Louisiana Restaurant Offers 10% Discount If You Have A Gun
Bergeron’s restaurant in Port Allen, Louisiana thinks it has a niche for itself among gun owners and wants to encourage them to come in packing.
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The new discount is in direct response to a growing number of restaurant chains who have recently banned guns.
“There are people here with guns, this is not a gun-free zone,” said Bergeron’s owner Kevin Cox to The Huffington Post. “So if you want to cause trouble, you can think about who you’re sitting next to.”
Cox says that he hopes patrons will feel safer by knowing that the person sitting next to them is carrying a gun should something bad happen.
“It makes us all feel better when state patrol, police and sheriff’s department come in and have lunch here because you know when they’re here we’re safe,” said Cox. “And I realized that we have a lot of good people that carry a firearm in Louisiana — my cousins and relatives included — and I’m equally as safe when they’re here, and I need to encourage that.”[su_csky_ad]
arc99 November 13th, 2014 at 12:57 pm
It has always been an article of faith for responsible firearms use that you never carry your weapon unless you are fully prepared to use it.
Uncle Joe who has not been to the target range in months decides to be a hero to stop a suspected crime and starts shooting in a crowded restaurant.
What could possibly go wrong? I feel so safe now.
Red Eye Robot November 13th, 2014 at 1:13 pm
Are you at all bothered that what you predict never happens? there are 11,000,000+ people carrying concealed in America.they are 7x LESS likely to be involved in any crime than the general population
edmeyer_able November 13th, 2014 at 2:06 pm
Yea just because the police did that 18 hours ago doesn’t mean a civilian is that stupid. Or the homeowners who shot their wives, daughters, doing that or Oscar Pistorius because those incidents don’t really count.
Or the guy who shot his roommate earlier this week.
Are you really that pathetic?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/12/police-mistakenly-shoot-911-caller-manhunt/18901533/
http://news.yahoo.com/homeowner-mistakes-guest-intruder-shoots-him-135844342.html
tiredoftea November 13th, 2014 at 5:04 pm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/9715182/ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457502000490
Now STFU about 7x less likely!
Red Eye Robot November 15th, 2014 at 6:27 am
What your article didn’t tell you was Kellermans study found that 71% of the victims had high rates of criminal activity.Do you think that might have more to do with homicide than gun ownership? The study doesn’t say whether the gun used was owned by the victim or was brought into the residence by the shooter. Then there is demographics. Not all groups are equally represented. Black people are victims of homicide at 4x the national rate. If kellermans study is accurate that means black people own guns at 4x the national average. (that would be 158%), Hispanic people are victims 2x tha national rate, Is Hispanic gun ownership 2x the national average?
edmeyer_able November 13th, 2014 at 1:00 pm
I bet those who were at Cici’s pizza felt safe the day the bundy crowd stopped in.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 13th, 2014 at 1:02 pm
So what is the problem here??? Looks to me like an entrepreneur trying to cash in on the pro 2A crowd.
arc99 November 13th, 2014 at 1:04 pm
No real problem other than the misconception that more “good guys with guns” make us safer.
No it does not, no more so than more vehicles on the road make us safer from car crashes.
More good guys with guns simply means more opportunities to be killed or injured by someone else’s negligence.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 13th, 2014 at 1:10 pm
I guess it is all whose eyes are looking are through.
tiredoftea November 13th, 2014 at 1:12 pm
How about the eyes of children who were injured or died this year?
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 13th, 2014 at 1:15 pm
Or from the eyes of those that defended themselves or of loved ones.
Anomaly 100 November 13th, 2014 at 1:16 pm
Do they serve booze?
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 13th, 2014 at 1:26 pm
Can I have some ????
Anomaly 100 November 13th, 2014 at 2:49 pm
I’ll make you a drink anytime, but you can’t come over if you’re open carrying:-)
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 13th, 2014 at 2:58 pm
What if I am open Carrying these ???
Anomaly 100 November 13th, 2014 at 3:10 pm
The breasts or the booze? If you have some appletinis in there, hurry over!
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 13th, 2014 at 3:14 pm
Appletinis for you – Bourbon for me !!!
Anomaly 100 November 13th, 2014 at 3:44 pm
Deal! You’re welcome to drop by anytime. (just bring the appletinis with you!)
edmeyer_able November 13th, 2014 at 1:18 pm
Or the loved one’s that were shot by their partner. Fact is a gun in the home is 27X more likely to injure a member of the household, but you know this and continue to be a shill for the nra.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 13th, 2014 at 1:27 pm
27 X ???? Sounds like you are listening to MOMS faulty data to much. But of course a gun in the home has a higher probability then no gun in the home.
tiredoftea November 13th, 2014 at 1:25 pm
Many fewer of those!
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 13th, 2014 at 1:26 pm
that I would think we would need to review. I tend to believe it is much further the other way.
tiredoftea November 13th, 2014 at 1:55 pm
No, your beliefs are at odds with the facts.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 13th, 2014 at 3:00 pm
If you are trying to refer that there are more accidental child shootings or accidents then there are people who have actually used a firearm for protection. I think you would be very hard pressed to find that to be factual. None the less, even try to offer some form of proof.
tiredoftea November 13th, 2014 at 3:07 pm
You seem to have no problems with the googles when it suits you, I suggest you provide facts to counter my assertions.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 13th, 2014 at 3:50 pm
So here is a couple of tasty tid-bits for you. I even attempted to be fair in where I selected the information.
So this Article: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/01/27/3206581/kids-gun-violence-killed-injuries/
Says, that there are over 10,000 cases a year of accidental, intentional, and suicide shootings of children per year. What skews the numbers is. It is listed for children up to the age of “20”… And with no Break down of age groups. That being said, that is the article that I found that had the highest numbers. As well as it should, considering they are considering teens and young adults to be children.
Now if you were to listen to the NRA and the Gary Kleck report, they would have you believe that the number of self defense uses would be close to 2.5 million. And if you were to subscribe to the theory of David Hemenway of Harvard, he would tell you that the number is closer to 67,000. While “other social scientists have suggested that perhaps a figure somewhere between 250,000 and 370,000 might be more accurate.”
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-27/how-often-do-we-use-guns-in-self-defense
tiredoftea November 13th, 2014 at 4:15 pm
From the Businessweek article:
1. We don’t know exactly how frequently defensive gun use occurs.
It only cited estimates, mostly from the gun lobby. You might have better, factual numbers of defensive gun use, but the NRA has lobbied against it and Congress has denied funding for the research.
Sorry, but the hard facts of injured and dead children should be the more persuasive argument where loose guns and their owner’s are concerned.
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 13th, 2014 at 4:29 pm
Even by the extreme opposite with the Harvard prof, still puts his figure at 60,000 ++
Where as the article I cited in your favor includes young adults, and intentional shootings, not accidents.
tiredoftea November 13th, 2014 at 5:12 pm
This Dr. Hemenway’s research, without the accompanying tables, you will note that the forty three reported incidents does not equal 60,000:
SELF DEFENSE GUN USE
On the 1996 survey, 14 civilian respondents reported using a gun in self defense in the past five years, accounting for 54 incidents. On the 1999 survey, 29 civilian respondents reported using a gun in self defense, accounting for 92 gun uses. For both surveys combined, a total of 146 self defense gun uses were reported by 43 people who were not police, military personnel, or security guards.
Self defense gun use by respondents
In each survey, the number of respondents reporting that they were gun victims exceeded the number of respondents reporting that they had used a gun in self defense by over three to one, 152 to 43 (p<0.001) overall.
On both surveys combined, 2.9% of gun owners, 0.3% of those living in the home with someone who owns a gun, and 0.4% of non-gun owners reported a self defense gun use (table 3). After eliminating police, security guards and military personnel, approximately 1% of respondents reported a self defense gun use (43/4378).
Number (%) of individuals reporting a self defense gun use by reported gun ownership
Of the 43 respondents reporting a self defense gun use, six did not provide a description of the most recent event, and for two more the descriptions indicated that the respondent did not use the firearm (for example, one never encountered the thieves who had stolen his truck). The criminal court judges were shown summaries of the remaining 35 events; each judge rated each event. Twenty per cent of the time a judge rated a case as “as likely legal as illegal”. Excluding these ratings (when judges often said there was not enough information), a majority of the judges rated 18 of the 35 (51%) as probably illegal and 15 of the 35 (43%) as probably legal. For two there was no majority opinion. In 23 of 35 events the judges were unanimous in their ratings; nine times there was one dissenter; and in three instances the ratings were either 3–2 or 2–2 in terms of the probable legality of the self defense gun use.
Two examples from the 1999 survey of incidents that were unanimously deemed probably illegal were:
• A 62 year old male said that at 6 pm “the police called. My alarm at my business went off so I went there to shut it off. Two men were outside my building, so from my car I shot at the ground near them”. The respondent said the men were trespassing.
• A 58 year old male was inside his home at 2 pm. “I was watching a movie and [an acquaintance] interrupted me. I yelled that I was going to shoot him and he ran to his car”. The respondent said his acquaintance was committing a verbal assault. The respondent's gun, a .44 Magnum, was located “in my holster on me”.
Two examples of self defense gun use from the 1999 survey that were unanimously deemed probably legal were:
• A 26 year old male was with friends at another's home. At 8:30 am “a friend of mine was in the process of getting robbed and he was drunk. We went to help him just as the robbers were leaving”. The respondent's gun was not loaded and “I never really took it out of my pocket”.
• A 38 year old male was inside his home at 4 am. “Someone broke in; I woke up to the sound. I got my gun from the safe [loaded it] and went downstairs. The person left and I called the police”. The respondent did not know whether the burglar had a weapon.
Over two thirds (68%) of the 146 self defense gun use incidents from the two surveys were reported by six respondents. Three people claimed 50, 20 and 15 self defense incidents in the previous five years, but refused to describe the most recent event. In the 1999 survey, an 18 year old male reported six cases. He described the most recent incident: “I was at school and they pulled a gun during an argument. They fired and I fired”.
Dwendt44 November 14th, 2014 at 1:28 pm
‘I have a gun, nobody broke into my house last night so that’s one more case of my gun preventing a crime.’
And people believe that?
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 14th, 2014 at 1:47 pm
Funny, I left a loaded shotgun on the font porch for a day, just to see what it would do. it never got up and attacked the mail man, the UPS man, or the group of kids playing in the front lawn.
It must be defective..
Dwendt44 November 14th, 2014 at 2:34 pm
I bet. Assuming you actually have a porch, I bet it scared away a few people though, not knowing what kind of gun nut lives there.
Why aren’t you claiming that it prevented a crime and add to the ‘proof’ that guns prevent more crime that they commit?
Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 14th, 2014 at 4:17 pm
NO, it just sat there, leaned up against the wall. I was actually very impressed. I did not think they could just sit there for so long without getting up on their own.
But it did prevent a crime. It didn’t kill anybody…
fahvel November 14th, 2014 at 5:04 am
give the readers here a list of all the gun toters who have saved their children and homes from the evil ones by having a gun!!!
fahvel November 14th, 2014 at 5:03 am
smoke covered shades?
Suzanne McFly November 13th, 2014 at 5:43 pm
What restaurant are you going to that you feel it is better to be armed?
fahvel November 14th, 2014 at 5:02 am
McDonalds might be one since they serve poison.
tiredoftea November 13th, 2014 at 1:13 pm
“Cox says that he hopes patrons will feel safer by knowing that the person sitting next to them is carrying a gun should something bad happen.”, like that same loon deciding that he’d rather have the 100% discount that robbing the place at gunpoint provides?
Roctuna November 13th, 2014 at 1:36 pm
Let’s just hope no one starts cleaning their weapons there. That seems to be when all the responsible gun owners have so much trouble these days.
edmeyer_able November 13th, 2014 at 1:47 pm
Just because a trained police officer shot his pregnant wife in the head doesn’t mean that cousin joe w/a 5th grade education is that stupid.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/10/trooper-shot-wife-pregnant...
Bunya November 13th, 2014 at 2:11 pm
This is a great idea! Next time your steak is overdone, there’s no need to argue with the waitress – just shoot her dead! Problem solved.
mmaynard119 November 13th, 2014 at 4:31 pm
Notice that this was only offered since Anomaly has no longer been living there.
edmeyer_able November 13th, 2014 at 4:45 pm
Anomaly=Annie Oakley how did I not see this before, it’s so obvious now.
thinkingwomanmillstone November 13th, 2014 at 5:16 pm
As long as he posts a sign that gun nuts are inside, I’m fine with his policy. There are plenty of other businesses to give my business to. Restaurants are among the least likely to succeed businesses. It’s nice that he’s narrowing down his potential customer pool and making it much harder on himself. Who’d want peace loving customers anyway. He’d rather have paranoid, violence prone gun toting ammosexuals. I would think that his law enforcement patrons would feel much better if even they were sitting among unarmed diners. They get pretty trigger happy over the least little thing…someone reaching for the salt could be enough to make them in fear for their lives. Bye Bye…
Suzanne McFly November 13th, 2014 at 5:41 pm
How bad are your patrons that you accept guns in your restaurant because you want people to act accordingly?
“There are people here with guns, this is not a gun-free zone,” said Bergeron’s owner Kevin Cox to The Huffington Post. “So if you want to cause trouble, you can think about who you’re sitting next to.”
fahvel November 14th, 2014 at 5:00 am
and what exactly are these pathetic things afraid of???