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Deep down I don't think the bar manager had a personal disagreement with me carrying a gun but as someone else recently said, if she wants to keep the business open she has to follow state liquor laws. If she allows me to carry a gun on the premises and the authorities found out, the bar could be cited and even a suspension placed on their license. No business is going to risk its entire operation over one individual.
One of the carry rights that I think more gun owners should focus on is ridding our society of "weapons free zones." You should be able to carry a gun ANYWHERE without exception and any private establishment that refuses should have to be personally liable for your safety. I want to enjoy life without being paranoid but at the same time I have to do these "what-if" scenarios in my mind once in a while because I refuse to be a victim at least not without a fight.
I would like someone here to tell me what I am supposed to do if I am sitting in a nightclub with my girlfriend enjoying a nice bevarage, the front door opens, and a man in a long black coat walks in, pulls out a rifle, and starts shooting randomly. Because bars are "weapons free zones" I would actually have to get me and my girlfriend out to the nearest exit and I probably wouldn't even be able to and if so I would already be severely wounded. Then I would have to get to the car which is a block away, unlock the car door, and then unlock the safe, and then load the gun. Then if I wanted to goback in and be the "hero" of the day, by the time I could even be in a position to do something, I would be walking over nothing but bodies. Sorry for the graphic images but apparently nobody in authority or much of the general public has learned anything about 9/11, Virginia Tech, or Columbine all of which were "weapons free zones."
