Demos Banning Guns - My Correspondence with owner

Originally Posted by clsutton21

I hope you aren't surprised.

Not surprised, just wanted to share that Peter Demos is not responding directly to your correspondence. He may have crafted the initial email, and if so good for him, but it is a subsequent copy/paste job.

Heres my letter short and to the point.

I have enjoyed eating at your restaurants in the past. But I'm sad to say I will not be coming back due to the post of no legal handguns. I have a handgun carry permit for the purpose of protecting me and my family. Thugs don't care if you post or not, its the law abiding citizens that you are keeping out. Thank You for your time Eddie

I also got the same form letter in return. I think the Demo's corporate office is still there behind the Mboro location. Maybe it's time for a drop by?

Well, Demo made one good point....

If you continue to feel strongly about this, I encourage you to contact your representatives to have them actually choose a position, and not leave it up to businesses that only want to
serve all of our customers regardless of their beliefs.

Our legislature should have done what many other state's have done and not allow establishments to post. He also made a great point on all the other things the state doesn't allow them to opt out on by citing personal property rights.

We should press the legislature to fix this.

He does make one valid point.

Everyone who was going out to eat at restaurants and bars before July 14 was doing so unarmed. And from what I read here Tennesseeans are a restaurant eating out bunch of people. Now that the spineless legislature passed a law that businesses can opt out of we all seem to be in an uproar if they choose to do so.

I dunno, I can kind of see his point in this.

Originally Posted by Mike.357

He does make one valid point.

Everyone who was going out to eat at restaurants and bars before July 14 was doing so unarmed. And from what I read here Tennesseeans are a restaurant eating out bunch of people. Now that the spineless legislature passed a law that businesses can opt out of we all seem to be in an uproar if they choose to do so.

I dunno, I can kind of see his point in this.

Well, then he should just not post. The liberal idiots that are saying they wouldn't eat anywhere someone is carrying a gun would still have problems with places now if they couldn't opt out. So they'd be pissed anyway.

I'll go ahead and write a letter to them as well. When I worked downtown I literally ate there twice a week. Their $5 meal can't be beat. I don't eat there as much as I used to, but will let them know how I feel regardless.

Well, then he should just not post.

what he is saying is that nothing has changed at his restaurants. No guns on July 13 and no guns now. Same difference.

What I don't understand is that there are next to zero instances of any shootings at Wendy's or Burger King so what makes places like any different. Also, it is not in the restaurant that I want my gun with me, it is on the way in and on the way out.

Why not suggest to those who don't want to lose patrons to post the innocuous "Gun with a slash" sign. That way their mornic customers feel better about themselves, and we can ignore it as being an unlawful method of posting?