Finally Pennsylvania's citizens have the government-given right to buy wine and spirits seven days a week to counteract some supposed god-given mandate to keep Sunday "holy."

The truth is, if people previously wanted to drink on Sundays, they had six days to stock up. I'm sure it's a negligibly small portion of the drinking population that would take the new Sunday hours as an actual prompt to drink when they usually don't.

I've heard arguments that the Sunday hours cater to alcoholics. On the contrary, I claim that since these are people whose lives revolve around the drink, they are precisely the ones that made darn sure to buy enough on Saturday to last them.

At the very most, the new hours are great for regular families who decide to cook a nice Sunday dinner but don't happen to have a good bottle of cabernet on hand.

One protester said there will be "many more drunk drivers" now, too. The five Centre County liquor stores were previously open a combined 299.5 hours each week. Are an additional five hours really going to yield "many more" instances of drinking and driving?

Besides, bars are the more likely breeding grounds for D.U.I. offenses than state stores, and they're open on Sundays. To the protesters, if you're not a fan of buying and drinking alcohol on Sundays, all you have to do is stay home, not think about it and enjoy your own lives.