WashPost: VA legislature passes CCW in restaurants

[K-Romulus]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/vi...senate_votes_to_allow_guns.html?hpid=newswell

The Democratically-controlled Virginia Senate has voted to allow concealed weapons permit holders to carry guns in restaurants that serve alcohol, as long as the person carrying the weapon does not drink. The gun bill passed on a 22 to 18 vote, after senators had a vigorous debate about whether or not people might have a reasonable reason to carry guns in restaurants.

The House has passed a similar bill; Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) has expressed support for the measure, and is expected to sign it into law. Both chambers also passed it last year, but Gov. Tim Kaine (D) vetoed it. (...)

And be sure to hit the poll; the anti-gunowners are ahead 80-20.

 

[krucam]

Congrats VA. I'm on board assuming no drinking by the carrier.

Hit the poll, 19% agree - 80% oppose.

 

[Norton]

yup.....

 

[guthook]

80-19. Come on, hit it!

 

[K-Romulus]

Congrats VA. I'm on board assuming no drinking by the carrier.

Hit the poll, 19% agree - 80% oppose.

Yeah.

It seems that the bills that passed might have some differences that need smoothing over in committee. We will have to see, I may have spoken too soon.

But the moonbat brigade is definitely speaking its mind on the internet, starting with the comments to the Post story.

 

[BUFF7MM]

When will it take effect?

 

[jonnyl]

Yeah, nice comments: Here's a good one

Ah, good ol' Virginny. Heart of the South and home of the Confederacy, the death penalty, tobacco, and guns. In Virginny: right to own guns>right to life.

So glad I live up North in oft-derided "communist/socialist" Maryland with some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, and next door is DC which has THE toughest gun laws in the nation. The rednecks/neocons in Richmond sure have their priorities straight.


SE DC, West Baltimore, and parts of PGC would be like Baghdad if we had laws like VA lol

Posted by: TheMarylander | February 16, 2010 5:49 PM

as if DC, West Baltimore, and PG county are oh so safe now... heaven forbid you let regular folks defend themselves..

 

[Cowboy T]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/vi...senate_votes_to_allow_guns.html?hpid=newswell



And be sure to hit the poll; the anti-gunowners are ahead 80-20.

Not any more, they're not!

As of right now, it's now 75% for, 24% opposed. Good work, fellow gun owners and patriots! Good work!

 

[The3clipser]

On a side note would anyone have any questions for Tim Kain? He's faculty in my major here at school and I belive I have a dinner with him scheduled in the near future. If I can I will ask him why he vetoed this last year but besides that is there anything else?

 

[novus collectus]

On a side note would anyone have any questions for Tim Kain? He's faculty in my major here at school and I belive I have a dinner with him scheduled in the near future. If I can I will ask him why he vetoed this last year but besides that is there anything else?

Also ask him about the bill he passed against Bloomberg's straw purchase publicitiy attempts making them illegal at the same time.

 

[Brychan]

It's now
Do you agree with the Virginia Senate's decision to allow guns in restaurants?

No-24%
Yes-75%
Total number of votes 21246

 

[haoleboy]

Most of the comments make me nauseous. Why is it that all liberals think gun owners lose their minds when we have a few drinks?

When this law becomes effective, neither myself nor any member of my family will dine at _any_ restaurant in the Commonwealth of Virginia!
They have _enormous_ restaurant taxes in this state anyway -- and NO one in the state's Republican party is suggesting those go away -- so on top of that to now have it made more convenient for some gun-crazy inbred cracker mountain man Baptist from Virginia Beach to actually _SHOOT_ us?
To hell with it. Let the GOP eat out in Deadwood. As for _my_ family? We're done!

Posted by: monklewis | February 16, 2010 4:30 PM | Report abuse

 

[kstone803]

hit it. and we are crushin em. as for that guy not eating in VA anymore, I see myself stopping before I cross back into MD next time im across the 301 bridge

 

[MikeTF]

Most of the comments make me nauseous. Why is it that all liberals think gun owners lose their minds when we have a few drinks?

Because erroneously shot loads induced by excessive alcohol consumption is the root cause for deviant liberal offspring.

 

[Cowboy T]

Because erroneously shot loads induced by excessive alcohol consumption is the root cause for deviant liberal offspring.

Oh my God, fellas. You think those are *liberals* who want to take our rights?? No, no, no!

Those aren't liberals, folks. *I'm* a liberal. Novus Collectus (from what I read) is a liberal. *Those* folks are pinko commies. Rush Limbaugh and others like him insult the word "liberal" when they refer to those pinkos as such.

 

[The3clipser]

Double post, my bad...

 

[The3clipser]

Wow, I just saw a reasonable statement on the interwebs.

I'm a Virginian. I don't own a gun, I don't care for guns, and I disagree with the assertion that we'd be better off if more people carried guns to protect us from the bad guys.

That said, I don't go about my business afraid that the citizens around me might be armed, and whenever I've gone into a restaurant, I've never even considered that I was "safe from gun owners" since they couldn't conceal carry into the restaurant. Never entered my mind.

A jerk who will wave a gun around or worse, use it in anger, will carry one on him law or no law. I'm not worried about the people who've taken the steps to comply with the law who carry a firearm.

 

[OnTarget]

Just a reaffirmation today of what has already been said:

Bill that allows guns in VA bars heads to Governor McDonnell
Posted: Mar 02, 2010
"A bill that allows people to carry concealed handguns into bars has won final legislative passage and heads now to Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell for his expected signature."

http://www.wvva.com/global/story.asp?s=12070775

 

[Boondock Saint]

Anyone know if this bill has taken effect yet?

 

[demmo]

76 - 24 now