*Bars* – less than 51% of revenue from non-boozed sales are also allowed with permission from the owner / manager. Once again, no problems.

It is very silly to have to argue details of the type of paint used, when the big picture shows only a unicorn, and the subject under discussion is not unicorns, but horses. And the picture is not just a unicorn, but one with zebra stripes and feathered wings, ridden by drunken gun wielding licensees.

When I have written and submitted op-eds for alternative papers, I usually have to send tons of background information because they don’t take much on face value. (It’s rather refreshing even though most PR people would consider it a waste of time.) When I’ve done interviews with alternative paper reporters, I found they went and researched almost every source I gave them for more facts. In all honesty, I believe you get a more fair shake from the average alt weekly reporter than you do from MSM reporters. Sometimes they get it wrong, but I’ve found it’s usually based on interpretation or misunderstanding. From the sounds of the people who looked into it, it would seem the error might fall into one of these areas. But good for Uncle for having a little faith to make the request.

“So, do 37 other states have laws similar to the one Tennessee’s legislature passed this month allowing guns in establishments that serve alcohol?”

The analysis he cites only considers states that have shall-issue concealed carry permits.

Here’s why the analysis fails. There are states (like California) that are may-issue but that allow guns to be conceal carried in restaurants that serve alcohol. Likewise, there are states (like Montana) that allow guns in restaurants that serve alcohol if the guns are carried openly, rather than concealed.

Lau totally blew it.

Has any state that allows carry into either restaurants where alcohol is served, or into bars, or allows carrying licensees to drink (Florida, I believe) experienced a problem with it? Not that the anti-gun folks could find, or I think it would have been publicized.

Illogical (insane) arguments are not supported by data not related to the insane part of the argument.

I have only looked at the laws that pertain to restaurants that serve alcohol, not bars, in other states, and there are 41 that currently allow carry. I would suspect that many of those states have ‘bars’ defines under law and prohibit carry there.

I think that this lawyer is knowingly using deceptive language to confuse the issue.

Regards,
Pol

But hammer violence… I guess there’s jsut no right to be free from that.

I think that would be covered by the 9th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Also covered by statute in most (all?) states.

Still, anybody who believes “gun possession = gun violence” _is_ an idiot.

“The ultimate victory, if it would ever happen, would be for the court to recognize a constitutional right to be free from gun violence, public or private,” Smith said.

Somehow, I get the feeling his “research” results are just a teeny bit biased.