Recently a veteran from New Jersey, Mario Alejandro, claimed that Six Flags denied him access to their park because his shirt read “Keep Calm And Return Fire” and had a gun on it. The shirt was black and the text and gun was in red, white and blue.
“Our goal is to maintain a fun, safe and family-friendly environment. Our dress code does not permit clothing with vulgar, offensive or violent language or images,” stated Kristin B. Siebeneicher, a spokeswoman for Six Flags.
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Six Flags Denies A Veteran Entrance Because Of Pro-Gun Shirt
Although the shirt is obviously in support of the United States, somehow it was either vulgar, offensive or violent. The best guess would probably be ‘violent’ as anti-gunners feel the sight of a gun will make everyone go crazy and want to shoot each other.
‘Gun fear’ is one mechanism created across this country in order to disarm America. The sight of a gun should be a symbol of freedom and sovereignty of the citizen – now it is being vilified.
“Our goal is to maintain a fun, safe and family-friendly environment. Our dress code does not permit clothing with vulgar, offensive or violent language or images,” she wrote. “If a guest is wearing such attire, we ask them to remove and replace it with another item of clothing; and if they do not have one, they are able to purchase a replacement item at a gift shop.”
Siebeneicher added that Six Flags is extremely proud of its longstanding relationship with the U.S. military.
“We work closely with them throughout the season to offer special events that honor our service men and women and their families, including a recent July 4th tribute, and an upcoming ‘Salute the Troops’ event over the Labor Day weekend,” she said. “In addition, active members of the Army, Navy and Air Force helped open our new thrill ride this summer.”
But Alejandro said no veteran should ever be treated he way he was on Saturday.
“At the very least should revise their policy,” he said. “I fought for this country. I laid in a hole for 36 hours with no sleep, and had friends die for this country and so the people here could have the freedom to things like visit amusement parks. So when they told me that I couldn’t come in there with my family because of my shirt – a patriotic shirt – it hurt a lot. No other veteran should ever have to experience that.”
Source: nj.com
Photo: Mario Alejandro
bet if a terrorist were there and HE took them down before they killed everyone they would sing a different song.
now shirts are dangerous?????
So do they take down the pro gay shirts? How about anti gun shirts?
Cryin’ shame to treat a Veteran who served to protect our freedoms like that! Let it be known I WILL ADVISE all my friends and Family to BOYCOTT the 6 FLAGs Franchise. How about ALL of them?!
Well Six Flags you can forget about my patronage to your lousy park anymore. YOU OFFEND ME!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is not the first time Six Flags does something stupid. In Ohio they were boycotted bc of animal abuse . The pressure from this forced them to close. I agree he should sue the hell out of them I definitely would for sure.
old news, situation has been handled………
WTF!
So they can decide who to do business with and that is OK, but Christian baker can’t??
If this in fact is true let them do what other theme parks have done declare a day when Pro Gun People have the park to themselves.