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I drink and I am against it. We do not need this.

Ruh roh. The world will come to an end.

The package stores complaining, can just, you know, not be open on Sunday if they don't want to be.

I hope it does not pass.

Liquor stores should be able to have whatever hours they choose. People should be able to own more than one liquor store. Liquor stores should be able to source stock from wherever they like. This not complicated. It's the same way we sell clothes, hammers, cheeseburgers, beer, and cigarettes.

oh man the drunkards already have a solution and thats to just buy an extra bottle for sunday.

Hell, many liquor stores are about to stop all sales Monday through Saturday because of the ABC warehouse fiasco.

they sell liqour 24/7 at 7-11 where I live.

I do not want liquor sales on Sundays. No one cares what one voter wants. What does Dembert want? That will tell you what will happen.

Will this mean we could get Publix or Sprout’s Farmer’s Market in Mississippi? If so then get rid of the rule. If we are looking to police society in MS we could lead the way and ban all dispensaries in general. Eyesores wherever they build.

5:58 - A cheeseburger has never resulted in a single DUI fatality.

It's not such a big deal. No store is required to open when they don't want to and people who don't want to buy don't have to. If other stores can open on Sunday, why not? Really, why not?

Those liquor stores across the river from Vicksburg are rolling in the cash.

hell yeah legalize sunday sales.
that the only day i want it or need it.

Interesting that our State Representatives don’t have more important issues to spend their time, and our money on. I am not an alcohol drinker, and have nothing against it, but I believe if anyone cannot skip one day going to buy alcoholic beverages, they have a serious problem.

This is the deal made with liquor stores to no longer block allowing mail order wine. Good luck getting them to ever allow wine sales in grocery stores. Mississippi has a strong liquor store lobby group. Legislators cower to them.

How far we have fallen….

limited government and freedom...except when some willing buyers and willing sellings may chose to lawfully do business on sunday then we should prohibit such conduct

Why are you against it? Shouldn’t people be allowed to buy it when they want too?

Closing liquor stores on Sunday will not keep people from drinking. Yes they could but it on Saturday instead of Sunday but either way they will still get drunk on Sunday

Then close liquor stores on Monday and let them open on Sunday Why close them on Sunday

I don’t drink but banning liquor sales on Sunday is just stupid. It’s not going to keep people from drinking. What’s so special about Sunday anyway

Delbert is a RINO! There’s nothing wrong about buying liquor on Sunday

I don’t drink but we don’t need the Baptist telling us when we can drink

Old man who owns a few beer and tobacco stores closes them at 9:00. When I asked him why he doesn't stay open later to compete with the c-stores, he said "if folks ain't bought their beer by 9:00, they don't need it."

Same applies to liquor stores on Sunday. Don't add to your overhead.

Bingo!

anything for a buck!

Y’all are getting worked up for nothing. Like so many things, the deal was made a long time ago for one chamber to pass it and the other to tank it. “We tried”

I thought this was a conservative free market state. If a store wants to be open, their choice. Chuck Fil A chooses to close Sunday. What’s next-a law making them open Sunday?

Small ones will. Big ones won’t.

I believe this idea is more in line with increased revenue than anything else. If someone wants to drink on Sunday, buy it all on Monday-Saturday, simple solution.

What's the difference between a Baptist and a Methodist?
A Methodist will say, "Hello!" to you at the Liquor Store....especially on a Sunday.

Mississippi Baptists wanna live in the stone age with the rattlesnake preachers in order to perpetuate their own insecurities and fragilities onto others in the form of shame, guilt, and a need to control others.

Alcohol - the most deadly drug in the US

But it’s Sunday, the Lord’s day. But DUI. But it’s freedom. But it’s no different than cheeseburgers and hammer. But people want to buy it. But people want to sell it. But it’s just another purchase. But, but, but.

In the end, all those are bullshit. It’s money. If there’s money in it, the Legislature will pass the measure. They may have to promise the voters that proceeds from Sunday sales will go in the education fund, though, like they did for gamb — excuse me — for “gaming.”

No big deal. Couldn’t people stock up on Saturday so they can survive a Sunday?

IMHO most would just as quickly take a bribe for a vote.

Sabbath is sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. Always has been. Early Christians followed this as well. For some reason Catholics just adopted some pagan tradition of calling Sunday the Sabbath and it stuck.

FYI if you can’t go one day without drinking your poison then you might have a problem!

"Mississippi Baptists wanna live in the stone age with the rattlesnake preachers"

You don't have a clue, do you? I want you to get me the name of those Mississippi snake handling baptist.

Real alcoholics don't need Sunday liquor sales, we plan well enough on Saturdays.

*disclaimer: I'm coming up on 2 years sober so I kinda have an insider's opinion

no one loves to block the free flow of commerce like snake handling religion wack jobs.
the religious wakos want everyone else to be just as wacked out as they are.
god must love those types cause he makes so many of them.

I’m old enough to remember when most establishments were closed on Sundays. I remember the debates and the “oh clutch my pearls” folk who eventually became and still are Sunday shoppers. Many states have Sunday liquor sales. Bottom line is just because it’s open doesn’t mean you have to shop.

I have not been in a liquor store since Christmas so I don't personally care, but less government regulation is always a good thing.

I hope it passes. Then I hope municipalities allow it. Stores then have the OPTION to open if they want to. Just another area the government can get out of the way. ALSO, liquor stores should be allowed to stay open past 8:00 PM! (Brandons stupid rule).

Never take a Baptist fishing. He will drink all your beer. Take two Baptists. They won't drink in front of each other.

So true it sours my stomach.

Are you the same ignorant poster from earlier that fellowship's with the snake handling baptist? Point out those snake handling preachers that are blocking the free flow of commerce. By the way, I handle snakes, matter of fact I'm handling one now. Have you ever bit anyone?

11:56: You are shaking hands with a lawyer?

Reading this blog is always a great reminder of why I moved to Florida 24 years ago. I can't believe people in MS still have the government telling them when they can buy alcohol. It kind of reminds me of the COVID lockdowns / hysteria in MS as compared to the free state of Florida. I usually do my grocery shopping for the week on Sunday afternoons, and if I'm out of beer, I buy beer. It doesn't mean I'm going to drink it that day. It sure is nice to have freedom here in Florida.

Possibly, that "less government regulation" would be OK, where alcohol is concerned, IF government also stayed out of the way, where victims of drunks (and/or the families of victims) were concerned. Currently, victims and their families are not allowed to (outside the legal system) exact revenge and extract restitution from drunk drivers and drunken assailants.

For example, victims' families are not allowed to seize drunks, sober-them-up in confinement, then sell their organs, in hopes of being "made whole", following an horrific drunk driving incident.

Victims are not allowed (outside the legal system) to seize drunks' possessions. I could go on: however, under our current legal system, nothing I could suggest, is legal.

Since victims are constrained from exacting restitution and revenge, without government's interference, it is only fair that government should limit the extent of drunkenness.

Setting hours for the sale of alcoholic beverages, is a reasonable and proven method of reducing the damage caused by drunks.

Pagan tradition? For some strange reason? Christ rose from the dead on Sunday, dude. That’s also why we celebrate Easter Sunday. Are you a Catholic hating 7th Day Adventist?

Oh, ye holier than thou. Maybe there’s a Sunday here and there that I want to make a wine sauce with supper, or maybe some special occasion pops up, and would like to have a bottle of wine, but low and behold it’s Sunday. I bet your church uses grape juice, that was donated because it was expired, instead of real communion wine as prescribed by scriptures.

So DUI fatalities on Sunday are worse than Saturday night DUI fatalities? Since you handpicked cheeseburgers from the list, what about beer? Are Sunday beer DUI fatalities more acceptable than Sunday Jack Daniels DUI fatalities?

@11:14
growing up baptist, I always heard that joke using mormons. Coming from my baptist realitives while they were fishing and drinking beer

It's optional. I figure the ones paying said overhead are best to make the decision if they want to pay that overhead. You want to be the overhead czar?

May I see the link/data that specifically states that limiting the sale of alcohol to 6 days a week (and excluding sunday sales) is reducing the damage caused by drunks in Mississippi 12:36?

If you're against buying alcohol on Sundays, don't go shopping on a Sunday. Simple.

10:20, you really sound like a whacked out liberals. Maybe you have snakes all around you?

What you should know is the difference in the wine served in the bible, and the wine sold by the state. These things are not the same.

Just for fun, why don't you give us the scriptures prescribing the wine as you put it?