Virginia Is For Gun Lovers

This will all turn out great, I can feel it.

Last year, the state legislature in Tennessee overrode Gov. Phil Bredesen’s veto of a bill that would have allowed gun owners to carry their weapons into any restaurant except those whose predominant business was to serve alcohol. After the law “was later declared unconstitutionally vague,” Bredesen is currently deciding whether to veto a new bill state legislators passed this year that has “no exclusions for where guns can be carried, as long as permit holders don’t consume alcohol.”

But other state measures have the potential to go a bit further. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) recently signed a bill into law that allows “concealed carry permit holders to bring loaded guns” into bars. But the local gun lobby is trying to get it changed so they will also be allowed to consume alcohol. And in Georgia, the state house recently passed a bill would make it “legal to enter a bar or restaurant with a licensed concealed weapon and get drunk,” as long as the individual doesn’t fire the weapon.

Yeah, because noooooobody who's drunk has ever tried to fire a weapon.  Note to self, must nominate Georgia state house for Darwin Award...