I carry concealed most of the time. I also don’t drink at all, but that’s my choice. If someone has a CCW permit, they have passed a background check and should be able to drink responsibly while carrying. If someone is carrying without a permit, odds are they might also drink irresponsibly.
But that doesn't mean other business's shouldn't have the right to allow it.
Emotion, rather than facts, apparently drive his thought process. New Hampshire has never had a legal ban on carry, open or concealed, in bars or restaurants or nearly anywhere else, and continues to have one of the lowest crime rates in the nation.
In fact, a bar bouncer was saved from injury by an armed patron of the bar not long ag.
And since it is concealed you don't know it's there anyway. So what's the problem?
A leftist looks at America and see 300 million potential terrorists and criminals.
A conservative looks at America and see 300 million potential deputies.
The conservative way is the right way to look at America.
You don’t know if anyone has a concealed weapon in a bar. At least the permit holders are not criminals.
“Nobody knows if they have a gun because it’s concealed so I think there could be some major liabilities,” said customer Zac Frederick .
That’s the point, Zac. The coward scumbag criminals don’t know this either, thus making them all think twice about assaulting or robbing someone.
I don’t think that restrictions are the business of the government. It should be solely left up to the business owner.
There is one exception to this, however. If the police determine that a bar is a “disorderly house”, because of brawls and other problems, they can and do directly appeal to the State liquor licensing board to suspend or revoke the liquor license.
This has nothing to do with guns, and everything to do with behavior. And because a liquor license can cost upwards of $50,000, most bar owners are very responsive when it comes to police complaints.
The full Militia, Police and Public Safety committee met this morning and the following bills passed and are now on their way to the House Floor for a vote next week. All passed by wide margins:
HB 171, Delegate Pogge, prohibits employers and others from banning firearms left in locked vehicles in parking lots. Gives employers immunity if such guns are misused. The bill was amended to add a few exceptions - STRONGLY SUPPORT
HB 79, Delegate Ware, prohibits Circuit Court Clerks from divulging CHP applicant information to anyone but police in performance of their duties - STRONGLY SUPPORT
HB 885, Delegate Athey, allows a non-CHP holder to have a loaded gun in an unlocked compartment or container in a personal motor vehicle or boat - STRONGLY SUPPORT
HB 1070, Delegate Athey, allows CHP holders to carry in an emergency shelter - STRONGLY SUPPORT
HB 49, Delegate Lingamfelter, repeals one handgun a month - STRONGLY SUPPORT
HB 870, Delegate Cline, repeals the option for localities to fingerprint first time CHP applicants - STRONGLY SUPPORT
HB 26, Delegate Wright, clarifies exactly what paperwork is required from a CHP applicant - STRONGLY SUPPORT
HB 8, Delegate Carrico, clarifies that a CHP holder can renew through the mail - STRONGLY SUPPORT
HB 108, Delegate Cole, requires localities auction guns purchased in a gun buy-up - STRONGLY SUPPORT
HB 236, Delegate Janis, allows someone to shoot a gun within 1/2 mile of a subdivision if they do so safely - STRONGLY SUPPORT
HB 109, Delegate Cole, repeals a state law that allows localities to tax and collect information about handgun sales - STRONGLY SUPPORT
HB 1191, Delegate Griffith, allows judges to approve Circuit Court Clerks to issue CHPs - STRONGLY SUPPORT
HB 490, Delegate Lingamfelter, authorizes the State Police to come up with a plan to issue lifetime CHPs - STRONGLY SUPPORT
HB 69, Delegate Carrico, Virginia Firearms Freedom Act (10th Amendment protection for guns made and sold in VA) - SUPPORT
HB 1217, Delegate Lewis, allows school boards to offer firearms safety programs - SUPPORT
HB 1092, Delegate Crockett-Stark, allows retired police officers to be able to carry without a CHP - NEUTRAL
HB 637, Delegate Armstrong, waives CHP fees for boarding officers of the U.S. Coast Guard - NEUTRAL
HB 1379, Delegate Sickles, allows Fairfax and nearby localities to required that firearms in child-care facilities be stored in a state specified fashion - NEUTRAL