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    Toby Keith restaurant in Va. bans guns, sparks uproar

    How do you like him now? Is he as good as he once was? Or do you want to put a boot in his ass?

    Toby Keith restaurant in Va. bans guns, sparks uproar

    WOODBRIDGE, Va. - A new restaurant that recently opened in Woodbridge is sparking a Second Amendment controversy, especially online.

    The restaurant named for country music star Toby Keith has posted a " No guns permitted" sign on its front door and gun rights supporters are blasting the restrictions on the chain's Facebook page. Some comments accuse Keith, who doesn't own the restaurant, of being anti-gun.

    Virginia is a right to carry state, which means residents can openly carry a firearm without a license.
    Man, how are we supposed to do oyster shooters with no guns? From a red solo cup?
    Enjoy.
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    Originally posted by Norm dePlume View Post
    How do you like him now? Is he as good as he once was? Or do you want to put a boot in his ass?



    Man, how are we supposed to do oyster shooters with no guns? From a red solo cup?
    Does the restaurant serve alcohol? Because it's my understanding that Texas, a gun-rights state if there ever was one, has had a no-guns law for bars since the Wild West days.

    Any fool ought to get that liquor, gunpowder and testosterone are a mix almost as lethal as liquor, gasoline and testosterone. Hmmmm... maybe it's not guns we should ban.
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    • #3
      Originally posted by Norm dePlume View Post
      How do you like him now? Is he as good as he once was? Or do you want to put a boot in his ass?
      None of the above. I don't give a shit. This is 800 miles away from me, in accordance with state laws, and Toby Keith has nothing to do with this place anyway.

      Furthermore, I don't recall him being a big gun guy anyway.



      Crowing about this is about as stupid as the crowing about him supporting Obama. Toby Keith has vocally been a life-long Democrat, just like his daddy and his daddy's daddy.
      It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
      In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
      Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
      Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Celeste Chalfonte View Post
        Does the restaurant serve alcohol? Because it's my understanding that Texas, a gun-rights state if there ever was one, has had a no-guns law for bars since the Wild West days.
        Virginia is an open-carry state. The law is silent regarding open carry in a place where alcohol is served or sold. It requires the owners'/operator's permission to carry concealed (with the appropriate licensure, of course) where alcohol is served or sold.

        Originally posted by Celeste Chalfonte View Post
        Any fool ought to get that liquor, gunpowder and testosterone are a mix almost as lethal as liquor, gasoline and testosterone. Hmmmm... maybe it's not guns we should ban.
        This is the same silly myth that was pushed here, and it's as untrue as the howls of blood in the streets after the so-called assault weapons ban ended.

        I don't know about Virginia, but in Tennessee, it's illegal to be drunk anywhere with a weapon, whether that's in a bar or on the street or at your office (if it's open to the public during some set of hours). People screamed bloody murder when the state law was clarified that bar owners may restrict guns with proper signage, but that it's not illegal for someone to possess a gun in an establishment that serves alcohol if that person is not impaired.

        That's been four or five years ago since that law was passed, and to date there has been exactly one case of a shooting in a bar: it was the owner of the bar shooting a musician long after hours, both were drunk, and outside of being drunk, the bar owner had the legal right to have a weapon on premises regardless of the law applying to patrons. So much for those shrieks about people getting drunk in bars and shooting the place up. Doesn't happen.
        It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
        In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
        Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
        Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Adam View Post
          None of the above. I don't give a shit. This is 800 miles away from me, in accordance with state laws, and Toby Keith has nothing to do with this place anyway.

          Furthermore, I don't recall him being a big gun guy anyway.



          Crowing about this is about as stupid as the crowing about him supporting Obama. Toby Keith has vocally been a life-long Democrat, just like his daddy and his daddy's daddy.
          Huh. I would have thought he would have some rights regarding the use of his name.
          Enjoy.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Celeste Chalfonte View Post
            Does the restaurant serve alcohol? Because it's my understanding that Texas, a gun-rights state if there ever was one, has had a no-guns law for bars since the Wild West days.

            Any fool ought to get that liquor, gunpowder and testosterone are a mix almost as lethal as liquor, gasoline and testosterone. Hmmmm... maybe it's not guns we should ban.
            Because drunk women never go off?
            "Faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind : which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to anything but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it."
            -John Locke

            "It's all been melded together into one giant, authoritarian, leftist scream."
            -Newman

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Celeste Chalfonte View Post
              Does the restaurant serve alcohol? Because it's my understanding that Texas, a gun-rights state if there ever was one, has had a no-guns law for bars since the Wild West days.

              Any fool ought to get that liquor, gunpowder and testosterone are a mix almost as lethal as liquor, gasoline and testosterone. Hmmmm... maybe it's not guns we should ban.
              Except this is Virginia, Counselor. Perhaps you have heard that different rules apply in different states.
              "Faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind : which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to anything but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it."
              -John Locke

              "It's all been melded together into one giant, authoritarian, leftist scream."
              -Newman

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Norm dePlume View Post
                Huh. I would have thought he would have some rights regarding the use of his name.
                Very limited. Toby Keith is not a restauranteur. He sold some naming rights. He has about as much say over the day-to-day operations of that restaurant as LP Building Products has over the Titans starting defensive lineup.
                It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
                In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
                Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
                Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Adam View Post
                  Very limited. Toby Keith is not a restauranteur. He sold some naming rights. He has about as much say over the day-to-day operations of that restaurant as LP Building Products has over the Titans starting defensive lineup.
                  Does "nothing to do with this place" mean something different in your world? Clearly he has licensed his name to the place, and unless his lawyer is an idiot he has an escape clause he can invoke if they start doing something he doesn't want to be associated with.
                  Enjoy.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Norm dePlume View Post
                    Does "nothing to do with this place" mean something different in your world? Clearly he has licensed his name to the place, and unless his lawyer is an idiot he has an escape clause he can invoke if they start doing something he doesn't want to be associated with.
                    I see you've never owned a restaurant.
                    "Faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind : which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to anything but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it."
                    -John Locke

                    "It's all been melded together into one giant, authoritarian, leftist scream."
                    -Newman

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Norm dePlume View Post
                      Does "nothing to do with this place" mean something different in your world? Clearly he has licensed his name to the place, and unless his lawyer is an idiot he has an escape clause he can invoke if they start doing something he doesn't want to be associated with.


                      Get the fuck over yourself.

                      When this place starts pimping out pre-teens, let me know and I'll personally drive out West End Avenue and bang on Toby Keith's door and demand that he take his name off the restaurant. In the meantime, your silly trolling "gotcha" goes nowhere.
                      It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
                      In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
                      Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
                      Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by scott View Post
                        I see you've never owned a restaurant.
                        I see you've never been a famous recording artist with a bankable name.
                        Enjoy.

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                        • #13
                          I don't get the hubbub. Why would the members of this forum have any issue with this restaurant banning guns. I don't get the "gotcha".
                          Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live...
                          Robert Southwell, S.J.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by phillygirl View Post
                            I don't get the hubbub. Why would the members of this forum have any issue with this restaurant banning guns. I don't get the "gotcha".
                            It's because all conservatives are drones who are incapable of independent thought, so we all listen to Toby Keith constantly when we're not taking our marching orders from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.

                            Because boot in your ass, that's why.
                            It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
                            In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
                            Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
                            Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by phillygirl View Post
                              I don't get the hubbub. Why would the members of this forum have any issue with this restaurant banning guns. I don't get the "gotcha".
                              Why do you think there's supposed to be a gotcha?
                              Enjoy.

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