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I'd actually prefer to both broaden the scope & make them more stringent at the same time. The way they wrote the law here you can't carry where alcohol is served. This includes restaurants that mainly serve food.

My preference would be that 1. Make the CCW qualifications more difficult, 2. Allow ccw anywhere except inside a courtroom with the requirement that if you carry you or maybe your party DO NOT drink

Or make a distinction between bars & restaurants with the requirement that if you CCW you DO NOT drink instead of #2.



See, now we can start working out the middle ground where compromise can be found.

We as a nation just have to get past the reflex "if you ain't with me, you're against me" point.

Any arguement for gun control is not an arguement against guns no more than speed limits and driver's licenses are anti-car (may not be an exact analogy but ya'll get the picture).

It's not an all or nothing proposition.

The debate is so polarized that neither side listens to the other or is willing to acknowledge that the opposing position has any merit.

As a citizen, I am willing to carefully and objectively consider laws that would allow CCW in specific circumstances/locations accompanied with very stringent requirements.

I'm just fearful of the blanket strapping on of fire arms to walk around the mall because their scared and angry (or their Viagra has kicked in and they're feeling frisky grin ).

True, no one has argued that point here (yet) but it will come to counter the "take away all guns" arguement. Both are emotion-driven and get us nowhere.

You make a good distinction between resturants and bars (volume of alcohol being consumed vs food consumed, lingering time, and statistical frequency of location specific violence).

Again, a national debate based on careful, reasoned, objective data and not the knee-jerk "they'll take my guns away over my dead body" arguements that get us nowhere.

For the record, if there was someone arguing to ban all civilian-owned fire arms, I would be arguing against them too.

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samhain autumnwood