As much as I respect your decision to do as you will with your organization... one, I might add, that I support annually... I cannot agree with this stance.
P4P is not support of lawful carry. It is support of legislated carry... which is immoral and unconstitutional.
I don't really agree with that Wylde.
P4P has a lot of aspects. I vehemently disagree with VCDL's support of P4P bills in the GA and in fact, in years gone by they have refused to support bills that singled out CHP holders only.
On the other hand, I strongly support private property rights even if they are contrary to my beliefs. In other words, if a private property owner wants to be a low down son of a bitch and ban guns, it's his business. I'll go out of my way to cost him money and business and in general, make life miserable....but I'll still support his right to take that stance.
From VCDL's standpoint, they (or hopefully they do) represent ALL gunowners.
It would be unfair to say that they are anti gun, if they do allow some private citizens in with guns. They aren't anti gun, they're gun bigots.
It's easy for me to have a Zero tolerance policy but VCDL has to be a tad more flexible.
Now the bottom line in this is that the owner is flat out lying. He supposedly has allowed patrons with CHP's to conceal for years while it hasn't been legal for a full month yet. If he's saying he allows only LEO's and CA's to conceal...Yeah, I'd say he's anti gun.
He's not saying that now so since he's allowing private citizens with CHP's to carry concealed....he's not anti gun, just anti American, anti Virginia and he should haul his butt right back to Ireland. Hopefully, he'll lose enough business to go broke.
BUT...that shouldn't be VCDL's call.