From Joan who thinks the world didn’t exist before she was born.
It’s pretty simple Migo. No one should be carrying a gun in bars and places that serve alcohol. That’s the way it was for years before you guys managed to get the loosed conceal carry laws passed in so many states. That was common sense.
Joan was likely born in the 50s, and likely came of age during the infancy of the modern gun control movement that peaked in the mid-90s and is now in its death throws. Really before she was born carry laws were really a non-issue. You could buy pistols, rifles, and shotguns at the local hardware store or general store. You could get these at any age, and if you owned it, you could carry it. Bars, schools, federal buildings, even airplanes, they didn’t care if you were packing a gun. Even Pop Culture didn’t have an issue with carrying of guns.
Of course Joan being the narcissist she is, she simply points out gun-rights arguments are the fools for REPEALING the failed laws the anti-rights goons pushed through. Sorry Joan, it was like this before you got here…you made it worse! Maybe we’re better off not taking your stupid advise!
Gun control means never having to know your history.
It’s like how Gun Grabbers like to say “The Founders never meant 2nd should cover new guns” but refuse to answer how why Caplocks and revolver actions were never regulated. Oh and still aren’t regulated!
When you compare the flintlock pistol versus the cap and ball revolver you get a jump in firepower that’s comparable to cap and ball and “modern” handguns. I say modern even though the fundamental technologies and examples are over a centry old.
History what’s that?
Funny, because its ALWAYS been legal to carry in bars & restaurants that serve alcohol here in Delaware. Hell, it wasn’t until last year that our idiot democrats and idiot Democrat governor signed a law making it illegal to drink while carrying.*
*Not that I think such a thing should be done, only that there was never a problem with it and no law needed be passed.
Funny thing about History. It’s so easy (at least for the last 100 years or so) to find out how much Bullshit is being spouted by those who try to “Revise” it. I could make a case that the Anti-Gun Movement gained Political Power in Direct Proportion to the rise of More Freedom by the various “Actors” in America, and now that more Freedom is out there, they can’t restrict it.
Let’s think about it. Anti-Gun Laws back in the ’50s were usually found in the Major Cities (usually to protect the City Fathers and to keep the Ghettos under control, think of NYC’s Sullivan Act), the Jim Crow South, and some local communities (but those usually were the “No Shooting inside City Limits” because of the Suburban Sprawl happening). But then the Civil Rights Movement happened, and Lee Harvey had the audacity to Destroy Camelot, and the Hippies were “Occupying” the Country against the Vietnam War, and so on.
But for each Gain in Rights by the various “Actors,” there seemed to be another Gun Law passed. Why? Because it’s NOT “Good to be the King” when your Former Peasants start to get Freedom. But when the Jack Booted Thugs hit Waco, and the Creepy Kids shot up Columbine, all on LIVE TeeWee, people started to think, “Hey, why can’t I defend myself and my Family?” All the Clinton Crap Laws occurred to RESTRICT the Peasants from Revolting against their “Peace-Loving Socialist Masters,” and people started to think. Then 9/11 happened, and I think that the Ordinary Man and Women said to themselves “Box Cutters did all that? Where were the Air Marshals? Screw this! I need to take care of myself and my Family.” And then the Voting started to Happen.
Today, what little Gun Control Laws are being proposed are being met with Huge Resistance, because the old Commie Playbook doesn’t work anymore. Mass shooting on a College Campus? Well, the Gun Laws were supposed to stop that, right? Mass Shooting in a Movie Theater? Well, since the Gun Laws don’t work, maybe I should get my CHP? If I can have a Beer in my Backyard BBQ with my pistol in the cupboard 20 feet from me, and I’m not shooting up my guests, why can’t I have a Beer at TGIFridays w/o leaving my gun in the Car. And so on.
Joan and her ilk are grasping at straws, and their feeble attempt to change History is not Working. To make their Historical Propaganda work, they’d need to bring back Zombie Stalin and set up a Dictatorship. Which I wouldn’t put past them trying.
Funny, there was no rule about carrying in restaurants that serve alcohol in Virginia until 1995, when that new rule was accepted as a compromise to get Shall Issue.
The only cases of lawfully concealed guns being being used improperly by drunks that I was able to find during the entire “while civilian licensed CCW was legal, but pre-restaurant-ban” period?
Off-duty cops, getting into gunfights with other off-duty cops, usually over a bar floozy. The one I am most familiar with (because it happened within walking distance of my house, in the strip-mall parking lot of a local sports bar) involved two sets of FEDERAL AGENTS. Of course, LEOs (state, local, or federal) were (and remain) EXEMPT from restrictions on carrying while in a place that servbes alcohol. . . Hell, unless I’m mistaken, they are even exempt from carrying while DRUNK (much less while “drinking in moderation, still legal to drive”). Commonwealth’s Attorneys
(VA’s equivalent to DA’s) are LIKEWISE exempted, under the same exemptions as apply to LEOs, yet are not required to have even the “proof of competency”* that a regular citizen needs to get a CHP (Concealed Handgun Permit — the 1995 Shall Issue law also changed VA from a Concealed WEAPONS Permit, to one that only covers handguns; I knew a guy who used to carry a knife on his CWP pre-1995).
( * Virginia’s “proof of competency” requirement is really a “some evidence you know which end is dangerous” requirement. Almost any NRA training course (even online), ANY honorable military service, EVER having a CCW in any state without revocation, etc., qualifies. But state-paid prosecuting attorneys don’t even need to pass that low bar, but can get drunked up IN a bar while carrying. ‘Cause they’re magically special people, you see.)