guns in restaurants
The manager of an Atlanta restaurant, Taco Mac, stopped an armed robbery Sunday morning by firing his own gun at the armed robber. What makes this story ironic is that the CEO of the company that owns this particular Taco Mac was one of the people that strenuously fought against the passage of the Georgia law last year that made it legal to carry a firearm in this restaurant.
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:35 am
What’s ironic? The CEO was home safe at the time.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:08 am
I’m in Georgia, I used to love all taco Macs. Then new management took over or the old manage lost their marbles and started changing the menu and recipes, and most of the staff left. Now the menu sucks, the food sucks, and the staff sucks. I was considering not patronizing them anymore, when they posted the “no carry permitted” signs, and that sealed the deal.
Looks like concealed carry helped out here though.
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:55 am
I used to hang at the one on Mountain Industrial Boulevard all the damned time in the early-90’s. It was about two hundred feet from my house, and less than a crow-fly mile from where I worked. It was beer-call central for the R.A. Roth touring crews.
Before the end of the decade, we were over it.
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:35 pm
“[CEO] strenuously fought against the passage of the Georgia law last year that made it legal to carry…”
Think she’ll change her mind after this? I doubt it. Probably will respond with the standard, “Well, escalating the violence just isn’t the answer” or some similar gobbledygook.
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
I’ve never heard of Taco Mac, but I wouldn’t partronize any place that had a Criminal Acquiescence sign posted anyhow.