Scott Farkus wrote:Here's some more food for thought. For those that believe the rights of the property owners to be sacrosanct, how do you justify the parking lot bill? Haven't we already started down this path anyway?
One of my concerns is that we are going to wake up one day and essentially everything will be posted 30.06. At that point, we won't have the choice of avoiding Whole Foods because HEB is posted, too. I am concerned that this is going to be done through pressure brought to bear by insurance companies, who I fear will at some point start to require postings as a condition of insurance. I have no specific evidence of this yet, but I can easily see the anti's, particularly the financially connected Bloomberg types, convincing insurance executives that they face horrible risks from concealed carriers. As much as I favor open carry, I think it might add fuel to that fire, but that's another discussion.
The point is that the parking lot bill was needed, in part, because if you can't at least keep your gun in your car, you are effectively barred from carrying five days a week if your employer won't allow it at your job. If in the future every place you need to go to transact your daily business is posted, you are similarly effectively barred from carrying. We could get ahead of this if we started lobbying for businesses not to be allowed to prohibit licensed CHL holders.
Actually your concern is why we have 30.06. Before 30.06 gun buster signs were legal notice. Every store had a gun buster sign to the point the CHL program would have pretty much died. But we got 30.06 which saved CHL. I would love to see signs not have force of law, but I realize that is simply not on the table anytime soon in Texas.