Lawmakers are vowing another showdown over the guns-in-bars-and restaurants law as early as January. The law was struck down Friday by Nashville Chancery Court Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman, who said it was ambiguous and therefore unconstitutional.
Reaction has been swift and strong. Restauranteur John Chaffin, who owns Chaffin's barn, tells News 2 the gun law made him feel safer. But the Tennessean's Gail Kerr calls it "the worst thing to happen to a tourist town since Prohibition." She reports that some visitors have canceled their trips to Nashville because they feared it would not be a friendly place.
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So technically we're allowing people who usually get drunk in bars to have guns. So drunks are allowed to carry guns. Quite smart. I'm amazed at how big an issue this is, when its common sense that drunks don't know what they're thinking in the first place it's stupid to put a gun in their hand.