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Guns in a bar. Sure, what could go wrong there
Not much.....
Allowing guns into bars has ‘surprising’ result - WND
When Virginia passed a law allowing concealed carry in bars and alcohol-serving restaurants beginning July 1 of last year, opponents of the change decried the dangers of mixing guns and alcohol, for fear violent crimes would escalate.
But one year later, the Richmond Times-Dispatch did a study to see if the gloomy prognostications came true.
According to state police records, not only did gun violence in bars and restaurants not increase under the new law, it decreased by 5.2 percent.
In fact, of the 145 reported crimes with guns that occurred in Virginia bars and restaurants in fiscal 2010-11 (compared to 153 incidents in the year before the new law took effect), only two of the aggravated assault cases were related to concealed-carry permit holders. In one incident, the crime took place at a restaurant that didn’t serve alcohol – thus unrelated to the new law – and in the other, the weapon was neither discharged nor withdrawn from its holster.
“The numbers basically just confirm what we’ve said would happen if the General Assembly changed the law,” Philip Van Cleave, president of the pro-gun Virginia Citizens Defense League, told the Times-Dispatch. “Keep in mind what the other side was saying – that this was going to be a blood bath, that restaurants will be dangerous and people will stop going. But there was nothing to base the fear-mongering on.”
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More.....actual research by Richmond Times-Dispatch
Gun crimes drop at Virginia bars and restaurants
The number of major crimes involving firearms at bars and restaurants statewide declined 5.2 percent from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011, compared with the fiscal year before the law went into effect, according to crime data compiled by Virginia State Police at the newspaper's request.
World Nut Daily advocates guns in bars. Why am I not surprised?
And all WND did was point out what his other article showed, which was from Richmond.com. I assume they are a right wing news source too, right? Got nothing else to attack so attack the source because you don't like the contents?
The facts are guns in bars have been tried with wonderful results. Why are you against that? Do you want people helpless and defenseless? I mean I know the left needs their victims to stay in power, but really? You don't want people to be able to shoot back?