Booze and guns

FWIW, I won't knowingly be in the same place as someone who is drinking and handling firearms. Any more than I will climb into a car with a driver who has had even one drink. It has been proven over and over that even one drink impairs people's judgement and reactions.

Why would you mix alcohol and firearms? What the obsession with alcohol? Why does it HAVE to be part of every activity? Is it such an essential ingredient of a "good time" that you can't enjoy any activity without including it?
 
susieqz said:
i never met a judge that would allow such case to go to trial. if you are 1/3 the limit, the case should be dismissed.
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There enough studies done to show that alcohol impairs a persons reflexes, impairs judges, even one drink. For one beer, one glass of wine, one 1 1/2 oz whiskey it will take about 1 1/2 to 2 hours to clear you system. Michigan has a impaired driving and drunk driving laws, it just depends on the BAC. same fines and jail time.

I was taught the booze ans gun powder don't mix.
 
There is a big difference between drinking before a planned activity that involves shooting (going to the range or hunting) and being armed and living your life.

I'm armed whenever I leave the house. Sometimes I like to have a drink with a meal. The two are not mutually exclusive for me. If they are for you, good deal.

I know many folks here have guns in the home. I know many people here like to have a drink. I'm sure everyone rounds up the guns and locks them up (can't have the combo to the safe, of course - too dangerous) before opening a cold one.

Maybe we should leave preaching to the preachers.
 
Not a dadburn thing wrong with making sure there is no ammo in the gun, room or in close proximity and then admiring and or looking at your gun or collection while having a few drinks! If you're not responsible enough to handle this, then maybe you shouldn't even have any firearms to begin with?
 
My Dad was a firm believer in mixing hunting and drinking. After hunting all day, we'd set up camp and they adults (I was still a kid) and later me would drink to unconsciousness, it was part of the ritual. Obviously we didn't get early starts the next day. I've realized in my getting older that the fun was in the getting drunk and the hunting was an excuse for the wives. I can say that my Dad, nor any of his hunting buddies ever hunted under the influence. Learned a lot about drinking, not so much about hunting. Maybe that's why I don't do either these days.
 
When I was in high school, I used to hang around with a local gun collector. I liked to visit him at his home to talk about antique guns and learn about them. He was also a drunk. I wasn't there when it happened, but one day he was handling a loaded gun while drinking. The gun fired, struck his daughter, and she was permanently crippled.


That didn't stop him from drinking and doing stupid things. Another time at his home, drunk again, he wanted to show me a Randall knife. He tossed it to me so that I could get a better look. Instinctively I caught the knife with my left hand. He was drunk, I wasn't thinking, and I still have the scar. I'm not a fan of anyone consuming alcohol while handling anything that can make me bleed.
 
THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE BREAKING IN FOR.

Rustyt1953 said:
If I am in my home partaking and some miscreant bursts through my door intent on harming me and mine, the last thing I would worry about as I am drawing my holstered pocket pistol would be what they find in my bloodstream.
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A hot button topic for sure. I drink 2 fifths of rotgut whiskey a day & have no problems. :rolleyes: :eek::eek::eek:
 
jimmyj said:
Someone should explain this to Marshall Matt Dillon (who is always having a beer with Miss Kitty
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Kitty got a 50% kickback on every drink a customer bought for her, so in order to enjoy her company, one had to buy her a drink.
 
I made the mistake of going on a dove hunt with a group of high school buddies way back when. Once they brought out the case of beer, which I didn't know they had, I went to the far end of the field as far away from them as possible and stayed there until the hunt was over. They never figured out why. That was the last time I went hunting with that group and vowed to never do it again.
 
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