Have a CHL? Skip the metal detectors in Austin

[Justin Holder]

Now if we could just get Open Carry passed.

 

[searcher451]

Bababooey: To better understand the reaction of city and county officials regarding this incident, some of the pertinent details of what this guy did in Salem might come into play. From one of the reports:

"Prior to damaging the courthouse, he fired a gun at a Keizer Police officer, lit fires to several cars in the police parking lot, and fired a gun at houses along the way to the courthouse."

I am neither defending the reactions of officialdom, nor am I making light of them; I'm merely trying to indicate that, given the times we live in, all bets at sanity seem to be off. Sorry if this has sidetracked the main discussion.

 

[Buck Snort]

BuckSnort wrote:


Well, you insinuate that letting CCW in the Texas capitol is somehow different from carrying in the streets. If you didn't mean that it would be more likely to result in a shooting, what DID you mean by this statement:

What I meant was that politicians are ignoramic dork heads and maybe it'd be just TOO MUCH for them to tolerate, having average everyday people pack'n heat in THEIR capitol building.

 

[TexasRifleman]

I've reread my post several times and I'll be damned if I can find where I made any such suggestion.

Clearly you find there is something special or different about the environment inside the state capital vs outside.

Letting folks carry guns around town is one thing, letting them pack heat inside the inner sanctum sanctorum of the state capitol, maybe that's a different matter altogether.

I'm not sure what else you could possibly mean by that.

What I meant was that politicians are ignoramic dork heads and maybe it'd be just TOO MUCH for them to tolerate, having average everyday people pack'n heat in THEIR capitol building.

It's already legal to do that and has been since the CHL program started. This is NOT a change in the law, simply the addition of metal detectors. There is nothing new for the politicians to "tolerate", it's been going on for many years. In fact, many of the sitting legislators voted for it.

All this article said was that people who have no intention of carrying a gun are applying for CHL's so they can get through the line faster, that's all. This is not about any change to the CHL program or state law. In fact it doesn't actually have anything to do with GUNS at all.