Jusme wrote:Are courthouses, in their entirety, on the list of places that we plan on trying to remove from prohibited places?
All places that law enforcement officers are allowed to carry firearms should apply to LTC holders. The only places they have to disarm are secured portions of jails and prisons. Courthouses, including court rooms, even off duty, police can carry either openly or concealed. TABC 51% locations, LEOs can carry. Professional, collegiate, and high school sporting events are ok for LEOs. All Texas school district premises, on duty or off are ok for police to carry. There is no sound reason to restrict those of us with LTC from carrying in these locations also. We have proven ourselves to be even more law abiding than LEOs, and it is only the prevailing attitudes of those who think only the police should be armed, that have kept us from having that freedom. Of course that still only applies to LTC holders, and doesn't touch on Constitutional Carry.
I've wondered about the "courthouse" prohibition myself. I always figured it was either one of the many compromises that was needed to get concealed carry passed, or it had to do with guns being in the proximity of criminal defendants at trials or something.
Yes, it's time we got rid of all these off-limit locations. It's needlessly confusing and as we are seeing, even in Texas local governments can't be trusted not to abuse even minimal amounts of discretion in their efforts to thwart the clear will of the Legislature.