Chipotle says leave your guns at home

[Aloha_Shooter]

listen, I'm at a burrito joint and I'm just trying to get in and out with some damned food, while some prick who has an encyclopedic knowledge of the menu is breathing down my neck because I'm not ordering shit fast enough (did I mention it's a stupid burrito place and I don't give a shit?) to notice that when the chick behind the counter asks "hey you want a little quacamole with that?" I don't take the time to pin-point the guacamole on the wall-wide menu and notice that it's $4.95 extra.

So you don't bother reading the menu but you're going to bitch about an extra charge for something that is clearly indicated as a premium add-on? That's right up there with these knuckleheads insisting on their rights by open carrying in a way they KNOW will provoke a reaction or the homosexual "rights activists" who costume up as eccentric half-naked nuns or priests "because they can".

This is America -- people have the right to be stupid but they don't have the right to shove their stupidity in my face.

[KAPA]

These assholes bringing rifles into Chipotle and other places piss me off about as much as Bloomberg's minions. If you OC a pistol for defense reasons then ok bring it in and eat, but if your sole reason for bringing a firearm on someone else's property is to prove a point, take pictures and publicize it, you have overstepped your bounds there. Yeah you may have the right in public walking down the street, but just because you have the right, there is a lot of responsibility that comes with that right.

I hope these morons figure out that this does not help and this is the last of this kind of crap. Other than a gun store, no business is going to welcome a bunch of untrained looking fat guys in cargo shorts toting rifles onto their property and I think that is proven now.

What we really need here in Colorado is the Constitutional Carry law to get passed.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Wow, those tweets and bookface messages.

[buffalobo]

Won't affect my dining or carry habits one little bit.

Over priced over rated and they hire illegal aliens. We don't spend our money there anyway.

Pretty much sums it up for me.

[Gman]

If you OC a pistol for defense reasons then ok bring it in and eat...

They can't OC a handgun in TX.

[HoneyBadger]

I can't think of any other right where the right is only protected if the people practice that right in secret.

Religion? Speech?

In any case, concealed means concealed, but companies that openly oppose what we stand for should not get our business. If we all stopped buying things from ANY business or person that donated money to democrats in the past 4 years, democrats would have a lot less funding. The real genius is the guy who runs Whole Foods: the guy is a strong conservative that donates strongly to conservative candidates and speaks out occasionally in defense of 1st and 2nd amendments, but gets the strong majority of his monetary power from hippies and other liberals. Genius. Convince them to give you their money, and then use it against them! This is exactly the sort of thing that we need to pay attention to. Money talks.

/soapbox

ETA:

and I open carry. just not my barrett with 400 rounds of linked 50bmg like some retard.

That would be quite a hassle to open carry around town... What does that setup weigh?

[speedysst]

Why? Sorry to burst your bubble but there are people that are uncomfortable with groups of idiots showing up to eat a burrito carrying an AR-15 or SKS. As a business, if the majority of customers are uncomfortable with it, then they will disallow the open carry in their restaurants. Though some people don't give a damn how uncomfortable other people are around guns, Chipotle evidently does.

Fuck chipolte!

[Dave]

Last I knew a .50 bmg round and link weighed about 4 ounces or 1/4 pound so you'd be looking at 100 pounds or so just in ammo to carry.

I know they were trying to make a political statement about TX allowing OC of rifles, but banning OC of pistols. However, there are better ways of doing that. What they should have done is reserve a gazebo and picnic area at a park and had a big BBQ (no booze) to show that gun owners are regular people who enjoy being outdoors and spending time with friends and family. Showing up unannounced to a place of business not owned by anyone in your protest group is going to make people uncomfortable. Some of these liberals have been trained since they were toddlers to fear guns, especially the big bad assault ghost rifles with .30 caliber clips and the people that own them. You have to ease them into being around you and the guns and educate them to our logical reasons for owning them. Most of us don't want to be Rambo, 99% of us put our CCW on and hope the next time it comes off is when we are putting it away again. I approve of their message, but their delivery of it was terrible.

[Big E3]

I still have a problem with how Chipotle handled this. If they don't want people open to carry in their restaurant, fine with me, put up a sign that addresses that problem "No open carry or long guns permitted". But when they made a decision to prohibit concealed as well and only allow LEO carry then they have now kowtowed to the anti gun types and I will support a boycott. It is the principal of completely giving in to anti 2A girls that offends me, they continue to chip away and we don't make a stand. Just because those idiots do something as stupid as open carrying AK's and we agree, so that makes it OK for us to agree with there complete gun ban decision. It was an over reaction on Chipotle's part that I won't condone. And yes I love their burritos, but no more for me.

[hatidua]

the chain’s statement acknowledges that “there are strong arguments on both sides of this issue” and the “vast majority of gun owners are responsible citizens and we appreciate them honoring this request. And we hope that our customers who oppose the carrying of guns in public agree with us that it is the role of elected officials and the legislative process to set policy in this area, not the role of businesses like Chipotle.”

Seems fair enough to me.