"No Rules, Just Right" gets it wrong

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"No Rules, Just Right" gets it wrong

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In a public post on Facebook, Andrew Ward shared the experience. He said he was asked by a manager to remove his weapon and put it in his vehicle. He explained that he had to have it on his person because he was in uniform.

According to the post, the manager made a phone call, and then asked the officer to leave citing company policy that makes Outback a gun free zone.

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Ward said Outback contacted him and apologized. They also gave him a $100 gift card.

In a follow-up Facebook post, Ward shared why the manager confronted him. He says a patron at another table reported being scared for her life.

"She said police are shooting people, and she could have gotten shot in the parking lot, and the manager had to walked her and her husband to their vehicle," Ward wrote in one of three posts he published about the incident. "We were told it was a policy they don't allow guns - if we would have known there was a complaint we would not have went anywhere! Seriously, she was scared for her life? We were joking and laughing with our server as we ordered, then prayed. What was scary about that?"
Can anyone blame the citizen who has been taught to fear all guns and "Obey the cops or be destroyed" for feeling "scared for her life"? That as a given, and Outback's policy being everyone's comfort / safety (an impossible task because this patron is only comfortable in a world without guns and others are only comfortable with one at the ready), how can Outback help but play this wrong. Oh yeah. There's an exception:
A second spokesperson with the corporate office at Outback Steakhouse said law enforcement is an exception to its policy.

"We've always allowed uniformed law enforcement officers to carry their sides arms inside our restaurants. A manager made a mistake and we have discussed this with her. We have contacted the guest personally and apologize. Law enforcement is the exception to our policy. We are a restaurant where families often dine and where liquor is served and merely want all of our guests to feel comfortable."
Outback doesn't want to base their policy on American Philosophies of Individual Liberty and Freedom, self-ownership and the Right to defend the families they love having as patrons. Outback would rather deprive the common family man the ability to carry tools of defense and exempt those given magical government training and special laws who can carry anytime, anywhere without concern for the "justice" system being weaponized against them. (And all the 2A orgs sang in chorus with an overwhelming AMEN.)

If the scales of justice were even, could the fear filled female patron not have commanded the officer to disarm on the spot and take actions to neutralize him in the nanosecond after making such commands? Assuming, of course, that such commands are even necessary.

Gun free zones are antithetical to America.
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