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Friday, June 05, 2009

Handguns will be permitted in bars and restaurants in Tennessee starting next month after a new law was passed. The law, which takes effect July 14, comes after state legislators voted to override the governor's veto. The legislation retains an existing ban on consuming alcohol while carrying a handgun, and restaurant owners can still opt to ban weapons from their establishments. In Memphis, many bar owners are appalled by new legislation and are posting signs in their windows making it clear that weapons aren't allowed inside, despite what will soon become legal in the state.

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.....Ironically....

......in a state that frowns on Darwin, they will be advancing Darwin's work of natural selection......

.....weeding out those from the populace who are too stupid to stay out of bars with gun toting drunks in them.......

Gives a new meaning to "Give me a shot."

One bourbon, one scotch and one Glock.

Reminds me of a time I was in downtown Nashville a week or two after the Rams beat the Titans in the Super Bowl. I was talking hockey and complementing the Predators on the young talent they were stockpiling. His brother walks over and starts giving me trouble about football, which I'm not really interested.

I talk a little smack back at the guy and he is getting mad. I'm getting a kick out of it since he's the one that started it so I turn it up a notch. His brother is laughing, his girlfriend is laughing, we are all having a good time but he flies off the handle and tells me he is going out to his truck to get his gun.

His brother and girlfriend both tell me I'd better get out of there because he doesn't joke around. I go out the side door just in time to see the guy walking towards the front door with pistol in hand.

I decided to stay away from that place after that. Too bad because it was a fun place.

No smoking! But you can pack heat...

Too damn many tennessians anyways.

Darwin rules!

They have bars in TN?

This story is wrong.

The law allows handguns in restaurants that serve alcohol. Not bars. It applies to someone who wants a beer with his burger.

And it's for the 'designated driver.' Nor for those who are consuming.

But I concede that doesn't make nearly the headline.

The legislation retains an existing ban on consuming alcohol while carrying a handgun

"How in the hell are we going to get are guns home."

- Sam Kinnison (RIP)

"And it's for the 'designated driver.' Nor for those who are consuming."

Oh ---- that will be easy to police!

Makes sense that a "pro small business" champion such as yourself would assume that policing this policy will come at no expense to the owners!

I bet these small business owners are thrilled that some politicians scored some cheap points with the NRA and the apocalyptic "christians" cult ---- at their expense!

"No smoking! But you can pack heat..."

Our government is plain damn insane.

That's ok. just no antennas.

that's a greeeeat idea. What's better than a bunch of drunks with firearms?

"I decided to stay away from that place after that"

Well now you have an excuse to go back with your own pistol and have you a good ole' "christian" shootem'up and maybe make a few innocent bystanders kids orphans in the process!

Sincerely

Masturbating Thom

This law has overtones of Social Darwinism 21st century style.m

This story is wrong.

Wot did you expect it's from FOX?

The law allows handguns in restaurants that serve alcohol. Not bars. It applies to someone who wants a beer with his burger.

Actually, it's both bars and restaraunts.

Sez so right under the header.

And it's for the 'designated driver.' Nor for those who are consuming.

Info also contained under the header.

But I concede that doesn't make nearly the headline.

Spud concedes that yer sentence makes no sense.

Spud believes in options.

Bars and restaraunts now have the option to allow designated drivers to bring their guns inside their establishments.

If they are smart they will take the other available option of opting out by using their own house rules to prevent guns from coming in.

This NRA driven law is already in full effect in 37 states w/o significant gun deaths reported so in essence this is much ado about nothing.

Be Well.

Must be to stop all them gheys from hitting on red-blooded 'merican men.

The best part is homicides will actually decrease, people just don't shoot someone who might just buy them a drink.

"This NRA driven law is already in full effect in 37 states w/o significant gun deaths reported so in essence this is much ado about nothing."

You're 100% right spud.

Every time laws are passed to expand second amendment rights, the foaming at the mouth anti gun nuts predict wild west shootouts.

It gives the business the option of allowing weapons inside in TN. Also, in Alabama some places have police or private guards. One bar I know of had an incident where a drunken patron was thrown out only to pull a pistol once out the door. The bouncer now packs..Also, he has a permit and isn't drinking.

Our government working for the people not special interests.
Of course the pants pissers cry,its what they do.

This law has overtones of Social Darwinism 21st century style.
#15 | Posted by moder8

Every time this moron posts he makes an ass out of himself.Its hard to believe he's a lawyer.With logic like this I can't imagine he wins to many cases,then again he's a public defender from SoCal.

rwd

It's no longer illegal to carry firearm into a restaurant that serve alcohol in TN and yet some owners will still prohibit them in their establishments.

Sounds fair to me.

Liberty and freedom like this will most certainly not be supported by some of the more "elevated" people though.

Makes sense that a "pro small business" champion such as yourself would assume that policing this policy will come at no expense to the owners!

I bet these small business owners are thrilled that some politicians scored some cheap points with the NRA and the apocalyptic "christians" cult ---- at their expense!

#10 | Posted by Redneckville at 2009-06-05 08:03 PM | Reply

Any excuse to trash Christians, ehh? Your hatred and bigotry runneth over, into your bowl of ignorance!

Give it a rest.

Crime rates ALWAYS go down with the expansion of concealed carry laws. And anyone who has gone through the training to carry a gun already knows that booze and firearms do not go together.

The rest of the world is not like your tweaker homies.

Re: #9 post

Maybe lawyers pushed the legistlation to make the pub owner a patsy in a F'd up sitiuation. Trash is Cash.

So when all the doom and gloom many of you are predicting doesn't happen, will you change your opinions?

I thought not.....

"And anyone who has gone through the training to carry a gun already knows that booze and firearms do not go together."

Anyone who has a driver's licence knows that speeding is illegal, but oddly enough quite a few still do.

I fully support concealed carry, but I doubt that anyone is going to say "Sorry, can't drink, I'm packin'"

Every time laws are passed to expand second amendment rights, the foaming at the mouth anti gun nuts predict wild west shootouts.

No different than what the gun nuts do every time Second Amendment rights are narrowed...

Is there a way to buy stock in mouth froth? This site alone would be worth millions.

All this panic about law abiding citizens doing in Tennesee what is already done elsewhere. Funny how in those places "drunks with guns" aren't shooting each other. Even better...I don't see a lot of worry for the drunks with cars, which statistically kill more people than guns. I guess it's hard to see the forest from the trees when your a Hoplophobe.

DAPROF: When I "pack", I don't drink. Ever.

Pack What? I'd think you'd have to drink,a lot....if your're gonna "pack".

I don't mess with bars and church and such. the last weapon I had was stolen. so it's just better to stay home and burn their hands with a blow torch if they ever try to break into this pile.

I'm prepared like the boy scout law.

Sounds great to me!

If rednecks want to off each other in bars, who am I stop natural selection from taking place.

I'm packing heat....in my pants. YEAH!!!!

Seriously, is it supposed to burn this badly?

An armed society is also a very tense society.

Everyone is armed including the hot headed drunken insecure assholes.

Get in an simple fender bender people must be prepared to defend themselves. This is true. A former colleague of mine lived in Caracas. An extremely violent place. Everyone is armed. Traffic accidents often become shootouts.

How things have changed.
in 1982 i took a trip to Alaska.Went into the airport in Phoenix,checked in our weapons at the counter,nobody batted an eye

if your ever in baltimore you would be a fool not to carry a gun.

I very much doubt whether there is another country on earth that has a similar law. Why? Because it's insane, that's why. It's both those facts that makes it so attractive to the NRA.

they also join an evergrowing list of states who are reminding the federal government of the 1oth amendment and how the feds are taking that away piece by piece.

Crime rates ALWAYS go down with the expansion of concealed carry laws. And anyone who has gone through the training to carry a gun already knows that booze and firearms do not go together.

This is a lie. One of the many the gun-crazies are spreading. We here in Gemany have a small percentage of your crime rate and we are not allowed to carry a gun.

Oh yeah? I will force you to do the Tennessee Waltz. Now DANCE! DANCE!

Wonderful, drunk cowboys with a predilection for fighting given the OK to have loaded weapons at a time when thinking is at best clouded. It makes perfect sense if you are trying to thin out the ranks of violent cowboys bar fighters.

"It makes perfect sense if you are trying to thin out the ranks of violent cowboys bar fighters."

And those who sit behind them.

Wonderful, drunk cowboys with a predilection for fighting given the OK to have loaded weapons at a time when thinking is at best clouded. It makes perfect sense if you are trying to thin out the ranks of violent cowboys bar fighters.

#41 | Posted by keith204
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keith,

I understand your bias towards foxnews but the article clearly says they upheld the ban on possession of a handgun while consuming alcohol. The only person allowed to have a gun is a designated driver or someone who does not drink.

Lonnie

"No different than what the gun nuts do every time Second Amendment rights are narrowed...

Is there a way to buy stock in mouth froth? This site alone would be worth millions."

To be fair, the reaction SHOULD be stronger when rights are being narrowed. It is rather strange, though, to froth at the mouth when rights are rightfully expanded.

"Wonderful, drunk cowboys with a predilection for fighting given the OK to have loaded weapons at a time when thinking is at best clouded. It makes perfect sense if you are trying to thin out the ranks of violent cowboys bar fighters."

Ah, typical idiot shit spewed by people with no understanding. Just like the new Texas law allowing guns on university campuses, people think this will result in daily shootouts over nothing. In reality, it will probably result in nothing happening over noting because one still has to have a permit to carry the weapon and even then, they CAN NOT consume alcohol.

Why is it that whenever these laws are passed, people think law abiding citizens will all of a sudden become non-law abiding citizens?

"and even then, they CAN NOT consume alcohol."

And the fact no underage college student ever consumes alcohol proves this will work!

Why is it that whenever these laws are passed, people think law abiding citizens will all of a sudden become non-law abiding citizens?

Statistics? The US homicide rate is higher than Albania, Ethiopia, Argentina and Peru, to name a few. The Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland which have strict gun control, have rates 1/5 of those in the US.

"Every time laws are passed to expand second amendment rights, the foaming at the mouth anti gun nuts predict wild west shootouts.

No different than what the gun nuts do every time Second Amendment rights are narrowed..."

You don't see a difference?

One is for defending a freedom while the other is for restricting it, giving up freedom for an illusion of safety.

just what Tenn. needs, drunks with loaded guns....LOL.

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