The anti-gun crowd has their propaganda machine in full gear in Arizona and Tennessee. Tennessee recently overrode their governor's veto of a bill allowing concealed carry license holders to carry their defensive firearms into restaurants that serve alcohol (provided they do not drink themselves) and Arizona is currently considering similar legislation.
"When you're in a bar, you're supposed to be out having fun, so leave the gun at home," said Eileen Conners of Larry's Cocktails, expressing her opposition to the Arizona bill.
I'm going to guess her agenda is not only that she doesn't like guns, but also that since this bill prohibits drinking alcohol while armed that it would therefore cut into profits if they only had non-alcoholic beverages to drink. Of course, a customer killed by a robber will probably affect sales as well.
In Tennessee, where the new law is being challenged in court, they've taken to outright lying to the public while levying hideous insults against gun owners.
"We apparently are going to have 225,000 vigilantes shooting in bars," said David Smith, one of the attorneys for the opposition.
Calling gun owners vigilantes is a common tactic by anti-gun pundits. Attack the reputation of gun owners and try to turn the public against them. Defending your life isn't taking the law into your own hands regardless of whether you're at home in bed or out with friends. This statement is also supposing that all 225,000 permit holders in Tennessee regularly visit bars, though the reality is that this kind of legislation most commonly affects patrons at ordinary restaurants that happen to include alcoholic beverages on the menu.
The biggest lie of all, though, is that these ccw holders are going to be shooting up bars and restaurants. What the anti-gunners won't tell you is that 39 other states have some provision in their laws for citizens to be allowed to carry firearms into places that serve alcohol, and in not one of these states is it a problem. Lawfully armed citizens aren't the ones breaking the laws, it is the criminals who do so.
Some states even allow permit holders to consume alcohol while they're carrying and yet still there are no problems. Lawful gun owners are responsible, trustworthy, and law abiding. It is the armed robbers, muggers, rapists, gang members, and killers that are the problem. The very people that armed citizens are wanting to defend themselves against.
They can go on telling their lies, but they can't change the facts. Lawfully armed citizens, whether in their homes, businesses, parks, restaurants, or bars, are not now and never have been the problem. That is the uncomfortable truth the gun grabbers don't want you to hear.
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Comments
As a proud member of GeorigaCarry and a native of Georgia, I can happily confirm that allowing licensed gun owners to carry in restaurants that serve alcohol HAS NOT RESULTED IN MORE DEATHS!! The anti-gun crowd in Tennessee needs to get a grip!
There could be absolutely no more violence in todays society, but someone, somewhere, will start whining because all some people want to do is watch the world burn and they will stop at nothing to make sure it happens. Fabricated statistics and flat out lies is all these types pf people know how spout off about. Like the kid in grade school that nobody pays attention to, so he/she makes up stories to try and get the other kids to like him or just to pay some sort of attention to. These types of people are idiots. Starved for attention because mommy and daddy didn't give them enough. Trying their damnedest to fit in with what they think is going to be the victor, in the long run. Right or wrong, they don't care. I also suspect that whoever is giving them the most money is a very large factor.
You have to classify anti-gun people in the same group as PETA. Uniformed and most likely un-educated. If just one of their loved ones was injured by a robber or mauled by a bear. You can bet your bottom dollar they would be the first ones that would SCREAM for changes in the gun regs and hunting seasons.
When a situation arises that requires a firearm there is no substitute. If we can have a designated driver why can't there be a designated protector? A gun in the hands of a good person is no vice.
The point is that although most people don't lie, they are brainwashed into parroting lies by the media. the best one can do is google GUN FACTS 5.0,read it,print it, put it on disk, and get it to everyone you can. it is a well documented truth. education alone can reduce the number of parrots considerably. you can tell when the gun control people are lying just like the media--their mouths are moving.
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