Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska
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[size=large] Cinema 8
Yesterday I came with family to see a movie at your theater in Farmville as I had many times since the new theater opened. I was very disappointed (shocked actually) to see a dumb sign in your window about "No Firearms Allowed" in the movie. As a law-abiding citizen, a combat Viet Nam veteran and a legal conceal carry permit holder for 18 years, I did the right thing and took my family and legally holstered gun and left your theater with out buying tickets. I have no plans of returning to
Cinema 8 until your sign is taken down. The 20 or so times I came to Cinema 8 before for watch a movie, I was always armed.
If you think your stupid sign is going to make a bit of difference to a criminal or someone with bad intentions, then you live on another world. I carry a gun to protect my family and myself when and where it is necessary ~ that is apparently NOT in your establishment where my personal safety is frowned upon. You are obviously not able to protect me and my family so why would I disarm so a criminal and come in armed? ~ Gee, let me ponder that.
No guns signs are nothing new, I've seen them go up and come down almost as fast as they went up when law abiding citizens complain and business starts to drop because of knee jerk policies and fear. Just think how differently things might have turned out if someone in the Colorado theater had a conceal permit and was able to stop the shooter early in the shooting? Gee ~ let me ponder that too.
For every letter sent as I am doing here, there are many more that will just not come back. Movies in the theaters will soon be for rent ~ I'll just wait until they are. I hope you will rethink your worthless, do nothing policy and take the sign down. Until then, as one famous movie actor said ~ "Hasta la vista , baby "
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Yesterday I came with family to see a movie at your theater in Farmville as I had many times since the new theater opened. I was very disappointed (shocked actually) to see a dumb sign in your window about "No Firearms Allowed" in the movie. As a law-abiding citizen, a combat Viet Nam veteran and a legal conceal carry permit holder for 18 years, I did the right thing and took my family and legally holstered gun and left your theater with out buying tickets. I have no plans of returning to
Cinema 8 until your sign is taken down. The 20 or so times I came to Cinema 8 before for watch a movie, I was always armed.
If you think your stupid sign is going to make a bit of difference to a criminal or someone with bad intentions, then you live on another world. I carry a gun to protect my family and myself when and where it is necessary ~ that is apparently NOT in your establishment where my personal safety is frowned upon. You are obviously not able to protect me and my family so why would I disarm so a criminal and come in armed? ~ Gee, let me ponder that.
No guns signs are nothing new, I've seen them go up and come down almost as fast as they went up when law abiding citizens complain and business starts to drop because of knee jerk policies and fear. Just think how differently things might have turned out if someone in the Colorado theater had a conceal permit and was able to stop the shooter early in the shooting? Gee ~ let me ponder that too.
For every letter sent as I am doing here, there are many more that will just not come back. Movies in the theaters will soon be for rent ~ I'll just wait until they are. I hope you will rethink your worthless, do nothing policy and take the sign down. Until then, as one famous movie actor said ~ "Hasta la vista , baby "
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