TN: Gun is Restaurants Bill Vetoed

In North Carolina we have similar stupid laws that prevent permit holders from carrying in restaurants that serve alcohol. Off duty cops in North Carolina can carry where alcohol is served as long as they don't imbibe. What makes sense for one group should make sense for the other. I was interested that in Tennessee they were trying to make a "common sense" change, but I was gonna take a pass on the veto until I read Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen's rationale for vetoing HB962, the "guns in restaurants bill." The bill would have allowed handgun carry permit holders to carry their weapons into "restaurants" that serve alcohol. His "rationale"?

“I remember from the course there was one thing that teacher drove into us day in and day out … that message was guns and alcohol do not mix,” Bredesen said. “That was a common sense proposition back then, and it is every bit as true today.”

What a condescending ass to assume that permit holders are so lacking in "common sense" that they would go to a restaurant and have a drink while they're carrying. What a condescending ass to think that permit holders aren't aware that "alcohol and guns don't mix". This bill was passed with enough votes to override Gov. Bredesen's veto and by his statements he's expecting it. I hope Tennessee's Legislature doesn't disappoint him.