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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Ohio lawmakers Wednesday passed a bill allowing gun owners in the state to carry concealed weapons into bars and other establishments where alcohol is served.

...Opponents said mixing guns and alcohol would endanger public safety

Oh really. Mixing alcohol with guns might be dangerous. Who'd a thunk?

What a great idea mixing alcohol with guns!

It is such a good idea, Virginia got into the act.

Arizona and Wyoming lawmakers are considering nearly a half dozen pro-gun measures, including one that would allow residents to carry concealed weapons without a permit. And lawmakers in Montana and Tennessee passed measures last year — the first of their kind — to exempt their states from federal regulation of firearms and ammunition that are made, sold and used in state. Similar bills have been proposed in at least three other states.

Wisconsin wishes to get into the game.

Minnesota is trying its best.

Arizona almost does away with permits of any kind.

Oh, and for a nice review of Federal Laws do not feel degraded to review wiki's contributions to the subject!

Now just focussing on Ohio for a second, one might infer that gun laws are not an easy subject, even for repub legislators or capitalists that own those legislators.

Ohio's law will let you go into a bar with a concealed weapon; it is just against the law for you to enter the establishment in an intoxicated condition. Oh, and you cannot order a drink. Ahhhhahahahahahah

Just by the wayside here, the human condition and not liberals is the reason for all our regulatory legislation.

Ford found a way to not only manufacture automobiles but to pay his workers enough to purchase one of those contraptions.

And following a ten hour day of putting cars together on a Friday, those workers might hit a drinking establishment prior to going home in order to let off a little steam. A lot of steam in those old manufacturing plants!

So naturally, these folks at the turn of the last century ran into a little trouble as they say. That is they had their fill of brew, got into their cars and drove them into trees and street lights and other people.

So states had to deal with this new problem created by our new technology.

And you might recall that George w. was lucky in that he hit the tree rather than a person. ha

Minnesota currently arrests and convicts approximately 33,000 folks who are found to be legally drunk while driving their horseless carriages!

People die as a result of drunk driving.

Now we have problems resulting from our contstiutional protections of course. I mean you cannot operate your pc or your ipod or your phone without the Feds cutting in from time to time!

I mean, just saunter down to our local mainstreet (the old mainstreet that is dying, that is dying all over this frickin country) and on any week end night, you will find drunks outside their favorite bar, smoking with a beer in their hands and ready to get into their cars within an hour or so in order to get to their abode somewhere within the next twenty miles.

The cops, who are stationed one block from this celebratory area, are supposedly forbidden from sitting somewhere on mainstreeet with their computers and such; and arresting everyone who comes out of a bar and into their car—at least the driver side. Hahahahah

So they don't.

Anyway, back to the main point!

WHY WOULD ANYONE DRIVE TO A BAR WITH A CONCEALED WEAPON AND PURCHASE A NONALCOHOLIC DRINK FOR FIVE BUCKS?

I don't get it.

Why do people visit bars?

I mean there are excuses.

People go to bars to get high and get rid of their sexual inhibitions laugh with their friends.

So lets all go out and get high, and get rid of our sexual inhibitions and laugh with our friends—just so that we are protected with a 357 Magnum—just in case.

Are these people nuts?

I forgot the link, but some state is allowing concealed weapons as long as they are not loaded. Hahahaha

That is like finding a less than stellar woman for bedtime without Viagra. Don't yell at me I heard this epiphany on Rush. Hahahahah

This huge issue reached its zenith with the recent Supreme Court decisions.

When the United States Supreme Court farts, the odor is smelled around the world!

You know the right wished to impeach Earl Warren because he believed in Equal Rights.

Well I say: IMPEACH CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS AND JUSTICE ALITO AND JUSTICE SCALIA AND JUSTICE THOMAS TOMORROW!

I already alluded to the Federal Statutes at Wiki and such.

Here is an example of a moron who had a question concerning his right to purchase tomatoes while holding an M16:

Does any one know if grocery stores in Ohio with liquor licenses are "class D" licenses or not?
The only info I can find from the state says
"Premises that dispense liquor. Concealed firearms are also banned
in a room or arena in which liquor is dispensed for which a class D
permit has been issued. A class D permit is generally issued to an
establishment that sells alcohol for consumption on the premises. Be
certain of the type of permit and whether liquor is being dispensed
before you enter with a concealed handgun." (emphasis mine)
I asked a local store owner about why he posted a no fire arms sign and he was not even aware that it had been posted. He assumed that his manager posted it because it was sent with their liquor license.
He personally said "You're welcome to carry in my store" but I want to make sure that he is not mandated by ATF to post. His is the only grocery store in the area posted. (all sell beer and wine, most sell liquor)
We had a rather long conversation about the pros and cons of CCW.
He is pro 2nd amendment and believes that crime rates decrease when private citizens are armed.

To sum up, most of these laws permit the capitalist to ban guns in his/her establishment.

I recall strolling down the Main Street of Minneapolis or St. Paul and signs would be posted saying:

NO GUNS ALLOWED

What does that mean?

If I am a cop can I go into the establishment?

And what if my gun is not loaded—you know I left the Viagra in the car.

And who would discover that I had a concealed weapon?

I bet you that if you strolled into some Wall Street firm, there would be a huge sign and some contraption that made you feel you were entering an airport checking to see if you have a gun!

So if you decide that you would like to be erect, and manly, and ready for business and you decided to stroll down some down town biz district with your powerful gunpowder armed penis inside of your jacket coat; I would guess that you could not pick and choose which establishment you could enter.

And I guarantee, and you can take this to the bank, that every serious biz owner is going to have to install an scanner at his place of business. Ha

the end

Oh and check out these links. I mean how does a cop, off duty or on duty transport his firearm?

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_a_police_officer_carry_a_concealed_weapon_on_an_airplane#ixzz1PSjPXYyW