HB 111 Restaurant Carry Bill in North Carolina

HB 111, the Restaurant Carry Bill now sits in committee. I have written to my "representative" Deborah Ross, urging her to favorably vote it out of committee. My point to the anti-gun Ms. Ross was that States all around North Carolina have restaurant carry, and have had no problems with it. Virginia is the most recent, last year. Virginia has had no problems with it either.  So, what do North Carolina legislators think will happen differently here?

Meanwhile, it appears Ohio is going through the same thing this year. A piece by Gerald Valentino on the Buckeye Firearms site entitled The Biggest Myths Gun Control Myth is Trotted Out Again in Debate over Restaurant Carry in Ohio. explains how the discredited "blood in the streets" meme is once again being used to stop restaurant carry.  It is a good article, and I hope you will go and check it out.

Back here in North Carolina, it is sometimes difficult to determine before going in whether a restaurant serves alcohol or not.  Now, the big chain restaurants like Ruby Tuesday, and Applebees do serve alcohol, though to be honest, I have never seen anyone drinking it in one of these restaurants.  Most people are drinking Sweetened Ice Tea.  I have capitalised the words Sweetened Ice Tea because the drink is a sacred institution, and the State drink of North Carolina.  The mint julep, not so much.  In any case, most of the one off Mom and Pop barbecue stands and fish joints do not serve alcohol.  Most Mexican restaurants do, while the Chinese seem to be divided.  But Chinese also can easily fool you.  They usually don't have a bar, and the fact that they serve alcohol is often well hidden until you sit down.  So, is there blood in the streets outside barbecue joints?  Didn't think so.  So what is really going on here?  My guess is it is plain old hoplophobia rearing its head.  Some people are irrationally afraid of guns.  Like most irrational fears, as long as they don't see a gun, these people go about their merry ways unaware and unconcerned.  But when the legislature brings up a bill, these people suddenly are afraid they will see guns everywhere.

Of course, Ms. Ross is not hoplophobic.  Ms. Ross is a gun grabber who takes advantage of, and even stokes the fears of her constituents to get what she wants.  And what she wants to take away your guns.