GUNS: Restaurant serves up notice

I went to take my son into the new Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant and on our way into the door I saw a big white sign that said, “Buffalo Wild Wings BANS GUNS ON THESE PREMISES.”

When I was 4 years old, 1991, we lived in Killeen, Texas. I remember hearing the sirens after an estranged man by the name of George Pierre drove his 1987 Ford Ranger into the front windows of Luby’s Restaurant.

He then started shooting all the customers. Suzana Hupp, whom is now a State Representative of Texas, left her gun she always carried in her car because of the recently passed gun law prohibiting her to carry.

She was being a law-abiding citizen. She watched her parents get shot by George Pierre.

The reason I told this story is for those who haven’t heard it yet. Are we really that naive to believe that a sign saying “no guns” is really going to stop criminals from committing the crime they already intended on committing? The Texas law at that time sure didn’t stop Mr. Pierre. Neither has any other mass shooting. Why would it stop somebody now?

No, what that is is a target. It has been proven time and time again.

Why must we keep making the same mistake over and over again? The only unarmed is the innocent victims. Is Buffalo Wild Wings going to be another Luby’s Massacre?

BRUCE BERRY

Coeur d’Alene