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“GUNS IN BARS” WAS BEYOND STUPID
by Alan Korwin

Background: In Arizona, people with CCW permits, and anyone in legal possession of a fiream, are banned from eating in restaurants, if the restaurants have liquor licenses. This means they must leave their firearms in their cars, or go without them altogether, if they plan on having a meal in most regular restuarants. There have been serious efforts to fix this problem. In 2005, a solution was close, but the news media literally lied and acted hysterically, in an effort to defeat the restaurant-carry bill. There wasn't even a semblance of balance, fairness, or accurate reporting on this, a case of fundamental rights on the line. The news media showed its collective hatred of guns, gun rights and gun owners. The bill was narrowly defeated, but it will be back again next year.

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NOTE: After four months of deceptive reporting, leading to the defeat of an
important bill, the Arizona Republic today (Mon. 5/23/05, circ.: 500,000)
finally set therecord straight (sort of), by publishing an editorial I wrote
addressing the grotesque media abuses we endured. See it on p. B7, or
read it below.Surprisingly, it ran unedited. Not surprisingly, the truth
remained supressed until now.

 

Why on Earth would the NRA promote laws so “gun-toting” people could “pack heat” in bars and not drink? Say what? That doesn’t even make sense. It’s beyond stupid. And in fact, the NRA promoted no such thing.

But you wouldn’t know it from reading the papers or following newscasts. The inaccurately characterized “guns-in-bars” bill received twisted coverage, using derision and phony Wild West mythology, from reporters and editors who earned rebuke for such unethical spin.

While reporters cried wolf and instilled fear in a public they misinformed, 70,000 FBI-certified Arizonans, licensed to discreetly carry firearms, just hoped they would finally be allowed to eat meals in normal restaurants. Without leaving their guns in their cars as current law requires. They know it’s a bad law that leaves them defenseless. They know criminals routinely steal guns from cars.

Rather than deal with important issues -- self defense and civil rights -- on the merits, reporters deceived you, and wrote in a gun-o-phobic way that cries out, literally, for medical attention. Editors who allowed frequent demeaning slurs deserve reprimands.

Dignified treatment? The news foisted silliness about shotguns in nightclubs. This was really the Breakfast-at-Denny’s bill, because Denny’s has a liquor license. It was lunch at Applebee’s, with no drinking allowed. But news people didn’t want you to understand that, because if you did, you might support it, as 34 other states do -- without problems. The media instead fed you hokum:

1: If CCW holders (and all innocent gun owners) can have guns in restaurants, blood will run in the aisles. How long will the media promote this nonsense? They said it ten years ago when the CCW law passed. It has been proven false. Get off it already. It is the terrified psychological projection of “hoplophobes,” people with irrational, morbid fear of guns. It’s time to remove such bigotry from newsrooms.

2: Banning guns in restaurants makes everyone safer. To believe this, you must believe hoodlums and psychopaths stay out thanks to door signs. C’mon. Gun-free zones with no security provided are a hoax, known to be dangerous and negligent. The only people stopped are honest ones. Disarming innocent people is an act of violence. Criminals remain armed under such fraudulent feel-good fantasies. People who create these reckless zones should be held liable for any harm they cause. Here’s the ugly non-secret -- shopkeepers take no steps whatsoever to keep out armed criminals -- they just come and go. Storeowners know it.

3: Lobbyists’ desires are more important than your rights. The right to arms is precious, time-honored, exceedingly valuable. Guns save lives. Guns stop crimes. Guns are why America is still free. Liquor lobbyists (a fine group to set moral standards), adamantly refused to change the liquor laws to neatly separate restaurants from other liquor vendors. Media bigots hid this from you. Governor Napolitano bowed to them.

Decent, hard-working, honest Arizonans, who want to, and have a right to keep their safety tools with them as they travel, eat and work, were crushed by elitists who hate guns and hate Americans’ gun rights. It’s not good to hate. I’ve documented many similar news-media abuses, about the Minutemen, the new school gun-safety program and more, at my website, gunlaws.com. They can’t win with facts, so they deceive. Disgraceful.
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Alan Korwin is the author of seven books on gun law, including The Arizona Gun Owner’s Guide, now in its 21st edition. He can be reached at alan@gunlaws.com.

 

 

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