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thetexan wrote:Jimlongley,

I knew what you meant. I meant that it is unlikely you would get caught if you are truely carrying concealed. And if you did get caught carrying the most they could do to you is ask you leave. I don't consider that being harassing.

My point is that I refuse to let them drive me off with a non-compliant notice. I would rather prove that I CAN indeed come in under those circumstances than to go somewhere else.


Tex

thetexan wrote:

jimlongley wrote:I have yet to see a PROPERLY posted movie theater. That said, I avoid those which are posted at all because that (improper) sign tells me that their intent is to harass me if I am found to be carrying, despite the letter of the law, and that they themselves are unwilling to comply with the letter of the law. I card them and go elsewhere, there are plenty of unposted theaters showing the same movies.

According to the letter of the law, the extent to which they could harass you, IF YOU WERE CAUGHT CARRYING AND HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?..would be to inform you and ask you to leave. Until they did their job and followed the law, I would carry there with no legal concern whatsoever. Giving a card and leaving is essentially bowing to their inappropriate 30.06 notification.

I am always amazed at how CHLers think they are going to make a statement and change the attitude of places like that. My job is not to change their mind. My desire is to see a movie with everyone else. My right is to do so with everyone else, and to be armed to protect myself and my family in the process of exercising that right. And it is my right to do so until, ACCORDING TO TEXAS LAW, they conform and comply with it to inform me properly according to it.

The best way to deal with those people is to simply ignore their non-compliant attempts to keep you from your Texas given right. We accomplish little or nothing by walking away, and leaving a silly card. They throw the card away and relish in the idea that they prevented another gun carrying fanatic from entering their property...AND DID SO WITHOUT EVEN HAVING TO COMPLY WITH THE 30.06 LAW!

My job is not to teach them a lesson. My job is to protect myself and my family in every single square inch of Texas earth I can LEGALLY DO SO. Withholding my little drop in the bucket in money gives me less satisfaction than knowing I am within my legal rights as I am enjoying the movie equiped to defend myself if needed.

tex