"Country music star Toby Keith seems to have lost his "good ol' boy" standing with throngs of Second Amendment worshipers all across America over the sacrilegious (to them) "no guns permitted" sign posted on the door of his newest restaurant in gun-friendly Virginia.
Fresh off the uproar over the Phil Robertson suspension from every redneck's favorite show, Duck Dynasty, the gun ban at Keith's newest restaurant promises to push those folk's collective blood pressure into downright dangerous territory. And if some of the messages being seen on Facebook and other social media is any indication, these people are every bit as angry as they were over the Duck Dynasty quackery.
And of course, all of these pissed off people completely miss this little detail: Toby Keith himself did not make the decision to ban guns from this particular restaurant in Woodbridge, Virginia. The restaurant is a privately-owned franchise, and those owners made that decision. Other Toby Keith restaurants allow open carry at those locations.
But no matter. These gun-toting folks need a target. Even if it's not the right one. Hopefully this isn't a metaphor for how skilled they are at identifying and shooting their targets with their beloved guns.
One other small detail… In the state of Virginia, you may open carry into any restaurant or bar that allows it, and while the law is vague on drinking while open carrying, if you drink and have a concealed weapon on you, then you're breaking the law.
Here is just a sampling of some of the posts on the Facebook page of the Toby Keith restaurant with the offending message, as well as the Toby Keith Facebook page.
And of course, in addition to the above mentioned-ignorance, you'll see the obligatory "that vermin is violatin' the consitushion!" theme in some of these messages…
Keith is fake and hates guns so much that he titled one of his albums "Bullets in the Gun". And besides, it wasn't Keith who decided to not permit guns in this particular restaurant."
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