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While out at lunch today, we saw this sticker on both doors of a fast-food sandwich shop in North Little Rock. I know the thought of my fellow diners packing heat is supposed to make me feel safer, but I don’t think I’m alone when I say that the idea of John or Joan Wayne throwing down a sammich and attempting to exercise ‘judicious marksmanship’ in a crowded restaurant during a hold up scares me a good bit more than a plain ol’ hold up.

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