Years ago, Denny's used to have anti-CCW signs here in Florida after the CCW laws were passed.
Just so happens my wife and I were employed as dealers in a casino aboard a ship that sailed out of downtown Miami. Dealers work for tips, which means cash, so I got my CCW (the captain of the ship was a great guy, he let me carry my sidearm on board and secure it in a ship's locker while I worked!). We usually got off work late at night, and the only place to grab a bite on the way home that late at night was, you guessed it, Denny's.
So we stopped going to Denny's to eat, because it was in a lousy neighborhood and I certainly wasn't going there unarmed. But not before I had a polite chat with the manager. And later I wrote a letter to Denny's corporate office. Guess what? Thanks to the power of internet activism / coordinated boycotting, Denny's signs came down after a few weeks. Never had a problem with Denny's since.
I can't really boycott Waffle House, because I don't already eat there (OK, maybe once every 4-5 years). But if someone can post their corporate contact info, I'll be happy to write them a letter. Too lazy to look it up just now, I'm overdue for some R&R.
Now, as to: "My point is simply this: If WH is so adamantly anti-gun, then why is this little fact not posted in the "House Rules" that I've mentioned? No signs, no letters, no posted anything. You'd think that WH would want to ensure that their customers absolutely knew the rules, and that they would post them. "
Here's MY wild-ass guess hypothetical answer to this question: Because WH may not really be so anti-gun, that's just in their corp policy because their attorney told them to CYA in case they ever have a shooting on their premises, they can point to their policy and say, "See, we TRIED to prevent this!". But as long as it's in the corp policy, they can let each store manager choose whether on not to enforce this. But that's just my WAG. Now, if that's really the case, it wouldn't be beneficial for wprebeck to quiz them and have them say, "Yes, that's the policy", because then wprebeck might not have the discretion which allows him to let law-abiding citizens carry in Waffle House.
Oh, and wprebeck, regarding: "Ah...the everpresent (at least on THR) "Are you a JBT LEO" question....", there's no need for the question, after hanging out on this board for a while it becomes real obvious who the JBTs are (you don't sound like one to me) and who the stand-up cops are. Although I must confess that some of the "LEOs" who post here sound like such extreme JBTs that I have had to wonder whether they're really cops, or anti-cop trolls trying to make cops look bad, like the guy who implied I was a pothead (wrong again, mister) because I criticized the War On (some) Drugs. Too bad that thread was closed before I had the chance to respond.
So, in passing, I say, "No guns, no money!" and I hoist my adult beverage and say "Cheers!" to all you police here and everywhere else who do your jobs without trashing the Constitution or screwing over law-abiding citizens. I know you're out there, and I imagine you guys are the ones we just don't hear about.
