chabouk wrote:I think you're frustrated that she doesn't offer a more detailed plan for achieving those goals, but you explained yourself that the governor has no legislative power. So, any "plan" would be meaningless. The only way a governor can advance an agenda is through the bully pulpit and arm-twisting.
Again, she doesn't want to "eliminate the CHL law", she wants to eliminate the law that makes the CHL necessary. PC 46.02, the whole dang chapter, whatever: you would not be reduced to carrying only in your car.RPB wrote:"Eliminating a requirement to have a license in the first place because I believe we already have the right" is a nice goal, a good sounding declaration.
However, that goal will not be accomplished by her intended action to repeal the CHL laws. And Governors really don't legislate, and she doesn't seem to have a plan about how to alllow anyone to carry, other in their car, like she does. The law DOES allow me to carry in a grocery store, because I have a license to, and it's my impression that she stated she wants to repeal the CHL laws, invalidating the privldge (license is a priviledge) I earned and paid for that privledge to carry in a grocery store, she wants to repeal the CHL laws, so I can then carry only in my car, like she does??? I've been robbed twice, once by 2 guys with .38s, another time by 5 guys with 2 shotuns and 3 pistols, BOTH times were in a STORE, and neither time was in my CAR.
You, me, Medina, my neighbor without a CHL, my 19 and 20 year olds (who aren't yet eligible for a CHL), could all carry. In the car, to the store, in church, in college classes, etc. Without a license.
Yeah, I agree it's a neat idealistic dream, but I don't see that happening. What I see is people with an attitude last week saying they should ban guns around the Capital after last week's event. I don't see an attitude of OK, now EVERYONE carry, all adults carrying to schools where kids are, etc etc etc,, when the law that grants the priviledge to carry is repealed.
I can't see repealing whole chapters of the Penal code either, and though she doesn't legislate, she could have legal staff draft legislation for those who do.
It would take a lot of work revising the code, rather than just deleting or repealing...
I mean just deleting
42 would de;lete such things within the chapter like:
(a-1) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly carries on or about his or her person a handgun in a motor vehicle that is owned by the person or under the person's control at any time in which:
(1) the handgun is in plain view; or
(2) the person is:
(A) engaged in criminal activity, other than a Class C misdemeanor that is a violation of a law or ordinance regulating traffic;
(B) prohibited by law from possessing a firearm; or
(C) a member of a criminal street gang, as defined by Section 71.01.
Yes, it sounds great, allow people who are too young to legally even buy a new handgun in a store, to carry, because they have a right to. I just don't see repealing the CHL laws as a valid means to that end.
Perhaps she could instead ... repeal the Motorist Protection Act that allows her the right to carry in her car , then everyone could carry anywhere instead of just in cars, without a license. I mean, why Change anything pertaining to licensees if the goal is to allow everyone to carry, leave us alone, and expand the other peoples' rights to carry outside their car or anywhere if she wants to do that.
I'm proud of my license, leave it alone.
See my point? She just isn't making sense when you carry her plans to their logical conclusions considering the reality of the attitudes of general population of the people. I do like and agree with her stated goals or declarations, but her means to achieve those goals are questionable. Her goals are great ... I just don't see it happening. Not when TV news reporters are broadcasting about illegal aliens buying guns at gun shows etc.
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A bright yellow Texas Gun Shows sign hangs outside the entrance of the Crockett Center in the 10600 block of North Lamar where Austin police say at least eight felons and illegal immigrants have walked out with weapons in hand ....Some people would go to certain vendors, attempt to purchase a firearm, and if they were asked to fill out paperwork or do a background check they would bypass them and go to another vendor until they found one that didn't require a background check," said T.J. Vineyard, an investigator with the organized crime division .... The findings were the result of a year's worth of work between police, Federal Immigration, Customs, and Enforcement (ICE) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to target illegal gun trafficking.
You and I know the true "score"/situation on that above, private sales etc.... but I can't see people saying it's ok for your 18 and 19 year olds to carry without a license background check or papers saying they are mentally stable or whatever, when they, being under 21, and felons, and illegal aliens aren't even allowed to walk into a store and buy a gun, especially after last week's UNlicensed, legal gun owning 22 year old carried and discharged a gun at the Capital..... and ... I like her stated goals and declarations of our rights .. .. I just don't see it happening with today's attitudes and with the means she intends to use to achieve them.