# Guns in bars **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 7, 2010, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-in-bars/531588 "2010-03-07T03:57:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 143
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-in-bars/531588/143 "2011-09-03T06:40:14Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > It would be nice for one person to say that they were wrong. It wouldn’t have to be a complete capitulation… Aw, what the heck. I was wrong. Now I didn’t participate in thread, though I did chuckle at Dio’s provocative remarks: > [@Dio](#): > > In my opinion, it’s completely idiotic to mix guns and alcohol, but I’m all for letting those idiots in Virginia learn the hard way. If they want to have drunk rednecks shooting at each other in bars, then let them have at it. … > > I believe the 2nd Amendment means what it says, and shouldn’t be abridged. I think people have the right to own whatever they want. I just don’t like gun nuts very much. Kind of like how I support free speech, but can’t stand Glenn Beck. Did anybody else find those 2 lines hilarious? I sure did. But I digress. Years ago, I thought the CCW experiment would end badly. I was wrong. So I didn’t participate in this thread: I withheld public judgment because I knew that I had been wrong once and the law seemed to apply more to CCW types than hopped up drunken rednecks with impulse control issues. I privately thought that this _might_ end badly… or might not, given the CCW experience. I would not have liked to place a bet on the matter. Looking forward, I want 4 additional years of data and a real study. I don’t anticipate the general pattern changing… though it could. It just would be nice to nail down the statistical significance and cull out any unanticipated behavioral patterns. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-in-bars/531588)._