Not wanting to derail another gun debate, here is my $.02 on Open Carry Texas with a different spin. I originally wrote this on FB the other day when Sonic and Chili’s made statements about their policies, which hit the news.
But…
The media coverup has been quite effective - there’s not a single person I have discussed this with here in SA that knew this occurred in SA.
All right, y’all may carry on with your previously scheduled conversation. 
Yeah, fuck the Pit. Only sissyboys and limp-dick assholes post in those threads.
Don’t forget the other brave folks who stare you down and run their mouths from behind their computer screens.
Is this a whoosh, or did you just lose track of which forum this thread was in? (No harm either way, just curious.)
Yeah, I lost track of that. Thanks.
ETA: Now I get Vinyl’s post. I’m having a slow moment. 
And the truth comes out in the Las Vegas cop killings: the lone civilian killed in the Wal-Mart was armed with a legal handgun when he decided to “confront the shooter”
A good guy with a gun isn’t much use against *two *bad guys with guns, apparently.
Most guns are semi-automatic, I own a semi-automatic BB gun. The term “assault weapon” is a made up phrase much like “high powered rifle” or “high capacity magazine”. They are arbitrary terms that are used to invoke emotional responses among people who are generally ignorant of gun and their functions. If you would have said rifles instead of “semi-automatics an other assault weapons” you would have come off as a lot less soccer momish, just saying.
One instance hardly proves any point. Armed police officers have been gunned down before, I still think its prudent that they are armed.
Bruce, I don’t care if these guns are technically “assault rifles”, “assault weapons”, “automatic weapons”, “semi-automatic weapons”, “high capacity widow makers”, or whatever. Proper nomenclature in an internet post has no bearing on the fact that people were walking into restaurants with guns of the types shown in the video and the local media didn’t report it.
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Breaking News!
Some people did something that was completely legal!
More at 11!
Yeah, it *was *stupid. But that’s not newsworthy…
We’re talking local news, an entity that reports high school fights and fender benders on local streets. Hard hitting stuff.
If the “people bringing guns to the Chili’s down the street” isn’t news, why is “Chili’s doesn’t want you bringing guns to their restaurants” news? Isn’t it a free country? Can’t Chili’s decide what they allow in their restaurants? :rolleyes:
Does this stuff even air in San Antonio? I don’t live there, so couldn’t tell you. I can tell you I’ve *never *heard any details about fender benders (that didn’t have a major impact on traffic) or high school fights (that didn’t involve a death, hospitalization or a hate crime) on local news.
Of course they can decide what’s allowable in their restaurants. That’s why I said the gun-carrying thing was stupid. Kind of like raising a stink after getting kicked out for being barefoot. Again, stupid != newsworthy.
I live here and can tell you. That was the point of my post - the local media did not bother to mention “guys are bringing serious firearms to local restaurants because they want to make a misguided point” but they do report “restaurant chain bans firearms” without even mentioning that the actions that lead the restaurants to take this step occurred within their coverage area.
shrug
Can’t tell you their reasoning, then.
If I had to guess, it would be that since open carrying is legal, the restaurant’s reaction is the first actual bit of “news.” I can sort-of understand it that way - a corporation’s policy change is “news,” however, people doing foolish, but non-illegal actions, is not. Or, possibly, they knew of the political motivations of those idiots, and didn’t want to encourage them.
edit: I’m rather surprised that the #7 population city in the US wastes news-time on high-school fights and fender-benders.
It’s a small #7. Here are the local news highlights on KSAT.com:
… Hazmat crew investigates suspicious package in downtown SA
… Classic Harley stolen from grandmother
… Missing man, 83, found safe
… Alleged drunken driver crashes into nursing home
… 2 injured in hit-and-run crash
… Small fire forces evacuation at River Walk hotel
… SAPD works to keep revelers safe after Spurs wins
… ‘San Antonio: The Saga’ to debut at San Fernando
… Info sought in woman’s hit-and-run death
… Solar advocates, business leaders sound off on proposed fees
I see two, maybe three items of note (Hazmat, hotel fire, and solar fees), and a bunch of reporting on auto accidents of various severity. Oh, and the story about the grandmother who lost her Harley. That’s more important than “misguided asshats taking assault rifles into local eateries”, apparently. 
But there actually was, you know, a crime involved…
(note: there’s no way in hell these guys actually had assault rifles. The semi-auto civilian models of them (which are just rifles,) sure.)
Yeah. And don’t call a call Corvette a “sports car;” it’s just an automobile.
“Sports car” isn’t a phrase used to appeal to emotion. “Assault weapons” is.
Huh? It most cetainly is.