Guns being glamourized is not good but a restaurant in Colorado, USA seems to do good business with its waitresses openly carrying loaded guns!
This is a 2014 youtube video published by ABC News: Colorado Restaurant Staff Proudly Open-Carries Handguns, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb1VldFpRG8, 7 min. 44 secs.
This restaurant continues in the same way in 2018 as per article: Armed and ready to feed you: Shooters Grill in Rifle serves up barbecue with a gun on the side, https://www.denverpost.com/2018/06/22/shooters-grill-rifle-waitresses-guns/, 22nd June 2018
This is in a town called Rifle! I think such stuff can happen in our early 21st century, only in the USA!
It is like the Old West in here, says the owner lady of Shooters Grill. She also says, "My firearms have nothing to do with the amazing hamburgers that we cook." The lady and her husband own the restaurant. They have four children.
A deputy (police officer) of Colorado who lost his nephew in the Aurora, Colorado theatre mass shooting in 2012, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Aurora_shooting, says, "This is America. They are allowed to do that. But you can't glamorize the gun. The gun will never be a glamourous thing. Its just an object".
Ravi: I entirely agree with the above views of the police officer.
The restaurant owner lady responds to a question: "What's violent about it (carrying a gun)? What's violent about law-abiding citizens carrying a gun?"
The interviewer says, "Lot of people don't want to be around firearms. Don't want their families around it. This is not necessarily normal everywhere."
She responds, "I think it should be normal everywhere. You know, I think it should be a common sight. We would have a lot less violence if it was."
The owner-lady says that all of her employees have to take classes and know how to handle their weapons.
The police chief of Rifle says, "I understand why some people from the outside may see this as a little bit odd. But for here, it's really quite normal. They really stress the classes, no alcohol is served. So this business model that they have really fits in with the community." .. "And the burgers are great!", he says with a laugh!
Ravi: Hmm. In my stay in the USA in the 1980s and early 1990s, for around 21 months spread over three separate trips, I have never ever seen a restaurant owner and/or waiters/waitresses open-carrying a gun. But then I was in New England (New Hampshire and Massachusetts) for most of the time, and in California for a couple of months. Note that at least some parts of Colorado were considered to be part of the Wild West of the USA in the past.
I am sure I would have freaked out if I had seen a waiter or a waitress open-carrying a gun and asking me what food & drink I would like to order!
The USA has an extraordinary and very deep association with guns in the hands of its citizens. Whatever its negatives may be, these gun carrying folks in the USA sure are tough and hardy folks who are in a position to give a good fight to people who try to rob them or do worse things to them. I think that is a reality that one has to accept. An armed citizen who is trained in the use of arms and knows how to use them, cannot be pushed over easily by others.
The big downside perhaps may be the increase in gun violence where the gun is used as an offensive weapon and not in defense, due to the easy availability of guns among the citizens.
BTW I am NOT advocating for gun ownership by citizens in USA or anywhere else. I am just making observations about the reality of gun ownership in the USA. One may or may not like such reality but if one lives in or even visits an open-carry town or state in the USA where significant number of its citizens openly carry guns, one has to deal with that reality.
[I thank ABC News and have presumed that they will not have any objections to me sharing the above quotes from their video on this post which is freely viewable by all, and does not have any financial profit motive whatsoever.]
This restaurant continues in the same way in 2018 as per article: Armed and ready to feed you: Shooters Grill in Rifle serves up barbecue with a gun on the side, https://www.denverpost.com/2018/06/22/shooters-grill-rifle-waitresses-guns/, 22nd June 2018
This is in a town called Rifle! I think such stuff can happen in our early 21st century, only in the USA!
It is like the Old West in here, says the owner lady of Shooters Grill. She also says, "My firearms have nothing to do with the amazing hamburgers that we cook." The lady and her husband own the restaurant. They have four children.
A deputy (police officer) of Colorado who lost his nephew in the Aurora, Colorado theatre mass shooting in 2012, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Aurora_shooting, says, "This is America. They are allowed to do that. But you can't glamorize the gun. The gun will never be a glamourous thing. Its just an object".
Ravi: I entirely agree with the above views of the police officer.
The restaurant owner lady responds to a question: "What's violent about it (carrying a gun)? What's violent about law-abiding citizens carrying a gun?"
The interviewer says, "Lot of people don't want to be around firearms. Don't want their families around it. This is not necessarily normal everywhere."
She responds, "I think it should be normal everywhere. You know, I think it should be a common sight. We would have a lot less violence if it was."
The owner-lady says that all of her employees have to take classes and know how to handle their weapons.
The police chief of Rifle says, "I understand why some people from the outside may see this as a little bit odd. But for here, it's really quite normal. They really stress the classes, no alcohol is served. So this business model that they have really fits in with the community." .. "And the burgers are great!", he says with a laugh!
Ravi: Hmm. In my stay in the USA in the 1980s and early 1990s, for around 21 months spread over three separate trips, I have never ever seen a restaurant owner and/or waiters/waitresses open-carrying a gun. But then I was in New England (New Hampshire and Massachusetts) for most of the time, and in California for a couple of months. Note that at least some parts of Colorado were considered to be part of the Wild West of the USA in the past.
I am sure I would have freaked out if I had seen a waiter or a waitress open-carrying a gun and asking me what food & drink I would like to order!
The USA has an extraordinary and very deep association with guns in the hands of its citizens. Whatever its negatives may be, these gun carrying folks in the USA sure are tough and hardy folks who are in a position to give a good fight to people who try to rob them or do worse things to them. I think that is a reality that one has to accept. An armed citizen who is trained in the use of arms and knows how to use them, cannot be pushed over easily by others.
The big downside perhaps may be the increase in gun violence where the gun is used as an offensive weapon and not in defense, due to the easy availability of guns among the citizens.
BTW I am NOT advocating for gun ownership by citizens in USA or anywhere else. I am just making observations about the reality of gun ownership in the USA. One may or may not like such reality but if one lives in or even visits an open-carry town or state in the USA where significant number of its citizens openly carry guns, one has to deal with that reality.
[I thank ABC News and have presumed that they will not have any objections to me sharing the above quotes from their video on this post which is freely viewable by all, and does not have any financial profit motive whatsoever.]
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