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niyad

(112,436 posts)
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 12:31 PM Oct 2015

‘Oath Keepers’ To Boycott Waffle House Until It Apologizes For Being Mean To Guns

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‘Oath Keepers’ To Boycott Waffle House Until It Apologizes For Being Mean To Guns


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It's Waffle House. Wouldn't carrying Pepto Bismol make more sense?


Looks like the great patriots of that lovable anti-government paramilitary group the “Oath Keepers” are expanding their self-defined mission from protecting wildcat miners on public land and deadbeat welfare ranchers into the exciting world of organizing consumer boycotts! These brave defenders of the Constitution are all het up about a September incident at a Waffle House in Nicholasville, Kentucky, in which National Guard member Billy Welch was asked to please leave his holstered handgun in his car, since the restaurant chain has a policy against open carrying of weapons by anyone but law enforcement officers. Welch later told TV station WLEX that no sir, he just couldn’t abide the thought of eating a meal — or whatever it is you get at Waffle House at 2 AM — without his trusty gun:
“I don’t feel comfortable taking my firearm away from me. I always keep it with me and they said, ‘it’s one of our policies.’”
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A young woman who saw this brazen disrespect of both a uniformed National Guardsman and the Second Amendment wrote an impassioned Facebook post about it, the story made it onto the GunBlogosphere, and eventually the Oath Keepers decided it was time to launch a boycott of the Waffle House chain, for disrespecting the military and the Holy Second Amendment. Oath Keepers blogger person David Codrea vowed that he will never set foot in a Waffle House again “until they change their policy, publicly apologize, and begin proactively supporting and promoting the right to keep and bear arms.” That last bit is a nice touch: Not only does the chain have to allow open carry, it has to promote it, possibly by offering smothered and covered 9 millimeter rounds as a side dish.

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In addition to restating that the Waffle House franchise in Nicholasville does indeed bar open carry, franchise owner Ray Daniels issued a statement explaining that media reports of the incident left something out: A few weeks prior to the night he was asked to put away his gun, Billy Welch “was an active participant in a fight on the premises” of the restaurant, and was “restrained and taken off the premises by off-duty police officers that were eating in the restaurant at the time.” The Oath Keepers blog doesn’t buy this at all, insisting that, as with so many of the conspiracies aimed at taking away our guns and impurifying our precious bodily fluids, Daniels’s claim was nothing but a “diversion to mask discrimination against all gun owners.”

The other thing that leaves us scratching our heads like Columbo about the incident is why Mr. Welch was carrying what seems to be his privately owned handgun while in uniform. WLEX was careful to get a dramatic shot of the holstered weapon when they interviewed Welch, who was then wearing his civilian clothes:

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welch pistol

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Read more at http://wonkette.com/594627/oath-keepers-to-boycott-waffle-house-unitl-it-apologizes-for-being-mean-to-guns#7ckSUALp7pGcxkLJ.99

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Wounded Bear

(58,440 posts)
1. Isn't that the group that started out by...
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 12:56 PM
Oct 2015

blathering how much they loved their wives and shit? As long as they stayed barefoot, pregnant, and doing household chores, that is?

Wounded Bear

(58,440 posts)
4. Oh yeah, similar name, though.
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 01:06 PM
Oct 2015

It wouldn't surprise me at all if they were affiliated in the bizarro RW serial victimhood world.

Mendocino

(7,431 posts)
5. Oathkeepers
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 01:25 PM
Oct 2015

are the brownshirt army branch of the NRA. Showed up at the Bundy ranch, turned and ran when their capo spread a rumor that the government was going to take them out with a missile strike.

underpants

(182,281 posts)
7. "If you've never eaten at a Waffle House, imagine ...
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 11:18 AM
Oct 2015

someone cooking eggs in the bathroom of the bus station while smoking a cigarette"
- Jim Gaffigan

niyad

(112,436 posts)
8. shouldn't have laughed, but. . . .come to think of it, I don't recall ever eating at a waffle house.
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 11:19 AM
Oct 2015

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,273 posts)
11. My first thought was "makes sense in a drunk-food dive to not want armed patrons"
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 08:07 PM
Oct 2015

Turns out the d-bag gun humper was in a brawl in the restaraunt a couple weeks prior.

 

Taitertots

(7,745 posts)
14. Boycotting the place that told them to leave.
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 10:39 PM
Oct 2015

The adult version of flipping the monopoly board and going home.

Someone at Waffle House HQ is probably thinking "boycott away bozos".

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