Comments on: Arrogance is in the eye of the gunholder http://thinktrain.net/2009/05/29/arrogance-is-in-the-eye-of-the-gunholder/ Sat, 03 Jul 2010 02:31:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rob Robinson http://thinktrain.net/2009/05/29/arrogance-is-in-the-eye-of-the-gunholder/comment-page-1/#comment-14048 Rob Robinson Fri, 29 May 2009 21:03:46 +0000 http://thinktrain.net/?p=1185#comment-14048 Thanks for commenting, John. I hope that, if the bill is passed, it will somehow make things safer, but I'm skeptical. I expect that most legitimate gun owners have good intentions about being able to defend themselves and others, but I'm concerned about how things will play out in practice if this bill becomes law. Thanks for commenting, John. I hope that, if the bill is passed, it will somehow make things safer, but I’m skeptical. I expect that most legitimate gun owners have good intentions about being able to defend themselves and others, but I’m concerned about how things will play out in practice if this bill becomes law.

]]> By: John Fesler http://thinktrain.net/2009/05/29/arrogance-is-in-the-eye-of-the-gunholder/comment-page-1/#comment-14045 John Fesler Fri, 29 May 2009 20:19:32 +0000 http://thinktrain.net/?p=1185#comment-14045 I can understand one's concern about this bill, but I think it is more of a 2nd Amendment issue than it is a "gun in a place where they serve liquor" issue. Georgia has a law that is very similar, and studies have shown the bill allowing firearms in such establishments has not caused a spike in violence. This bill allows permit holding people to carry those handguns into restaurants like O'Charley's, Logan's, etc...I think everyone has a vision of this being people carrying guns in a bar, and shooting the place up, when my opinion is the bill was made for just the opposite reasons. I can understand one’s concern about this bill, but I think it is more of a 2nd Amendment issue than it is a “gun in a place where they serve liquor” issue.

Georgia has a law that is very similar, and studies have shown the bill allowing firearms in such establishments has not caused a spike in violence.

This bill allows permit holding people to carry those handguns into restaurants like O’Charley’s, Logan’s, etc…I think everyone has a vision of this being people carrying guns in a bar, and shooting the place up, when my opinion is the bill was made for just the opposite reasons.

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