Do you drink alcohol at all? (yes, it's firearms-related)

Do you drink alcohol at all?

  • Yes, I do.

    Votes: 100 69.0%

  • No, I do not.

    Votes: 45 31.0%
  • Total voters
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Well I don't drink simply because I give a damn about my right to bear arms WAY more than I do about alcohol
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Except that the fact that I have a glass of wine with dinner is not why the antis want to take our guns away. C'mon....

Nor does everyone who has a drink turn into a vicious drunk.

If y'all don't tone down the rhetoric this one's going to get locked faster than you can say "Corona with lime".

Springmom
 
Given the toxicological effect of ethyl alcohol on the human body, it's very unwise to drink for recreational purposes. Ethyl alcohol is a poison. It's "toxic." That's why the root word in the word "intoxicated," is "toxic."

A person who drinks has to some degree been "poisoned."
 
If I drink it is usually at a party. I never carry when going to a party and I usually don't order a drink with meals or anything and rarely at home, so I think I'm covered. I'm a social drinker really, and when I drink I am very social.
 
No, but it has nothing to do with guns. It has to do with watching my Grandfather die from liver cancer (from a "healthy glass of wine" every day, he wasn't a drunk), stepping around over drunks in the gutter daily in Ecuador and seeing a few guys who drowned in the night because they passed out in the gutter which then filled with rain from those pesky tropical downpours...

So I choose to not drink, my choice, with my reasons. Anybody else that wants to, I don't care. Just live with any consequences to your actions (not just drinking though).
 
If y'all don't tone down the rhetoric this one's going to get locked faster than you can say "Corona with lime".
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Agreed.

carpenter, no one's disagreeing.
 
My father is an alcoholic.

My grandfather was a drunk (he didn't go to meetings).

My two brothers have spent good portions of their lives drunk or drugged.

My sister went to federal prison due to cocaine.

I think that it is best to learn from the mistakes of others, so I don't drink.
 
From Mark Twain...

"Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself."

"Temperate temperance is best. Intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance, while temperate temperance helps it in its fight against intemperate intemperance. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky."
 
I hate these threads.

It's where our collective American Puritan streak comes out, and it's not our best moment.

Yes, alcohol is destructive.

For some people.

But not for everyone, and not in all cases.

And them's the breaks, that's just how it is. It's not a judgement, moral or otherwise, nor is it an assertion of superiority/inferiority of one or the other.

It's just simple, unadorned fact, and our society has a hard time grappling with that.

Isn't the whole point of American Liberty live & let live? Isn't the whole point of self determination to determine, for oneself, what is and isn't prudent? Isn't it embedded in our founding the idea that one-size-fits-all simply doesn't work?

Isn't the whole idea of enforcing one's beliefs onto another entirely repugnant to our ethos?
 
Great window on human nature, though, geek.

People here advocate killing my dog because of her appearance, and total abstinence from fine wine with fine meals, and wonder why other people might think it's a good idea to ban black rifles or have a "gun-free society."
 
Yes, alcohol is destructive.

For some people.

But not for everyone, and not in all cases.
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I completely agree. My family has a history of alcoholism, but the two most recent generations of it have handled it well so far, with no problems. Moderation is essential for alcohol, just as with anything else.
 
Curious bit of trivia.

In Olympic rifle contests contestants are tested for alcohol. A few years ago a medal winner was disqualified because he had too much alcohol in his blood. The Olympic officials believe that a six pack of beer ( or equivalent) will improve a bench rest shooter's scores.

Who'd figured?
 
Yes, but usually only on Mondays ($1.50 margarita night at the local Mexican restaurant w/ friends) and Saturdays.
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OK! Happy Hour exemption to less booze=more guns rule!
 
Nope. I'm not a drinker.

Unless you count Listerine & I don't since it's not swallowed.:uhoh:

EDIT: I thought I should mention that I'm also 19 so it's not legal for me to drink. But underage kids get beer all the time so I view it as something I could do but won't.
 
Yep I do, I have a beer once in a while...

I have this situation where orphan beers end up at my house, well being a responsible adult and the head of the household (don't tell my wife I said that) it is my obligation to properly dispose of these beers in an appropriate manner... :neener:
 
I drink rarely, and not very much when I do. Since I do carry, about the only time I allow myself a drink is when I am at home (while legal to do so in my state, I personally do not believe in having a drink while carrying).
 
Being Irish, I have to have a Guiness now and then. And being Catholic, I have to have a sip of wine at communion every Sunday. And each fall, I make up 10 or so gallons of muscadine wine (most of which I give away.)

But I carry a gun because I might have to use it. Since I can't predict when or where I might have to use it, I carry it everywhere, all the time. And for the same reason, I don't do anything to impair my reactions when carrying. I do my drinking sparely, and (other than at Mass) in my home.
 
Nope, no sense of moderation. Some people just can't drink responsably and I was one of them, although my first choice wasn't alcohol. :cool:25 years and counting.
Hey Vern. I don't even sip the wine anymore. I wish I could have a toddy now and then, but I won't try it.

Yea - lock it - it doesn't have squat to do with guns anymore.
 
No! I do not drink alcohol. But my refraining from those types are beverages has nothing to do with my firearms carry. If you chosse to drink, that is your bussiness and not mine. I do feel that you should not carry and drink at the same time. "Guns and Who Shot John don't mix", John Wayne in "The Shootist" and that is a very valid statement. As long as your drinking does not encroach on my rights or peace, do what you will. Now, grant me the same freedom.
 
I'm sure that a higher-tech sedative would work even better.

Benchrest shooting is not like Olympic Trap or Skeet. It doesn't require great reaction time or full-body coordination. What it requires is a meditation-like mind free of distractions and a hand free of nervous shaking.

A six-pack certainly lowers mental activity, and distraction is what gets in the way of all types of competitive shooting. With benchrest, you don't need to be able to stand up.:p

There's some point where your judgment would be so impaired as to get in the way of your performance, of course, but someone who practices enough could theoretically determine the optimal blood alcohol level.
 
In Olympic rifle contests contestants are tested for alcohol. A few years ago a medal winner was disqualified because he had too much alcohol in his blood. The Olympic officials believe that a six pack of beer ( or equivalent) will improve a bench rest shooter's scores.

Who'd figured?
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That actually goes back a long way.

If you pull gun mags from the 40's & 50's, you'll see articles remarking on how most of the firing line in competitions were plastered. Drunken NDs were laughed off, as long as no one got hurt.

The old army pistol manual I read once had a page written in a chatty style, as if by the chaplain, talking about the use of Quaaludes in matches. IIRC, it went something like, "Now, I know that most of us have thought of using quaaludes to improve our scores..." Actually, the thought would never have occurred to me in a zillion years.

The practice fell out of style when the level of competition was elevated beyond whatever dubious benefit being lit offered, and sober people held the decisive advantage.
 
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