Maine restaurant owner: If you support assault rifles, don’t eat here
A Maine restaurant owner’s post about guns on Facebook has been getting a lot of attention this week.
Anne Verrill, who owns Grace in Portland, named one of America’s 10 Most Beautiful Restaurants, and Foreside Tavern in Falmouth, told potential patrons if they support assault rifles, they are not welcome at her businesses.
Her original post, which she later deleted, showed a photo of the gun similar to the one used in the Orlando massacre and said, 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,” according to the Portland Press Herald.
In a second post on her restaurant Faceboook page, she wrote, “I don’t want to take away guns of responsible gun owners … I want people to not have the power to own weapons of war.” She also mentioned the “vitriol spewed” by gun advocates on the original post. Verrill told the Herald the comments prompted her to notify police.
Verrill told the Bangor Daily News that she stood by her comments in the deleted post, but clarified, “I am in no way, shape or form trying to lump a group of people and tell them I will not serve them. I spoke very specifically about a specific gun, that was specifically used to terrorize a group of people who are now all dead.”
Read her second Facebook post on the Grace Facebook page.
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