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Meanwhile in Georgia...

How's THIS for some bias?:

Note to waiters and waitresses: Smile when you hand out the menus, and no arguing over 5 percent tips. Gays were addressed in the Legislature last year. God will be taken up this winter, with a bill to permit the public display of the Ten Commandments on every spare section of Sheetrock in Georgia.

This leaves guns as the most neglected member of the Republican trinity of sacred issues. But not for long.

Lobbyists for the National Rifle Association are quietly buttonholing the state's GOP leaders, pinning down support for legislation that would allow concealed weapons to be carried into many Georgia restaurants and food-serving bars — though not nightclubs.

It's been tried in other states, with varying degrees of success. Law enforcement officials and restaurant associations generally provide much of the opposition. But it also looks to be one of those quintessential issues that break along rural and suburban lines — a test of the state's new political climate.

Gun advocates refer to it as "Luby's Law," named after the 1991 incident in which an unemployed merchant seaman drove his pickup truck into a Luby's cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, leaped out and opened fire. He killed 23 people and wounded more than 20 before killing himself.

At least one restaurant customer had a handgun in a car, and a carrying permit. But Texas law barred concealed weapons in restaurants and other places that serve alcohol.

As contemplated in Georgia, the law would allow concealed weapons to be carried — by those with the proper permit — in restaurants and bars that derive 51 percent of their income from food service. One could pack heat in Applebee's, say, but not a disco.

But what is really galling is his reference to [un-named] Texas Congresswoman Susanna Hupp, who watched as her parents were gunned-down at that Luby's. He could at least of used her name and explained the circumstances.

And how the heck would anyone know the exact percentage of food-to-alcohol served at any dining establishment?

I don't know, just something about the way this story was phrased really bugged me. Maybe it's the implication that if a waitress complains about her tip, she'll face the barrel of a gun. Bias... it sucks and this article reeks of it.