It's like Russian Roulette, but every Friday night

Apparently, four states - we'll include Arizona as honorary Confederacy, as they're certainly trying to move that way in the short run - have taken the time in their busy state legislative calendar to explicitly allow the carrying of loaded handguns into bars. I'm never going to a bar in Arizona, Georgia, Virginia, or Tennessee. That shouldn't be too difficult, as I don't intend to find myself in any of those four states anytime soon...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/us/04guns.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

NASHVILLE — Happy-hour beers were going for $5 at Past Perfect, a cavernous bar just off this city’s strip of honky-tonks and tourist shops when Adam Ringenberg walked in with a loaded 9-millimeter pistol in the front pocket of his gray slacks.

Mr. Ringenberg, a technology consultant, is one of the state’s nearly 300,000 handgun permit holders who have recently seen their rights greatly expanded by a new law — one of the nation’s first — that allows them to carry loaded firearms into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol.
“If someone’s sticking a gun in my face, I’m not relying on their charity to keep me alive,” said Mr. Ringenberg, 30, who said he carries the gun for personal protection when he is not at work.