TexasCHLforum.com

If we could get extended carry priveleges under the current system, I'd be all for it. But with the latest cluster of lawlessness & mass murder incidents, I'm skeptical that it would pass. The enhanced training provision would be a fall-back position that our allies in the state legislature could use to keep things moving in the right direction. It just seems to me that an all-or-nothing approach gets us mostly nothing.

I'd like to see a licensing provision that allows for reduced restrictions on where a CHL holder could carry based on increased training. For instance, get a basic CHL with the current 10hr course or get an enhanced CHL with the current 10hr course plus additional traing such as the NRA Personal Protection series. Several of the bigger indoor ranges around Houston already offer advanced training for just a little more than the CHL course. It probably wouldn't take much to tweak those into an enhanced licensing requirement.

But regardless of how it's done, the arming of school personel is still a last-ditch-effort at reducing the intended effect of the next psychotic murderer out there. And it should only be done on a voluntary basis as an addition to the professional & armed staff that need to be in place first along with making the schools harder targets.

Edited to include: The enhanced CHL would allow concealed carry by CHL holder almost everywhere an on-duty LEO could carry (minus bars & 30.06 posted businesses).