N.C. Law On Guns In Bars One Year Old
BY Herschel Smith
10 years, 2 months ago
WNCN:
A state law that allows concealed carry permits holders to take their guns into bars and restaurants is now one year old, but even though the law is set in the books, the debate over concealed carry has not died down.
Restaurants can still ban concealed carry by posting signage at their entrance.
Raleigh’s Players’ Retreat off Hillsborough Street is one such restaurant.
“That’s the reason why I’m here,” Rose Caldwell said. “I would not be comfortable dining in a place where I thought people were bringing weapons.”
But the gun rights group Grassroots NC said that sign makes Players’ Retreat and hundreds of other restaurants that ban concealed handguns across North Carolina “high risk,” according to a running list on their website.
“I don’t want to be sitting in a restaurant that’s posted where I can’t carry my weapon safely and concealed on me,” said Josette Chmiel with Grassroots NC. “And in the chance that it gets robbed or somebody comes in, a criminal, a felon, shooting, that I can’t defend myself. To me, that’s a high risk.”
State lawmakers made it legal to carry concealed handguns in places like bars, movie theaters and in locked compartments of cars on school and state government parking lots one year ago Wednesday.
So what’s the result of the law? Is the blood running from the bars out into the streets from all of the gun fights? We get our answer next.
“And there’s been no incidences, so the law is playing out exactly as we thought it would,” Chmiel said.
You mean that the blood isn’t running in the bars, just like for the Mississippi open carry law, the blood isn’t running in the streets from all of the gunslinger scenarios like in the movies? You mean that the gun control lobby is dead wrong? You mean that people who openly carry weapons waited until it was legal because they are peaceable citizens? You mean that the folks who waited until it was legal to carry in bars did so because they are peaceable citizens?
Wait. Something’s wrong. That’s not the narrative they want us to hear.
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On October 6, 2014 at 12:10 am, McThag said:
Clearly you were killed in the ensuing blood bath.
On October 6, 2014 at 9:57 am, Paul B said:
It is never the narrative they want to hear. Since most of their thoughts come from the echo chamber of their own minds. Since they are so smart, doesn’t everyone want the same things they do?
Did not like them on the play ground, do not like them in the real world.