[Deadeye Division]

bang

[ClearCase_guy]

By this logic, anyone should be allowed to bring a gun on to an airplane, or into a court hearing. No more metal detectors!

Perhaps some people feel this way, but I think most people recognize some limits. It's like yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater. Yes, you have free speech, but it is possible to push it too far.

[Salvation]

And what does Frist say about guns? I really want to know because I think he is against them.

[Puppage]

"It is clearly not a good idea for people to carry a concealed weapon into a bar, where people's judgment has the great potential to be impaired."

So, leave your weapon at home.....have a belly full of liquer, then hop into your 3,000 pound weapon & go home. Yep, sure do make sense to me.

[Centurion2000]

They do the exact same thing here in Texas as well. No guns in federal or state buildings and courthouses.

Possible rationale: too easy to engineer a breakout.

[Kerberos]

"While you could replace the word "bar" with "Statehouse" and that sentence still makes perfect sense"

LOL.

[Lysander]

"It is clearly not a good idea for people to carry a concealed weapon into a bar, where people's judgment has the great potential to be impaired."

And now we clearly jknow why it is not a good idea to carry a gun into a government building... impaired judgement seems to abound in those places too!

[Archangelsk]

It also banned guns from places that serve alcohol, as Sen. Jeff Jacobson explained: "It is clearly not a good idea for people to carry a concealed weapon into a bar, where people's judgment has the great potential to be impaired."

While you could replace the word "bar" with "Statehouse" and that sentence still makes perfect sense..."

Roaring, laughing on the floor, scaring the dog. I imagine the intent of the author was to compare state legislators to drunks. Oh, the irony, thanks for the post.

[EBUCK]

While this writer really is pooh-poohing the anti gun mantra he has a point. That point is that politicians are hypocrites, liars and will say/do anything for a few votes. And when it comes down to it they know that what they do every day would have been a death sentence in the early days of this country. They know it and quite a few law abiding, gun carrying citizens know it.

EBUCK

[MissTargets]

The gun bill will return again in January, likely passing the House by March.

This will be the revised Senate version, I presume. I've got mixed feelings, on this one. Pass it, and try and get some of the restrictions off later? I doubt it. It's taken years to get this far.

[chuknospam]

bump

[caspera]

This is a stupid argument. Government buildings are well guarded. There are plenty of people walking around with guns. The question is what do people do when they have to go about their daily lives in places where there are no guards. If for some reason it were stipulated that armed guards and police had to stay 2 miles away from every goverment building and could not respond to emergency calls from that building for at least 15 minutes, then I bet you bureaucrats would be all in favor of an armed citizenry.

Also, this author does not know what "to beg the question" means.

[FreeTally]

I personally think that a courthouse is the only possible place that a law prohibiting everyone from carrying a gun into may be ok. Otherwise, the guard would be forced to make sure any person walking in with a gun was carrying legally and was not a violent felon. It would be impractacle. And if they didn't confirm this, a friend of the accused, in any case where some thug is on trial, could just walk in and blast people when the verdict was unacceptable.

I think bar owners should be able to set their own policy. I dont think there should be a law imprisoning someone for breaking the policy, but the bar should certainly be allowed to have law enforecemt escort the person out and swear a tresspass warant against the person.

[joesnuffy]

fish in a barrel syndrome

[ZULU]

"the amended gun bill that passed the Senate this month (but later died for lack of a House concurrence) expressly prohibited people from carrying guns into the Statehouse or any other government building."

Whatever idiotic liberal moron wrote this obviously has read very little history.

Some of the most belligerant, armed societies that have ever existed forbade carrying weapons in certain areas. Obviously a courtroom or government building or church should be one of these.

Why don't these pacifistic Tarzan-clones get a life and stop showing everybody how idiotic they really are.