Laws in search of a problem...

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Like many other places, Wisconsin is full of people who seem to demand laws that don't actually address a problem... There is a push for a state law requiring "Obsolute Sobriety" for bartenders while on duty. Have any of you been in a bar where the bartender was so drunk he couldn't do his job? Yeah, I didn't think so. The most rediculous part of this bill is the justification. The sponsors say that is will reduce drunk driving. We live in a state where you have to have 5 drunk driving convictions before they consider it a felony. If they want to reduce our drunk driving problem, how about considering it more than just a "Stupid mistake"? It seems to me that a drunk and disorderly bartender is something for the employer to take care of, not the state. Of course, to the "nanny staters" the government is the only one who should ever do anything about anything. Another one is... A 2nd Amendment Rights group held a picnic at a Green Bay public park. They exercised their right, and broke no laws when they carried pistols in holsters. No one was hurt, no one was threatened... in fact, no one did anything more than doing what Gov. Doyle encouraged us to do when he slapped his own holstered handgun and said, "we have no need for concealled carry. We have the right to carry openly, like I do". But, as you know, the nanny staters aren't going to sit by while someone else exercises their rights. No no no. That isn't who nanny staters are. They aren't happy unless they are using their rights to deny the rest of us of ours. A measure is being debated in Green Bay that would add public parks to schools and bars as places where you can't carry a gun... even after the Governor so plainly pointed out that open carry laws make it so we don't need concealled carry laws. Again, no laws were broken, no one was in ANY danger whatsoever, and all they were doing was exerice the right Gov. Doyle says he exercises himself. Yet another "law in search of a problem". Do you have such laws where you live? Laws that accomplish nothing, except stroking the over-bloated egos of blowhards and totalitarians?