Gun Advocate Wants Bars To Serve Less Booze So Everyone Can Pack Heat

In a Monday appearance on "CNN Newsroom," gun rights activist Larry Pratt suggested that bars and nightclubs should serve patrons less alcohol so they can safely arm themselves in case of a mass shooting.

“Control the amount of booze you sell them, but don’t make them sitting ducks,” Pratt suggested to CNN’s Carol Costello.

When Costello reminded Pratt that the very reason people visit bars and nightclubs is, in fact, to drink, Pratt argued that it makes smart business sense for venues to create a safe environment for everyone's guns.

“It might hurt business, but don’t you think a mass murder hurts business?” he said.

Pratt went on to chide both Democratic and Republican lawmakers for “getting into the weeds” over whether Congress should ban people on terrorist watchlists from buying guns.

“We’re not going to make people safe by restricting access to guns," Pratt said. "You’ll impede it for the good guys."

Pratt is the executive director of Gun Owners of America, an extremist advocacy group that has criticized the National Rifle Association for being too willing to compromise.

Last week, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump also argued that more guns in nightlife establishments would be a good thing, suggesting that the June 12 massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, would have gone differently had more people there been armed.

“It’s too bad that some of the young people that were killed over the weekend didn’t have guns, you know, attached to their hips, frankly, and you know where bullets could have flown in the opposite direction,” he said.

Trump walked back his comments on Monday, saying that arming club-goers was "obviously" not what he meant.

H/T Mediaite