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treadlightly wrote:
For the populace to be seeded with law-abiding armed citizens, some of us will need to actually be armed. I volunteer. Polite society needs to be unwelcoming to evil.

I like this statement a lot. Reminds me of my favorite Jefferson, et. al. quotes on gun rights -- as I would add "free law-abiding" to it.

JALLEN wrote: These days, educational institutions probably are closer to resembling zoos than most of us would be comfortable knowing.

(with images of Zookeeper running through my mind)

Charles L. Cotton wrote:"Educational institution" is not defined in Texas statues. There is something close and it does not help the zoo. I've already written a bench brief on this subject. This is going to cost the Houston Zoo a lot of money.

Chas.

That explains why I didn't see anything to define it in the rather lengthy Educational Code. Glad to hear that you're already on top of it - thanks for your efforts! Is a bench brief sort of like a friend of the court brief/filing? And is that something that once filed that can be shared here?

Glad to see that this was also picked up by someone else as overnight I was dealing with someone at home with the flu and only got to post briefly that I'd read this as the article came online.

I love the idea of the TABC investigation. I also think that there is an interesting angle to be explored with them working together to do this - wondering if anyone has explored yet the implications of claiming to be an educational institution and whether there are specific code requirements within the lengthy TX Educational Code of who can be one, how they are designated, and so on - especially for a local government (who I think would have to then have a zoo or museum operated under the control of their ISD to meet compliance requirements). And is falsely claiming to be an educational institution some form of fraud? And if doing so what crime is committed when they share strategy to commit that fraud. Meanwhile I sure wish that someone, somewhere, would get a response from the AG that fines are happening.