Handguns will soon be allowed in bars and restaurants in Tennessee under a new law passed by state legislators who voted to override the governor's veto.
The legislation that takes effect July 14 retains an existing ban on consuming alcohol while carrying a handgun, and restaurant owners can still opt to ban weapons from their establishments.
Thirty-seven other states have similar laws.
The state Senate voted 21-9 on Thursday against Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen's veto, a day after the House also voted 69-27 to override.
They overrode critics, including Bredesen, who said it's a bad idea to have guns and alcohol in close proximity.
A couple, three thoughts immediately come to mind.
- If the restaurants food is so terrible that you have to bring a gun, why even eat there in the first place?
- Rednecks, alcohol and guns: What a brilliant idea! It must have been pushed by both the NRA and the funeral directors lobby.
- Just another reason to never to go to Tennessee.
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The second biggest massacre in the US next to Virgina Tech was in a restaurant that served alcohol. It was in Luby's in Killeen, Texas.
ReplyDeleteA man drove his truck through the front window of the restaurant an opened fire. He killed 23 people and wounded 20 others. A woman by the name of Suzanna Hupp had her gun in the car to comply with the law, while this man executed her parent's in front of her.
It's pretty sick that you make fun of one's right to defend them selves.
It's beginning to sound like to cognitively dissident one here is you Chris. You'd like to twist the facts of the world so that it fits the picture of what you'd like it to be like.
ReplyDeleteSo, you give another tragedy that could have been avoided with strictly enforced gun laws. Kind of proves my point.
ReplyDeleteAnd lets not forget the CCW-licensed person in New York who shot a father buckling his toddler into the car seat. The gunman was annoyed because he had to go around the open car door and had to wait for traffic before doing so.
And why not non-lethal methods of self-defense? Or would that make too much sense?
I've eaten at Luby's all across Texas, and I've yet to see one that serves alcohol.
ReplyDeleteBesides, alcohol, drunk people and firearms--what could possibly go wrong?
If everybody having a gun makes a restaurant safer, wouldn't every country having an atomic weapon make the world safer?
ReplyDeleteSeems to me that off-duty cop that was gunned down by another cop, had a gun. didn't work out too well for this poor chap did it?
ReplyDeleteYou might be right about Luby's not serving alcohol, I've never been there.
ReplyDeleteThe information here is wrong though. The bill being proposed only allows those that are not consuming alcohol to carry. So there would be no intoxicated people with firearms.
Capper, how would strictly enforced gun laws stop a madman from driving his truck threw a window, and opening fire on a group of people? Gun laws only limit those afraid of getting caught. He already knew he was going to die. These kinds of tragedies are not going to stop through legislation, thinking so is foolish.
And yes there are idiots out there that have firearms, and horrible things happen sometimes, but this is by far not the norm. 2-3 million people are saved through the use of firearms every year, so there is also good things.
More people with guns does not make things safer, but properly trained people with guns due. My example is Switzerland. Every male in the country is trained and given a weapon after high school. There crime rate is one of the lowest in the world and yet they have some of the highest guns per capita.
krshorewood, your right sometimes having a gun won't save you, but neither will the police, so at least being prepared is a start.
ReplyDeleteThere is not cure all for this violence without un-inventing firearms.
What is your source of the 2-3 million supposedly saved because of hand guns? The NRA? Did they count how many people died needlessly because of handguns?
ReplyDeleteAnd you never did get around to answering about the non-lethal weapons. Wonder why that is?