Hey, you wanna go get a pizza with me? Yeah? Well, grab your gun and let’s go. You heard me right—I said to grab your gun. There’s a pizza shop right here in Virginia Beach that offers a 15% discount to customers who walk in toting a gun or their concealed handgun permit. The owner got the idea from an ice cream shop in Utah that thought of this brilliant idea first. He says that since he instituted the discount last Friday, about 80% of his customers have taken him up on his offer. So let’s get on board! I know I will feel so much safer sitting in a pizza restaurant with 80% of the people around me carrying weapons. Won’t you?
I would have thought a story like that was an April Fool’s joke if it were April 1st, but it’s not. I saw it on the front page of the local section of our newspaper this morning, along with a huge picture of a gun-toting grandmother. I can tell you that will definitely be a pizza shop I won’t be going to. I wonder how many of those gun-slinging patrons would be squawking about the inappropriateness of a woman breastfeeding in a restaurant. I can hear them now. “Breasts have no place in public.” But guns do.
Coming East 
Don’t let word of that spread to Ohio or they’ll be doing it here. Right now most businesses are sensible enough to post signs saying guns are not allowed in the store/shop/restaurant/bar.
Since I was born in Ohio, I have no intention of spreading our lunacy there, Robin!
Well now, I think you’re on to something. Get you local pizza shop to start a Mama Bring Your Breast discount. I bet the patronage will go way up; with or without benefit of the discount.
Hahaha, Adela. Love it! I’ll bring my niece along with me since she is a newly nursing mama.
So tidewater. So Hampton roads.
You must know this area much better than I, Doug. We’ve only lived here for four years, and we were very surprised. I guess nothing much will surprise us now.
I suppose the pizza place thinks they are safe with their customers armed but if these were young people who were armed and a fight breaks out, they wouldn’t feel so safe.
You are so right, Maire. You are just asking for trouble to have that many people armed in one place.
What a BIZARRE story! Truly unbelievable! :O
Yes, Ken, it reads like fiction, but it’s completely real. BIZARRE to say the least!
I saw this today, too. I’m going to go buy a gun so I can save some money on my pizza. By the time the waiting period is over, I’m going to be really hungry.
Hahaha, Patti. I don’t think the waiting period is very long. That’s one of the problems.
And here I thought guns allowed in bars (as they were in Arizona when I was there last) was bad enough! But in pizza parlors??? Eeeeek! P.S. I want to “like” your post but for some reason WP will not let me.
Thanks, Dor. I will consider it liked by you. Don’t know why WordPress wouldn’t accept it. Pretty soon, it will get too dangerous to eat out in public!
I agree with Dianna, I’m betting that place won’t get robbed. 😆
That’s such a funny thought, E.C. Just hope there aren’t any misunderstandings.
True true. 🙂
These people… God help us!!
Hahaha, Amy. You’ve said it all.
We lived in Texas during the gas shortages of the late ’70’s. As a Canadian, I found it disturbing to see so many rifles on gun racks inside pick up trucks… but I expect it kept people from cutting into the line ups at the gas pumps!
Yes, guns were a more common sight in Texas, Margie. They seem so out of place in a city like Virginia Beach, though. Why being them into a restaurant? Keep them where they belong, on shooting ranges or hunting sites.
Where do I even begin….I LOVE your point about the breastfeeding, that is point on! That’s all I can say is I sure hope they have stellar service, because I certainly wouldn’t want to piss-off one of these gun toting patrons.
Hahaha, LWTTD. I think the waiters and waitresses there must give the best service ever!
Oh yeah, can you imagine someone breastfeeding there? Oh, the horror! But guns? no problem. (shaking head)
I’m shaking my head with you, Darla.
Scary.
To say the least, Grandma. Hope this doesn’t become a trend.
I literally just heard this story, then logged on and read this post. And I disagree. I think they WILL be robbed. By someone with a gun… demanding money. Because they were invited.
Yes, SC, the owner did indeed invite his customers to come with their guns. Hope they’ve all taken gun safety courses…
What could possibly go wrong? Isn’t it amazing how many stupid people act on stupid ideas? Absolutely mind-boggling
You are so right, Elyse. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
We are neighbors — or “state-bors”. I’m in NoVA. They let gun go everywhere around here.
Hi, StateBor! There doesn’t seem to be any common sense when it comes to guns. Definitely a topic that requires common sense!
Absolutely.
I’m not going to come down on either side of the gun issue, but I can tell you one thing, you’re a lot more likely to die from eating pizza than from a gunshot.
And you might be more likely to die eating pizza in that particular restaurant, Al. I didn’t say anything about the issue of gun rights, only the absurdity of offering a discount for toting one.
I have to admit, I didn’t even know it was lawful to carry a weapon into a public place in Virginia.
Oh, yes, indeed it is, Al.
I tend to agree….but all those folks toting the guns in the pizza place….will be toting them other places where we are too. I’m betting that pizza shop won’t get robbed!
Ha-ha, Dianna. I’m betting you’re right!