Like all right wing causes, the topic is always about them, and their hurt feelings or rights.
But what about those people affected adversely by their bullying tactics? What about families who don’t feel safe and even consider guns in public dangerous, what about their rights?
Their rights are given short shrift, as you’ll see in this in Tennessee.
Their rights are given short shrift, as you’ll see in this in Tennessee.
NY Times: Gun rights advocates … may applaud the new law, but many customers, waiters and restaurateurs here are dismayed by the decision. “That’s not cool in my book,” Art Andersen, 44, said as he nursed a Coors Light at Sam’s Sports Bar and Grill near Vanderbilt University. “It opens the door to trouble. It’s giving you the right to be Wyatt Earp.” Tennessee is one of four states, along with Arizona, Georgia and Virginia, that recently enacted laws explicitly allowing loaded guns in bars. (Eighteen other states allow weapons in restaurants that serve alcohol.)Those are the four states off my list of vacation spots, thank you very much. Thank god I visited Nashville before the gun nuts got the right to stroke their steel penis’ in public.
So far, the law has been challenged only once. Filed by an anonymous waiter, the complaint contended that allowing guns into a tavern creates an unsafe work environment for servers. His complaint was denied by the state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health. “A loaded concealed weapon in a bar is a recognized hazard,” said David Randolph Smith, a lawyer who represents the waiter and is preparing to appeal the decision. “I have a right to go into a restaurant or bar and not have people armed. And of course, the waiter has a right to a safe workplace.”Which gets to my bottom line; The public aversion to guns in public places is not a consideration at this point, because no one’s been given the chance to challenge the gun bullies in court.
Down at Bobby’s Idle Hour, however, Mike Gideon, who characterized his 19-gun collection as “serious,” said that having a few permit holders around made any public space safer and that he boycotts any business that does not allow him to carry a weapon.Guess what guys, families will also boycott businesses and feel like prisoners in their own community while every Tom Dick and Crazy walks around proving their point about their interpretation of the first amendment. Over at Gawker.com:
I know what you're thinking: There's no way that's safe! Don't worry, though—you're only allowed to carry your piece of death-machinery inside the legal-inebriation center as long as you're not getting inebriated. So what if some guy in Virginia shot himself in the leg with his own gun while drinking a beer in a bar?
When it comes to pleasing these gun stroking hobbiests, someone should thank them for not caring.
If we're talking personal rights (and responsibility) here (pretending for a moment that such things still exist in today's world), wouldn't the best answer be something along the lines of...
ReplyDeleteA private-citizen individual has the right to carry a loaded firearm (and is personally responsible for any damages caused by such).
A private-citizen business owner has the right to disallow loaded firearms (or bare feet, or smoking, etc.) within his/her place of business.
The best answer would be to default in favor of no one carrying guns in the open or concealed and having a police department. Hey, we had that. Wow, what an idea.
ReplyDeleteIn regards to the story, ask yourself why anyone would want to carry a gun into a bar and drink soda? Really? WHY?