Posted on 07/14/2012 6:00:16 PM PDT by marktwain
New York allows bar carry, and drinking while carrying (no BAC limit). If NY hasn’t banned it (being hell-bent on enacting gun bans on any pretext), it’s not a problem.
Someone told me it was federal crime to carry in a bank? True or not?
One exception to this list is hospitals, uniquely for the reason of raw oxygen and other compressed gases, and other flammable materials which can be insanely deadly in the presence of spark or flame.
I saw pictures that were a wonderful way of explaining this. Taken at a welding school, a pressurized tank of gas fell over and knocked the head valve of the tank off. Like a torpedo, it punched holes in both sides of thick concrete bays, one after another, 5 or six total, before finally punching through an exterior brick wall, crossing a street and breaking, but not penetrating the brick wall of an adjacent building.
And that gas didn’t even ignite to do this.
In any event, the interior walls of a hospital are laced with pressurized gas pipes, electrical wiring and plumbing. Heaven knows what a stray bullet could do.
However, this being said, if a hospital has armed security personnel be-bopping about, they are likely indifferent to this threat, and are more concerned about crazy people, with or without drugs.
But that is not the problem of a legitimate cc holder.
Does it really matter in a life or death situation whether or not someone obtained a government issued permit prior to defending themselves?
Does the government issue permits for rapists, robbers, psychos, and gangsters?
No?
Why the incessant demand for law abiding citizens to “prove” our worthiness to defend ourselves with lethal force?
Yes, I honestly abhor the current airline ‘security’ practices. I only fly when I don’t have an option of driving.
I think they ought to offer a second security model. The first of course is the current sheeple model. The second would be issuing (or letting people bring their own) pistols to everyone on the plane. Make sure everyone has Glaser or some very low penetration ammo and off you go. Anyone who gets up and starts trouble would be down in short order.
That's a very strange comment, particularly from a Christian.
This is actually not totally correct. These laws vary state to state. The writer may be writing about his particular state, but not every state is like his.
In Wisconsin for example you can carry concealed in a bar. However you cannot be drinking alcohol.
I’m from Edmond! Graduated Edmond High in 1979. I believe I was living in Austin, TX when the shooting occurred. I lived off 33rd and Coltrane. :)
I hit post too fast. I was going to add that it must seem surreal that you knew Sherrill, and that someone you knew would actually do what he did.
“I hit post too fast. I was going to add that it must seem surreal that you knew Sherrill, and that someone you knew would actually do what he did.”
Actually I have been aquanted with two murderers in my life. In hindsight maybe maybe what Pat did could have been predicted since he was strange and a loner. I also have two friends that Pat had worked for and they said they had lots of problems wih his performance at work.
The other guy was seemed very normal and was very good worker and worked at the same place that I did. His was a very different crime though. I guess you might call it a crime of passion as he killed his giirfriend’s husband.
NJ
Not true. I have open carried in numerous financial institutions. One manager told me it was illegal. I politely asked her to check.
A few minutes later, she came back and apologized. I wrote a letter to her supervisor praising her for her professional manner.
Who is/was “Pat”?
Pat Sherrill, the shooter at the Edmond (OK) post office massacre in 1986. The source of the term “going postal”.
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