Posted on 04/14/2010 8:14:29 AM PDT by P8riot
What happens if they consume alcohol?
A person who consumes alcohol in violation of the provisions of the law is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
“What happens if they consume alcohol?”
They miss their target.
"Beware of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss." Lazarus Long.
ping
And how do you prevent that?
so now the left will be suspicious of people who don’t drink. (or use drugs)
“Don’t mess with them, they are not drinking...”
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined...The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.”
-Patrick Henry.
Beats me.
You can't. Because you can't pass a law the prevents human behavior.
Before this became law, Virginians were still able to carry weapons into places that sold alcohol for on premise consumption... they just had to open carry (if you were concelaed you tucked your shirt behind the gun aka The Virginia Tuck).
That said most people that have a CCW permit guard it with extreme jealousy and are generally responsible people that don't want to lose their permit.
Is this granted even over the objections of the business owner?
RKBA trumping private property rights? If so, I strongly disagree.
The Constitution was created to limit the power of the government, not private property owners.
Restaurants? I find it inconceivable that carry was ever denied in restaurants.
Restaurants that are licensed by the state to sell alcohol. There was never a problem carrying concealed in other restaurants, unless they had a posted policy.
Tell me, where do the rights of private citizens end, and the rights of businesses begin?
I don't know about Virginia, but a similar restaurant-carry law was recently passed in New Mexico (goes into effect 07/01). Here all a business or property owner has to do is post a sign stating that guns are not allowed on the property, and that trumps everything.
Same here.
So nice of restaurants to post ‘no guns’ signs so we know which ones to avoid.
Businesses are "private citizens", since it is just such citizens who own them.
Your question is no different than: "Where to the rights of my neighbor end and mine begin?"
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