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iflyabeech wrote:Here is a sign posted at our county building in Robstown. I think they sometimes hold JP court there! I took the pic just a few weeks ago, sorry about the quality.

I don't believe that sign is referencing the appropriate statute. I also understand that the legislature intentionally changed the wording of the statute to be only the portion of the building in question - specifically to get around entire buildings being off limits because court is sometimes held there. Now you can carry there legally, except for the portion of the building being used for court (probably nothing most of the time based on what you say).

txinvestigator wrote:

barres wrote:

Photoman wrote:Why should a law abiding citizen with a CHL not be allowed to carry in a courtroom?

For the same reason he/she should not be allowed to carry in a prison. Should he become incapacitated for any reason, his weapon would be available to all sorts of people who society would rather not have access to weapons. Courtrooms are frequently visited by felons or soon-to-be-felons.

No, it is because courtrooms are often charged with emotion, and people's lives are often changed dramatically in courtrooms. After several high profile shootings by people subject to the orders of the courts (mostly civil courts) these laws were passed.

So we CHL holders automatically become unable to control ourselves emotionally when we are in a courtroom? Sorry, that argument doesn't work when you are talking about college campuses any better than it does in a court room.

Maybe if you were CHARGED with something and in a court room, but then you probably couldn't carry because of what you were charged with.