Arizonans are now allowed to carry concealed weapons into bars. Gov. Jan Brewer signed the law on Monday to guarantee the right to be fully loaded in bars.
The law would still bar drinking while carrying a weapon and would allow restaurants and bars to prohibit the practice if they properly post warnings. Some may not be content with just being armed without their flaming shot or Schnapps shooter. Forty states have such laws.
Bar owners are not thrilled. Mike Nelson, owners of Pomeroy’s bar in Phoenix, said “This might be one of the stupidest things that I have heard of.”
Gun owners recently celebrated the right to bear arms in churches and work places in Texas and Arkansas (here).
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This is a few minutes of over the top, riotous, joyful, glorious ignorance concerning free guns, concealed carry, pansy Londoners, useful AK-47s and truck dealing in the good old USA (commies not welcome):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003nvps
It occurrs at 42:43-46:15
You won’t be disappointed!
Well jw, if you’re a fanatic about safety then surely you agree that passing a law specifically aimed at allowing handguns in bars, i.e. where people get intoxicated and care less about safety, is asinine.
Bob-
And you can go ahead and cut the condescending BS, because I carry and I am a fanatic about safety. I know they are weapons first and never denied it. Gyges made the claim that a weapon can not be used for the sake of safety because it’s a weapon; he has essentially said that an object’s dictionary definition dictates its usage. No amount of examples, real or hypothetical, will shake him from that insane stance. A gun is always a weapon – but weapon is a morally neutral word, and a gun or any other weapon can be used for good. That this needs explaining or defending is astounding.
jw,
Cut the semantic bullshi+, a gun is first and foremost a weapon and MUST BE RESPECTED AS SUCH.
This is why we have RULES OF THE RANGE; so idiots don’t blow holes in other people because of lack of respect for the gun.
I kind of hinted at the notion by posting this:
Michael: Every time he comes up, he’s got no knife, he’s got no jacket, he’s got no pants, he’s got no boots. All he’s got is that stupid gun he carries around like John Wayne.
Michael: Stanley, see this? This is this. This ain’t something else. This is this. From now on, you’re on your own.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077416/quotes
Gyges-
“I shouldn’t be responding to this, but I’m really bugged about something, your poor comprehension and retention of what you’ve read.”
Aw, that hurt my feelings.
“Quote from one of MY earlier posts ‘You can use a weapon defensively… but that doesn’t mean they are something other then a weapon.'”
You got me, either I missed that or I forgot it. And after a lot of thinking, you’ve pulled me to your side.
I think I have it straight:
A gun is a weapon and therefore can’t be used for safety. If you get hit in the head with a shovel, you don’t really have a skull fracture, because a shovel isn’t a weapon, it’s a tool for digging. Conversely, the people you see at the Olympics shooting at targets are not actually competitors engaged in a harmless sport, but are homicidal maniacs, as they are using weapons.
Also, correctional institutions don’t allow inmates to have steak knives because they don’t want unauthorized steak cutting.
Michael: Every time he comes up, he’s got no knife, he’s got no jacket, he’s got no pants, he’s got no boots. All he’s got is that stupid gun he carries around like John Wayne.
Michael: Stanley, see this? This is this. This ain’t something else. This is this. From now on, you’re on your own.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077416/quotes
This is just f’n funny.
F’n handgun owners; no respect for people or weapons.