What is so difficult about understanding that guns and alcohol don't mix? Are the gun rights advocates so blinded by their bias that they cannot distinguish between restrictions that make sense and those that don't?Shortly after 4 a.m. Saturday, Clarksville Police were responding to a fight in progress at 801 Providence Boulevard when it suddenly turned into a shooting.
Officers saw muzzle blasts and heard the shots just as they arrived at the scene. The officers also saw men running toward a woodline near 711 Providence Boulevard.
Police found a 24-year-old man nearby who was incoherent and bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds to the legs. Officers administered first aid until medical help arrived.
It seems to me many of the arguments we have about gun rights vs. gun restrictions are completely lopsided. The gun control folks make a suggestion, back it up with either statistics or common sense and logic, and the gun rights folks oppose it before even considering its merits. For many of the pro-gun guys it's enough that we're even talking about their precious guns for them to become contentions.
Permission to bring guns in bars is a perfect example. Who in their right mind could possible think introducing guns into a drinking, and sometimes a fighting, environment would help matters. This is pure bias. This is pure fear of eventually losing something that really matters, as if restricting guns in bars is the first step towards god knows what abominable restrictions.
What's your opinion? Do you think these gun-rights guys are a bit too contentious and a bit too single-minded?
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Since I was just a wee sprat I've heard that responsible hunters (99.9999999999999999999999999999999% of the people who engage in the pursuit) would never, EVER drink an alcoholic beverage while they were in the field with a weapon. This self-imposed restriction on havin'a good ol' time while armed up was, if my hunter friends and classmates are to be believed, mere lip service.
ReplyDelete"The citizens of the state of Tennessee have the right to keep and bear arms for their common defense; but the General Assembly has the power, by law, to regulate the wearing of arms with a view to prevent crime."
I bet that everybody in the well regulated militia be lovin' dat--until the state says, someday, "Boy, we were completely fucking INSANE when we wrote someathem laws! We need to rein in the KKKrazzees wit teh gunz--STAT!!"
But, I digress.
So, hunting, which involves manly tramping about the hills, dales, fields and some urban parks with slug-guns, shotguns and rifles is deemed an activity which common sense dictates is too fraught with peril to allow drinking by its participants.
Sitting in bars, getting drunk (or just "relaxed") on the other hand--no problemo. Got it.