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KBCraig wrote:

Liberty wrote:

barres wrote: There are some reasonable limits to where a CHL holder can carry. Schools are not one of them. Neither are bars, since carrying while intoxicated is already illegal. But that is just my opinion.

Not everyone who enters a bar (a 51%er ) will get intoxicated.

I think that was the point: Bars are not one of the places where it's necessary to restrict carry.

Exactly what I was trying to say. Since carrying while intoxicated is already illegal, and some who carry in a bar aren't even drinking at all*, bars shouldn't be off limits to CHL'ers. Neither should schools. Prisons should be off limits to CHL'ers, though. I'm undecided about courtrooms, personally.



* My father and I used to go to bars to play pool, and, since playing pool well requires good hand-eye coordination, we didn't drink while we played. Of course there was also the fact that I was underage at the time. So not everyone who goes to a bar is necessarily drinking. What about the "Designated Driver?"

Flatland2D wrote:I kind of loosely compare this to the "if your old enough to go to war, you should be old enough to vote" philosophy. If I am a concealed handgun licensee, than I should be able to carry anywhere I go during a normal day.

I work on prison facilities 5 days a week. That's normal for me. Should I be allowed to carry there? I don't care how alert you are, walking down a prison corridor with 20 inmates walking in one direction on one side of you and 20 more walking in the other direction on the other side, it is impossible to watch all of them all of the time.

There are some reasonable limits to where a CHL holder can carry. Schools are not one of them. Neither are bars, since carrying while intoxicated is already illegal. But that is just my opinion.