No Open Carry at Trump Towers

The Donald's properties are apparently not open for gun loving.

Donald Trump’s assertion at Wednesday's Republican presidential debate that “sickos” take advantage of gun-free zones to kill people is complicated, it turns out, by the fact that many of his own hotel properties don’t allow weapons, even if properly permitted.

Hypocritical? Just a little. Let's move on to the sane person in the story. 

This week, a Maine restaurant owner named Michael Rossney provided an example of how small business owners are dealing with the issue, when he banned, via a Facebook post, guns at his two restaurants. The move came in protest of the new constitutional-carry law, which he likened to the state allowing people to drive cars without licenses or insurance.

“It is hard to think that allowing anyone 21 or older (or 18 in some cases) to carry a loaded, concealed firearm is going to make any sort of positive impact on our society,” Mr. Rossney posted on Facebook, reported the Bangor Daily News.

Bless you, Michael Rossney!

(T)he so-called “open carry” movement that galvanized the US in 2013-14 – where gun owners at times openly carried rifles into restaurants and stores – also sent a confusing, even dangerous, message, critics say.

A main crux is it’s difficult for non-gun-carrying citizens to know the intents and motivations of gun-carriers, who have, by the laws of physics, the immediate upper hand in case of conflict.

And good for the chains that have told the second amendment performance artists to take their act elsewhere. If I'm in a diner and some clown walks in with a gun, it's the last time I eat there.