Yeah. You would start trial with one footin the grave.
How can one argue that you found yourself in a situation where the use of deadly force was reasonably believed to be immediately necessary at a location where you where legally prohibited from be present?
Had you obeyed the law you would have never felt it immediately necessary to use a gun that you never should have had to defend yourself in a situation you never should have been in?
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- Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:02 pm
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: First Hand Police Officer(s) Opinion On CC
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- Sun Nov 06, 2016 1:10 pm
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: First Hand Police Officer(s) Opinion On CC
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Re: First Hand Police Officer(s) Opinion On CC
Two issues here and I'll preach them till I'm blue in the face.
1. The class c penalty for carrying past a sign, which to a lot of people seems like nothing and therefore are willing to take the chance rather than disarming.
2. The other and most important point, and the one most meaningful and potentially significant to the carrier, is the legal presumption of reasonable belief that you would otherwise be afforded but which you give away when you are involved in a shooting at a location where you are in the status of committing a crime by trespassing past a valid sign.
This could mean the difference between being exonerated at trial and being found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison for manslaughter because you were not able to defend yourself against the prosecutor's charge that your belief that deadly force was immediately necessary was not reasonable.
That's the main Reason you always stay legal. Always.
We're not playing a game of Monopoly here. These are real rules with real consequences and real prosecutors.
tex
1. The class c penalty for carrying past a sign, which to a lot of people seems like nothing and therefore are willing to take the chance rather than disarming.
2. The other and most important point, and the one most meaningful and potentially significant to the carrier, is the legal presumption of reasonable belief that you would otherwise be afforded but which you give away when you are involved in a shooting at a location where you are in the status of committing a crime by trespassing past a valid sign.
This could mean the difference between being exonerated at trial and being found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison for manslaughter because you were not able to defend yourself against the prosecutor's charge that your belief that deadly force was immediately necessary was not reasonable.
That's the main Reason you always stay legal. Always.
We're not playing a game of Monopoly here. These are real rules with real consequences and real prosecutors.
tex