Maine restaurant owner tells assault rifle supporters: Take your business elsewhere [View all]
Source: Portland Press Herald
For 12 years, Anne Verrill kept her politics out of her business.
But after this weekend’s massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Verrill could no longer stay silent. Late Tuesday, she went where most people now go to voice their opinions – Facebook – to share her thoughts on the latest mass shooting and the role of guns in American culture.
The backlash was swift – and angry – both on Facebook and Yelp, where many people post their opinions of restaurants.
On the Facebook pages of her two restaurants, Grace in Portland and Foreside Tavern in Falmouth, Verrill wrote, in part: “If you own this gun, or you condone the ownership of this gun for private use, you may no longer enter either of my restaurants, because the only thing I want to teach my children is love.”
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