frankie_the_yankee wrote:
I just have an issue with the "no alcohol ever" people, who claim that even one drink is an impairment and, hence illegal and wrong.
Most of what I've seen isn't saying it's illegal and wrong. The way I interpret this and the way most of those you say are callling it illegal and wrong interpret this, in my view is:
There is no definitive legal definition of what constitutes intoxication as it relates to carrying a concealed handgun therefore, many, myself included, CHOOSE to not carry even after 1 drink. With one drink (or 2...), you probably would not be arrested as intoxicated, however nobody really knows where that line will be drawn in any specific case. Except that no alcohol absolutely = no impairment from alcohol. Others choose differently. More important to me than the possibility of arrest, which is I agree is unlikely with 1 drink, is the aftermath of a shooting where any alcohol is involved. Criminally and Civil liability wise, any alcohol = bad news IMHO.
By the way, with ANY alcohol ingested into the body, I believe there is impairment, maybe so imperceptable as to not be a problem, but the effect of alcohol is there to some degree. But so is caffeine, just ask a coffee drinker who misses their morning cup.