At 10:30AM on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 South Carolina Governor Nikki Hailey will sign into law Bill S308 which modifies the training requirements to obtain a Concealed Weapons Permit, decreases the punishments for violation of the CWP law and, most importantly, gives CWP holders the legal right to carry concealed in an establishment that serves alcohol for consumption. Naturally, that last part comes with the requirement that the CWP holder not consume alcohol while doing so, and just as naturally, that's the part of the law the liberals and gun-grabbers are choosing to ignore.
The amount of mis-information and intentional dis-information being spread around about this law by the liberals and gun-grabbers just astounds me. The local newspaper for the Columbia area - and I refuse to name it and give the liberal, racist bastards the benefit of free publicity - ran a story last week which was, in my opinion, the biggest collection of half-truths, distortions, and dis-information I have ever seen. They featured three or four people giving their opinions in this article, one of which claimed to be both a bar owner and a CWP holder, and all of them said the same thing: CWP holders have no business taking a weapon into a bar and drinking.
And you know, they're 100% right. They're so right that the law actually prohibits it! Yes, that's right, friends and neighbors, the law that they're expending so much energy on bad-mouthing actually says the same thing they do, and prohibits CWP holders from consuming while carrying.
And if you can't drink while carrying, then what's the purpose of going into a bar in the first place? Guess the liberals never stopped to think about that, huh? Nah, that would only make them look like a bigger bunch of fools than they already are.
But of course, the liberals and gun-grabbers aren't going to acknowledge that part about the law prohibiting drinking while carrying. Nooooo, to do that would be to show the world that they really don't know what the hell they're talking about, and that their biggest fears of "old west-style shootouts in the streets" was nothing but the product of their over-active liberal imaginations and stood about as much chance of happening as that of a pig sprouting wings and flying away.
Anyone with a shred of common sense would realize that if the state of South Carolina decided that the citizens who applied for the license and completed the required training were mature and responsible enough to be granted permission to carry a concealed firearm, those same people were mature and responsible enough not to drink while doing so. One would think that would be a logical conclusion, but the liberals and gun-grabbers obviously think otherwise. They're all predicting drunken shootouts on the streets of Five Points, and just as the mass shoot-outs in Florida didn't materialize in the '90s when Florida enacted the first "must issue" law, the shootouts in the streets here won't happen either. No, the liberals refuse to realize that we CWP holders are mature, responsible adults who know right from wrong and who have proven by getting the permit in the first place that we intend to remain just what we are - law abiding citizens excercising our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
Aside from that, it's also just good old fashioned common sense that tells you it's not a good idea to drink while armed. Like the old saying goes, and anyone who's ever taken a firearms training class anywhere in the United States has already heard this, "gunpowder and alcohol don't mix." We're smart enough and mature enough to realize this, and I think the liberals and gun-grabbers do us a great disservice by ignoring this point. But of course they don't care, so that's that.
But getting back to that article for just a moment, I think the stupidest thing I heard came from the guy who said he was both a bar owner and a CWP holder. He said that he was afraid a drunken patron would take the weapon away from the person carrying it and do some harm with it. While this may sound like a valid concern at first, upon closer examination it proves to be nothing but crap. After all, the whole point of carrying a concealed weapon is that no one knows you have it. And if no one knows you have it, how are they going to take it away from you? Yeah, a real genius, this liberal is, but it sounded good in the liberal rag newspaper so he's happy as hell with it.
Moron.
I guess the thing that still amazes and dumbfounds me is that after all this time, after all of the true and verifiable information that has been published by reputable sources such as the FBI and the DoJ, the liberals and gun-grabbers still want to disarm me and take away my right to defend my life and the lives of others in the name of keeping me safe. Well, excuse me for asking the obvious question, but if you disarm me in the face of danger, how is that keeping me safe? Ensuring that the bad guys are the only ones who have guns by disarming the rest of us is the most insane, illogical, irresponsible and downright stupid thing I think I've ever heard in my entire life. For the life of me I wish I knew what it was in the mind of the liberals that makes them think taking away my rights and disarming me will keep me "safe." I also wish I knew just what it was that makes them think that outlawing firearms will solve the gun violence problem, considering that the nation did that with meth, acid, LSD, cocaine, and a whole bunch of other drugs a long time ago, yet we still have a drug problem. If it didn't work with drugs, just what makes you think it will work with firearms? And we won't even talk about the whole Second Amendment thing...
So while Tuesday will be a day of sorrow for the liberals and gun-grabbers in South Carolina, for the rest of us with common sense and maturity it will be a day of celebration. On that day our maturity and responsibility will be formally recognized, and we will no longer have to sacrifice our right to self-defense and safety by having to disarm just to take our wives, husbands, or other loved ones out to dinner. Common sense in this area of concealed carry has finally come to South Carolina, and to the liberals and gun-grabbers out there I say only this:
EAT ME.
IHC
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