TC-TX: I had, and have, no intention of insulting you or anyone else here on The High Road, and I apologize if I have unknowingly done so. We happen to have a difference of opinion on a matter of great importance to our Texas members, and I expressed my opinion, as you expressed yours. Certainly you cannot accuse me of arrogantly saying that "I am right." My intention was quite the opposite -- it was to stress the point that perhaps we do not know what is right, and we perhaps should be careful of what we gamble in asserting our rectitude.
May I offer a palm branch?
We can find very little formal guidance about our issues from the highest levels in this great state of Texas. There are good reasons for that which we need not go into. Occasionally a court will issue an opinion which helps. Occasionally the DPS or other agency will issue an opinion which helps. Together they are few and far between.
We have been given a little help by our then-Attorney General, John Cornyn, who is now one of Texas's two United States Senators. Six years ago he issued a formal opinion which addressed one of the many issues having to do with our state's concealed handgun laws. Ironically enough, his opinion was issued in response to a question he was asked by a member of the state legislature which enacted the legislation. This might help point out how "clear" the law is.
To avoid unnecessarily and inordinately lengthening this post I have attached the AG's Opinion,
View attachment 51142, which you may read at your leisure. While the AG addresses a specific question which is, at least so far, foreign to this thread, it does shed a great deal of light on one issue we have discussed here: the various ways of providing effective notice pursuant to Section 30.06.
In general, however, the AG's Opinion does address a point we have discussed here. The AG's Opinion is just that, an
opinion. The AG does not venture to tell us
what the law is -- he just tells us
his opinion as to what the law is. If there is any lawyer in the State of Texas who should be qualified to tell us
what the law is, it would be the Attorney General. But he refrains from doing so.
I think many of our Texican members might find it interesting to read the attached AG's Opinion. As I stated above, it is one of the few pieces of high-level advice we CHL-holders have available to us.
Enjoy California,
Jim