With the liberal media being as anti-gun as they are, I am amazed at the progress that gun rights proponents have made in recent years. In Virginia, concealed handgun permit holders are currently not allowed to carry concealed firearms in any restaurant that serves alcohol. (Open carry is legal.) There is a bill making it's way through the General Assembly that would remove the stipulation, and leave it up to the business owners to decide whether or not to permit patrons to carry concealed in their restaurant. The 'wild west' analogy being carted out by the liberal denizens in the media isn't very surprising, but the Virginian Pilot, which has a history of being gun-unfriendly, takes it to the hysterical extreme.

Their bill (SB579) would allow sober Virginians with a concealed weapon permit to carry their guns into a bar. Its flaw is that it ignores what happens when one of them gets sloshed and refuses to leave.

This is exactly the predicament the law should outlaw.

Why is the liberal answer to gun violence always involve banning guns? It doesn't seem to work for bars in Georgetown, where all handguns are banned every where. For the record, Virginia doesn't have any bars, and there are already plenty of laws that cover outlaw drunken trespassing criminals who refuse to leave peaceably. In Virginia getting sloshed in public, with or without a gun, is already illegal. An officer can enter any restaurant and place you under arrest for being over the legal limit of 0.08; whether or not you are driving, carrying a gun, or whatever. (That actually happened several times in Fairfax). Of course, trespassing is also illegal. And when a patron refuses to leave when asked, armed or not, you should call the police. (As opposed to having your bouncer beat him to within an inch of his life.)

What this really is, is yet another anti-gun news outlet shoveling propaganda down the throats of their readers.