Gun nuts' alcohol debacle: Why their new booze scheme is the scariest yet

A couple of months ago, the NRA put out a little advisory about the open-carry protests pointing out that seeing a bunch of goofy-looking dudes and dudettes with rifles slung across their chests, wandering around Starbucks and Target like a bunch of blind salmon, seemed to be scaring the regular folks. We have led the charge across the country to not only protect our members’ rights to self-defense, but to expand it.” It would appear that Texas gun owners want to expand their rights yet again. But they claim that the real rub, naturally, is the idea that these events would require that guns be "disabled" and that the responsible drunk gun owner would be unable to take his new weapon home that very day. And compared with gun owners who kept their firearms at home unloaded and under lock and key, those who said they sometimes carry a loaded weapon for personal protection or who keep a weapon loaded and unlocked around the house were more likely to do things like drink and drive, and to engage in what substance abuse researchers call "binge drinking." According to witnesses who spoke with WSB-TV, the man wandered around the Forsythe County park last Tuesday night showing his gun to strangers, telling them “there’s nothing you can do about it.” “Anyone who was just walking by – you had parents and children coming in for the game – and he’s just standing here, walking around ‘You want to see my gun?