showing the lie of their words

Do you want to know why the phrase “guns in bars” is a pointless exercise in fearmongering?

As I write this post, I am sitting within about 25 feet of four separate loaded firearms, each with between six and 30 rounds of ammunition already inserted into them, and magazines full of about another 250 rounds within that same radius.

Within that 25-foot bubble, there are also about five gallons of various forms of alcohol, ranging from Two Buck Chuck to sake to a few other things in between.

Finally, I live in an apartment complex (at least for the time being), with the resulting thin walls, really-next-door-neighbors, and high population density.

In short, I could get up from where I am sitting, get so wasted I could hardly stand, and ruin a lot of peoples’ lives – far more than I could if I did the same at a bar. The same is true for every single other firearm-owner in Tennessee who possesses both loaded firearms and alcohol at their habitations.

And, yet, keeping a loaded 1911 and a fifth of Jack in-reach at home is perfectly and 100% legal here in the Patron State of Shooting Things – as it rightfully should be. So why are we not allowed to do the same out in public? How is allowing one, but banning the other, in any way, rational, reasonable, or logical?

Simply put, it is not. Sitting at home, we make the choice to not get smashed and go on a shooting spree – we can, and the massively-overwhelming majority of us will, make the same regardless of where we are.

Even discounting the logical disconnect of “guns and alcohol in the same room at home” is ok, but “guns and alcohol in the same room in public” is ZOMGENDOFTHEWORLD, Tennessee does not even have bars. Guns-in-what, again?