD.......... 1 • 6 YEARS OLD.......... 1
-since UK banned guns, there has been an increase in the number of muggings, robberies and other crimes, but they just didn't involve guns -"The United Kingdom has a total recorded crime rate per capita of approximately 85 per 1000 people; the United States of America records approximately 80" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_Kingdom#Firearms_crime
Typical "I don't like your argument so I'm going to insult you". Real intelligent. What's worrisome is people like you get to vote. First of all I don't pay 2 cents of attention to what smeone like LaPierre says nor did I say ANYTHING regarding Isreali laws on guns. I simply said the citizens there are properly trained to use a firearm as required by mandatory military service and they don't have the crime rate we do even though the majority of citizens know how to use a gun. Funny, you're under the impression you're smarter than me yet conveniently ignored the direct contradictions of tighter gun laws with the examples of Chicago, Mexico and England, all places where gun laws are tight or outright banned yet still have high crime rates, whether the crime involves a gun or not. so please tell me oh wise one with high mental capacity, how do you claim guns are the biggest problem when places that have some of the tightest laws have some of the highest crime rates. Clearly you're logic is flawed
by some huge coincidence he walks into the only movie theater with a "gun free zone" or he know before hand no one was legally able to defend themselves with a gun there? This is the same guy who was smart enough to rig his apartment to blow, it's pretty ignorant to think he couldn't do a simply google search or look with his own eyes
Sleazebag would be more like it.
And you have the balls to call me a troll...
Pick up the phone. Call someone that gives a f#$k. This is the internet. Grow some thick skin or GTFO. There are 5 billion people on this planet. You wont be missed.