Reply #14: That doesn't mean jack. Make it legal to have a gun in a bar some will feel empowered

[kenny blankenship]

to carry it in concealed and drink themselves stupid. Stupider. It's moving the boundary. The boundary isn't a brightly colored line everyone observes perfectly all the time. It's the fact that the boundary just moved that they respond to. It's the approximate placement of the boundary they respond to. Make the highway speed limit 65 MPH and people will drive 75. Why not make the limit 75 then to spare all these people, who're after all only doing what everyone else does, from being lawbreakers? Because then they'll drive 85. And when they drive faster more of them will be killed in accidents.

Assholes could carry a gun concealed into a bar and drink before the law gets changed to allow guns in bars. The difference is now they've received a signal that this is closer to OK, that it's a minor infraction of the rules instead of a big one, and you can bet more assholes will do it.