The point regarding OTC medication and confrontation with a co-worker is moot because this law pertains to an establishment in the alcohol serving business, not the hurt feeling/ pharmacy business.
And my point is that the law is intended to mandate certain reactions regarding our liberties.
Your argument doesn't put aside "liberal and conservative" viewpoints, it specifically iterates your accession to government's decision to make rules about things for which they have no business making rules.
You say "establishments serving alcohol" and, either deliberately or ignorantly, neglect to consider that a family of four dining at Applebee's on a Wednesday at 6 PM is exactly the same, under the laws of the Commonwealth, as a group of revelers at The Canal Club on Saturday at 11 PM.
In the eyes of the law they are identical and you are saying that a husband and father should not take his family out for supper at a restaurant which happens to serve alcohol because the opportunity for a drunken patron to assault him and abscond with his personal defensive weapon is increased due to his proximity to alcohol?
Do you realize the inanity of that statement? That's exactly what you are saying. And, though I know it could bring on the kind of flaming for which only the internet provides opportunity and motive... and at the risk of appearing the "bad guy"... I went out last night with my family to a restaurant which serves alcohol. I had a hearty meal and enjoyed a beer with it.
I did so in the presence of a table full of Virginia Beach police. Then, I got on my motorcycle with my openly carried sidearm and rode home.
I didn't shoot anyone. Nobody lunged for my gun as I was leaving, despite that I walked past the "bar" area of the restaurant replete with some questionable and possibly inebriated characters and neither did I ride my sled into a busload of school children.
Again - it is an issue of personal responsibility, situational awareness and libertarian perspective. You don't believe you could be responsible and therefor
PROJECT that disability/weakness/discomfort onto others around you.
It is immoral and unjust to characterize or dictate to someone else for your own insecurities. It is a fatal flaw in most legislation as I see it today.
superlite27 said:
Why does their condition alter the justification of your fear?
Thank you, sir.