AHS Views

According to a recent news report in The Star about Shelby, North Carolina, law makers are considering allowing alcohol sales on the street. Apparently, you can only drink indoors in Shelby. Now they’re looking at restaurants and bars being able to serve alcohol outdoors. The news item reports the comments of several citizens. One of the said he didn’t see why it would be a problem because “vagrants do it all the time.”

I guess the that’s the point for those who disagree with drinking on the street - maybe they’d prefer to not have the townspeople acting like vagrants.

About 15 million people in the U.S. need alcohol rehab. But almost 98% of them never even try get addiction help because they don’t admit they have a problem. That opens the door to some pretty stupid, and potentially dangerous, things – like getting behind the wheel of your car. If being drunk isn’t a problem, why not drive?

Shelby doesn’t need more permissive alcohol laws – nor does anyplace else. Ask anyone who has a family member with a drinking problem. Anything that bumps up the potential for drinking and makes it even more attractive – like being able to sit outside on a summer evening and drink – will lead to an even greater need for addiction help services.