Please don't take this as a personal attack. I mean it as a serious question about what you believed then vs. how you feel now.dac1842 wrote:The US Constitution gave us the right to bear arms. The intent of the Second Amendment was to give the citizens the right to own weapons.
I know this, because back then I put a few folks in jail for it. Usually there was another charge that accompanied it since you would not normally see the weapon until the violator was detained for something else.
Today in Texas that has all changed. It is legal, even without a CHL to carry in your car.
Assuming you didn't do anything else illegal with it, why was carrying a weapon in 1987 wrong? Although legal and illegal can change at the whim of some idiots in Austin, right and wrong don't change. So admit that as a police officer you put people in jail for something that is now OK. If it is now OK, then it must have always been OK, just illegal. Sort the opposite of like slavery, right? It was always wrong, but used to be legal. So you think as a cop, just doing your job, that it is OK to support and enforce morally wrong laws. Wow, that's the same argument torturers and war criminals use.
Deep in your heart, didn't you know that you were violating the 2nd amendment in the name of doing your job?