Guns In Bars: Lawsuit Hearing Delayed
Published: July 7, 2009
A hearing has been delayed on a lawsuit to stop a law that allows handguns to be carried in Tennessee bars and restaurants that serve alcohol.
The hearing was scheduled for Tuesday. But plaintiffs’ attorney David Smith said it was delayed until July 13 to give the state attorney general’s office more time to review the case.
The lawsuit seeks a temporary or permanent injunction to prevent the law from taking effect on July 14.
One reason the lawsuit gives for stopping the law is that it’s an “unlawful public nuisance that unreasonably threatens the life, health and safety of the public.“
Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen vetoed the measure in May, but the Tennessee General Assembly voted last month to override the veto.
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How I understand the law is that you still can’t take your gun in bars with age limits and these people that are against this law that allows us to carry our guns into restaurants that serve alcohol probably take their kids into these place. I think if they think that people are going into these restaurants and are going to get drunk and take their gun and do something crazy, they need to worry about either getting a law passed to keep children out of these places or stop the selling of alcohol in these places. I mean if they are saying that people are going into restaurants to get drunk than they have no business letting kids in these places around alcohol, They worry about guns but they have knives and forks everywhere in there that could kill someone.
I guess these are the same people that goes in there and have a couple of drinks then drive their kids home right after drinking, but they worry about a gun that is safely put up in someone’s pocket that can’t have a drink because they have a gun.
it’s an “unlawful public nuisance that unreasonably threatens the life, health and safety of the public.“
One could say the same thing about alcohol served in those very same restaurants….
Murders in Tennessee in which a firearm was used ( 2005 & 2006 Source: Chattanooga Times ) less than 250/yr
Alcohol related highway deaths in Tennessee 2005: 473 2006: 509
(Source NHTSA.gov )
People who live in glass houses….....
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