That is not what the Second Amendment says. It’s here, written by probably — I guess after the ACA was decided last year. If I was to ask you who your favorite Supreme Court Justice is, most of you would tell me Scalia. Well let’s hear what Justice Scalia has to say: Like most rights the second amendment right is not unlimited; it is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever, in any manner whatsoever, and for whatever purpose. The court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. Millers' holding that the sorts of weapons protecting are those in common use at the time find support in historical tradition, of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons. This Bill is not about the second amendment, it’s a policy issue that’s proper for this floor to hear and debate. Despite what you read in your emails the last few days, my favorite of which have been the ones that compared my amendments to those in Nazi Germany, I am not anti-gun, and I am not anti-second amendment; I grew up with firearms, I own firearms. I just have the good sense to know that just as alcohol and driving don’t mix, alcohol and firearms don’t mix. Our current policy prohibits concealed weapons in restaurants and bars the serve alcohol, and this policy is a 180 degree change to that. Instead of saying now they are prohibited, now they are allowed. And I just think it would be some good sense for us to discuss that policy before we have a vote. In three terms, no single restaurant owner has ever asked me for this right. And maybe some property owners do want the right to allow firearms in their businesses, I don’t know why they’d want to assume that liability, but maybe they do. And just like you may choose to only attend or go to dinner at restaurants that allow you to take your weapon, I’ll choose to stay out of that. What I do know, is that I don’t fear like the emails try to say, I don’t fear a return to the Old West. That’s not my problem with firearms, that’s not it at all. But I do fear an escalation of disputes. You know, just this past weekend at Smithfield's, two ladies got in an argument in a bar, a sports bar about 1:30 at night over a man. And one of them went out to the car and got a firearm and shot four people. Now I realize that this prohibition would not have prevented that from happening, but it’s a good example of why some people believe that alcohol and firearms don’t mix. That’s based on my strong opinion of being seventeen years in the legal practice and seeing some crazy things people do when they’re drinking. And weapons just don’t go with it. Now, Representative Pitmen a few weeks ago gave us a handout, earlier in the session, and it talked about the results of Virginia passing this type of bill, and I think it makes a good point that they have not any mass shootouts or anything like that in bars, but they have had individual incidents, and that’s what I worry about. When I go out to a restaurant with my family, I don’t want to have to worry about the guy next to me if he’s had too much to drink. I’m already worried about being out to late, that he might run me over, but now I’ve got to worry about how he’s handling the firearm that he’s got stuck in his sock. I’m going to send you an email that shows you the second point of my concern with this bill. And it’s just — accidents happen. In the email you’ll see incidents of three accidental shootings that have happened just the last few months. In Kansas three weeks ago, a man accidentally shot his wife when he reached into his pants pocket and accidentally discharged a small weapon. He had a valid, carrying a concealed weapon permit. A few weeks later, a family eating inside a Chinese restaurant in Colorado nearly missed being shot when a man inside a restroom accidentally discharged his weapon. According to the news report he too also had a valid weapon and had not been drinking. And of course, there was the incident here, well, it was nationwide — we had three in one weekend, but we had the gun show here in Wake County where we had an accidental discharge and a couple of people were shot. And that’s the main problem I have with the bill, is because an accident happened, and the more places we have guns the more accidents we’re going to have happen. If you don’t believe me, tonight or tomorrow, maybe tomorrow, stop by the Verizon store and ask them how many people a day drop their phone. I think you’ll be surprised how many people come in there to get their phone replaced. Ask them how many of those people drop their…