The claim that someone fears gun owners so much that they would flee without paying for food

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. I'd wager

Such antics will not gain someone any sympathy among the average non-partisan audience of such antics. I'd even wager that the non-partisans subjected to such histrionics would probably end up resenting the person who created the commotion for creating more of a commotion than the gun owner and thereby ruining their dining experience.

And, at the end of the day, such tactics are little more than a sad display meant to push public opinion. It will but not in the direction you hope.

Making an obnoxious spectacle of one's self is never a winning strategy.

And, really, it's all just an act; little more than a childish tantrum because -- as the OP notes -- if gun owners are the threat they are portrayed to be than all the other effort to antagonize them would be foolhardy in the extreme. Either gun owners actually are very courteous and reserved and thus do not deserve such slander or the person making the conflicting claims has completely lost their mind because they're inflaming what they claim to so strongly fear.