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I don't understand. If a bank is prone to hold ups then why would they want to endanger their law abiding customers lives by restricting them from protecting themselves against being murdered? I would never bank anywhere that doesn't understand the difference between an innocent person carrying a gun to save their own life and a criminal using a gun to harm others. Do they not understand the requirements and background checks we have to go thru in order to get a license to carry? Do they not understand that people have carried in every branch they have, just by the odds, and those good people never robbed the bank or harmed any person? I would point them here http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/administra ... sindex.htm as well as this very site to further their understanding on just who they are restricting with those signs. And let's face it, those signs only restrict the most law abiding and financially stable of our state. The criminals that have harassed that business did not obey the law and they certainly did not pay any mind to signs already posted. I am sure these new signs will do nothing more than encourage a criminal smart enough to know the law to choose that bank for their criminal activity.

I would write, paper and pen, the branch and the head of the bank. In fact, I did when my bank posted a non-compliant sign. I also had a letter to the editor published. I went in later to close my accounts and remind them why but the good people at the bank had apparently had time to review the law and understand that a CHL holder in a bank is a good thing. Not to stop a robbery necessarily. That is what insurance is for. But, not all robbers only want money. Some want to kill innocent people and that is where the CHL holder is valuable. They understand we don't want to shoot anybody because I told them. However, if it will save someone’s life, we will do what we are forced to do to stop that from happening.

When I wrote the bank I pointed out something they may not have known. That is that we are the grandmother and college kid and the grocer and even the preacher. They never saw us as armed but we have been there as long as it has been legal to carry and we never once did anything against the bank. I like my bank and even recommend it to anyone who is looking for a bank. It just took time and my effort for them to understand that I and my CHL friends are not the problem.