Very unapologetic about their title. Very country-club.
Posted on 09/20/2012 11:08:32 AM PDT by Daffynition
POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. —
Kristina Brown and her husband own Lakeside Guns Shop in Acworth, but they are in the process of building a $3.5 million gun range called The Governor's Club in Powder Springs.
Brown told Channel 2's Dave Huddleston the club will be state of the art and have a lounge that serves alcohol.
A new sub division is being built about 100 yards from the club and some home owners in the area off C.H. James Parkway and Elliot Road think having a gun range and alcohol in the same location is a bad idea.
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We belong to a private gun club...and while the bar is seldom *open*, when it is, I’ve never seen anyone who has had a drink/been drinking go on the line. I’ve never really thought about it much...I think there is a lot of *self-policing* aka responsibility going on.
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This is not about guns. It is about alcohol. It is about constructing a booze joint next to a new (residential?) development. Back in the day, I lived close enough to a bar that nobody would step on my fingers on the way home.
Sometimes my wife would say, "How come you came home half-drunk?" to which I could only respond, "I ran out of money."
After they brought my son home in a long box due to his Escort being run over by a Greyhound bus, due to him following my example, and after he had a long, wet night after work, I finally decided that alcohol is not my friend or anybody else's.
I didn't lose my wife and son because of because of being on the Syracuse University Rifle Team, or of having Expert rating in M-1 Rifle, M-1 Carbine, and BAR, or of going to the gun range whenever I could.
Alcohol and people don't mix. Most certainly guns and alcohol do not mix. People, guns, and alcohol do not mix. If you are going to drink, leave your car home. If you are going to drink, leave your gun home. If you are going run into an argumentative drunk, stay away from bars when you are carrying.
Why do these entrepreneurs need to run a booze joint with their range? Can't their range make a profit without the booze sales? How about just having a restaurant that everyone that has children and hates booze can go to? Etc.
Are guns the curse of the drinking class? You have your opinion, I have mine.
Respectfully --
This is a common misconception. The Second Amendment--and the rest of The Bill Of Rights, too, for that matter--places limits only on the Federal Government, and--by extension through the Fourteenth Amendment--on state and local governments. It in no way limits private individuals, who are free to impose whatever limits on your rights they choose--except where specifically prohibited by law.
A private employer may, for example, limit your freedom of speech, your freedom of assembly, or your ability to bear arms in his workplace, or even off of his premises if you are "on the clock" working for him.
betcha that the swiss don’t have thousands of bottom-dwelling torts ‘lieyers’ lurking in wait for something to go wrong..
That's about what I remember from my days there.
There are a couple of high-end gun clubs in Dutchess county, NY that have VERY nice dining facilities for the members - think “Country club with guns”.
Definitely not a problem.
Very unapologetic about their title. Very country-club.
Good point!
I hear ya.
I’m so sorry for your loss.
As stated above, I think the owners understand their liabilities with this venture from the get-go.
It’s risky enough to own a gun range and a customer, who has little or no training in firearm safety does something stupid.
I’m thinking about all the golfers who hang around a *Nineteeth Hole* w/ their buddies after a round ....and then they drive home..........
Top 10 Red Neck Gun Safety Tips:
10. Always keep your gun pointed in a safe direction, such as at at hippie or communist.
9. Dumb children may get a hold of your guns and shoot eachother. If your children are dumb, put them up for adoption to protect your guns.
8. No matter how responsible he seems, never give your gun to a monkey.
7. If guns make you nervous, drink a bottle of whiskey before heading to the practice range.
6. When unholstering your weapon, it’s customary to say “Excuse me while I whip this out.”
5. Don’t load your gun unless you are ready to shoot something or are just feeling generally angry.
4. If your gun misfires, never look down the barrel to inspect it. Have someone else do that for you.
3. Never use your gun to pistol whip someone. That could mar the finish.
2. No matter how excited you are about buying your first gun, do not run around the store yelling “I have a gun! I have a gun!”.
1. And the most important rule of gun safety. Don’t pi$$ me off!
“8. No matter how responsible he seems, never give your gun to a monkey.”
NOW you tell me.
Sure there is a risk, but there is also mitigation. Some bars go so far as to check patrons car keys, which they won’t return unless the patron passes a Breathalyzer test.
Others provide lounges for patrons to sleep it off if they drink too much. Lots of ideas out there.
I wonder at people who come to the *burbs* and move into a development that borders a dairy farm...and even though that farm may have been there for several generations...they complain about the *smell*.
What will one beer do to ones senses to preculde them from shooting well? I can drink 2-3 beers and juggle 4 balls. What is your point?
Case in point, there is a sugar mill about 2 miles away from my house, been there for nearly 100 years.
A subdivision was built about ¼ mile away from it, basically in the middle of sugar cane fields.
Idiots bought houses and now complain about the noise during harvest season. (Steam turbine powered, about the sound of a F-15 taking off with afterburners on at times)
Farms to mill road runs through subdivision for tractors pulling wagons, idiots who bought houses complain about that.
My sympathy for those folks is a negative number………..Idiots.
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