I’m still scratching my head over the amount of high-dudgeon among my left-leaning friends.
From what I can tell in the aftermath of yesterday’s horrible mess of Tennessee Citizens taking back their rights, everything is happening the way it should in the America I was told this was.
Everybody has their rights. Gun people have the right to bear their arms with them wherever they go. Restaurant people have the right to say “this is my restaurant and you can’t bring that gun in here.” Gun people then have the right to go to a different restaurant where they can eat with their gun.
It seems pretty logical to me. Pretty harmless. A lot less offensive than constricting the free commerce and movements of gun owners.
I’ve remained silent on this because I wanted to see how it played out. But the way I see it, and what I’ve been wanting to say all along is this. The people who have concealed carry permits–who would be able to keep their gun on their person–are the best-qualified gun owners around. A gun in their hands is safer than a steak knife by the plate of a woman who has just been told that her dining partner is having an affair and is about to leave her. A gun in the hands of person with a concealed carry permit is safer than a bottle of half-drunk beer next to a man who doesn’t like to have his manhood questioned.
A gun in the hands of a person with a concealed carry permit is as much or more of a constitutional right than the free speech ability of all of the bloggers who are writing about how horrible it is.
I now see there is a new website created to provide folks with information on “safe” places to eat. I think that’s a great thing. You can use your first amendment rights. Gun people can use their second amendment rights. Everything is as it should be.
The steak knife won’t ricochet and kill the waiter who is coming out of the kitchen 40 yards away, however. The bottle doesn’t have the muzzle velocity of a .38 slug. I’d take my chances on either over getting accidentally plugged by some hothead over in the lounge while I’m eating my soup in the restaurant.
If you are that paralyzed with fear, bridgett, there will be many other establishments soliciting your business.
the muzzle velocity of a .38 slug
If we’re talking muzzle velocities and trajectories (as if your average Conceal Carry dude and dame were losing control over their weapons repeatedly) does that mean you refuse to drive on the road?
Because the same crazy wild bullets could find their way into your car when fired from another car where the CCP fellow was keeping his Gun! in the glove compartment.
Or you could refuse to live next door to anyone with a gun permit. Or you could refuse to visit anyone with a gun permit.
Either way, with this law in place you still have the right to go where there are no guns.
So would the woman with a conceal permit still use the steak kinfe? Because using the gun would go against the state mandated training she got?
Chill, y’all. I actually agree with Kat on the “ain’t no big thing” inherent in this new law, since it merely brings under the cover of law what people were doing anyhow. My point was that bullets are not magic and they don’t always go where you want them to or stay where you put them. Gun owners choose guns because they are a particular kind of deadly force unlike a bottle or a piece of tableware. Not seeing why that’s so fucking controversial.
I’m one of the left-leaners, but I have to agree with the gun nuts on this one. (As I usually agree with the gun nuts, surprisingly. I’d totally be a gun nut, if I owned a gun, but alas, I don’t, ha.)
I just really don’t see what the big deal is on this. People have been carrying guns into bars and restaurants illegally since forever. Now the law abiding folks can carry a gun into bars and restaurants. Whoopty doo.
“I just really don’t see what the big deal is on this. People have been carrying guns into bars and restaurants illegally since forever. Now the law abiding folks can carry a gun into bars and restaurants. Whoopty doo.”
Wow, somebody who gets it.
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Outstanding job paraphrasing the situation, Katherine!
Excellent points Katherine and Ivy. My fellow HCP holders that I know and I concur 100%.
To be frank though needing a pistol in a restaurant while dining is the furthest thing from our minds. It is the parking lot of the restaurant that has us concerned.
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