Nicky Santoro
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Outback Steakhouse in Fairfax does NOT want our money
Vote with your dollars. You did well.
Vote with your dollars. You did well.
Outback=Australia=no guns
They are individually marinated in tenderizer and a spice mix to hide the taste of the tenderizer and then cryovaced. They might be in that cryovac pouch for months before they get to your table. Prime aged steak needs only salt and pepper to be at its most mouthwatering tender best. Prime aged steak in a non chain steakhouse or fine dining restaurant costs the operators three times as much as the chemical suprises that you get at chain steakhouses. You MIGHT pay twice as much. As always you pay now or you pay later. I had always rather stress my wallet than my digestive tract.
I think the likelihood of having to defend oneself during that 45 minute meal would be miniscule,
Luby's 2The fundamental reason why workplace killing sprees are allowed to progress unchecked is that there is only one gun present, that of the nutcase doing the shooting. Like the one-eyed man in the land of the blind, a lunatic with a gun in a land of unarmed people is king. Suzanne Gratia, survivor of the Luby's shooting in Texas several years ago, was the most articulate spokesperson for such thinking-- that there was one gun too few in the cafeteria that dreadful day-- but we continue to see rampages going unopposed in states like Massachusetts with strict gun control. Not so in Virginia.
JD8, Outback is a NRA sponsor, they cannot have it both ways. Politics or not, individual owner or not, the NRA or Outback needs to fix this.
I think the likelihood of having to defend oneself during that 45 minute meal would be miniscule, far, far less than the risk of getting back in that car and heading off at 55 miles per hour in traffic.
To me.... carrying in a restaurant is tactically stupid. Too many people around you that know you have a weapon which are out of your view. Open carry walking a dog? Sure.... In a crowded restaurant packed with people? Just don't see it... I guess I just prefer to be concealed. YMMV.
Human life and safety does have a price, and we price it everyday, in the choices we make taking risks everyday, from the infinitesimal (ie. climbing stairs, or, I contend, going into Outback unarmed) to the severe (rock climbing or going to a gunfight unarmed). Living is a risk. There's way too many threats in life as it is. Avoid the more probable ones, don't sweat the miniscule.
True.Everyone on this board does dozens of things each day that are statistically more dangerous than going into a restaurant in Fairfax, VA unarmed.
If there are other restaurant options in Fairfax that don't kick you out for packing then why not go there instead?
I might not be with you on the gun show thing, but I am with you guys on this one.