13 Shot Outside Arizona Nightclub

[TexasBill]

77. You're exactly right

In Texas, it is against the law for even a person who has CHL to enter any establishment that derives 51% or more of its income from the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. It is also a crime to carry a handgun into any premises that has the required 30.06 sign posted. In some other states, it's not an offense unless you refuse to leave when asked, but in Texas, it is a separate misdemeanor offense.

Firearms can be an enabling device to escalating violence but, contrary to popular belief, they don't seem to be needed to incite or inflame violence. Just look at the violence that accompanies international football (soccer). People actually get killed in those riots without a gun in use anywhere.

The reality is that if guns weren't carried illegally, there wouldn't be much need to carry them legally. However, as has been proven over and over and over again, wishin' don't make it so.

The disconnect is that someone who uses a gun to commit an illegal act is already a lawbreaker. It doesn't matter whether a murderer uses a gun, knife, or frozen leg of lamb to commit the crime, they are now a criminal. Use of a firearm in the commission of an illegal act is already an aggravating circumstance in most, if not all, states and carries additional penalties. In this way, society targets the problem (the criminal) without making a new class of criminals who have done nothing wrong.