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If we are just thinking up hypotheticals, what about the scenario where someone doesn't carry because they drink one beer and are assaulted and killed when carrying a firearm could have saved them. Is the off chance a single beer is going to cause you legal trouble in a good shoot scenario worth dying over? Don't drink and drive or fly or carry or whatever based on your own limits, whether those limits are based in law, morals, or physical. This isn't a one way or the highway situation, and if you think it is that's your right to think that, just as much as its my right to disagree. Without case law showing a clear consequence of carrying after having a single beer, how can you say definatively one way or the other? I can't, I just know what I feel is right and wrong. Each person needs to make this determination for themselves. I'm not defending either position, just stating mine.

No one is arguing there aren't a bunch of idiots in this world. We wouldn't have so many great, "here hold my beer" videos if there weren't.

Did I ever say I was then continuing to drive? No I didn't. Using your logic that a person can't have even the means to access the firearm when drinking would mean no one with a firearm in their home could ever drink. Let's think about this.

I treat it just like driving while consuming alcoholic beverages. If I wouldn't feel comfortable driving, even if legally allowed, I don't carry. I know I'm fine to drive after a beer or two with dinner, and I also know one margarita can be enough for me to feel it. If I start with a beer and want something more, I'll walk it out to the car. I've done many times, a drink or two friends can easily become more so I just excuse myself and lock it in the glove box. This is very subjective and up to the individual to determine what they feel comfortable with. Know the law as stated above and make your own decision how to proceed.