I'll see your bid and raise you.Soccerdad1995 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 12:01 pm
I'll take my chances on this and will carry where I am legally able to carry. Heck for a $200 potential fine, I might even act as my own attorney at the trial and question the shop owner on whether they are generally aware of laws that impact their business, or if they are in the normal practice of just "winging it" on legal requirements like they are claiming they did with their intent to prohibit all carry. Come to think of it, that might set the stage for a civil lawsuit against the business owner. After all, their lack of a reasonable effort to learn the law was directly responsible for me being dragged to criminal court in the first place.
1. I think that part of the reason that Constitutional Carry passed this past session was that the Liberals saw that they would have to spend way more political capital to fight it than it was worth, given the other priorities. It seems clear that they want to make sure that they can cheat at elections and want o focus there.
2. One of the reasons that we had such a hard time with Open Carry and Campus Carry was that there were Liberals running around, stirring up the public. There were Libs passing out signs when OC passed and while a lot of business owners put them up, many of taken them down. Even some of the 30.07 signs have disappeared from restaurants. I have no illusions about my showing up OC in one of those and being asked to cover up or leave but I've gotten really sloppy about concealment and as long as most of the holster is cover, I don't worry. No one has ever said a thing in one of those places. Absent the same kind of public lobbying with Con. Carry, most businesses and and ever larger segment of the public doesn't know that it passed and isn't aware of the pending implementation on September 1st. I predict that it will be like MPA. I don't see the Lamestream media diverting much of their attention to it and as long as that remains the case, It will remain unnoticed. There may be a fraction of an uptick in those carrying concealed but would wager that it is more like a relief to those that were already carrying without a license. I'm not saying that it will be incident free.
3.Within that context, the chances of something besides an extremely rare incident triggering action against an LTC are on par with getting hit by lighting twice. Stupid games still can win stupid prizes but the fact that we have such a outstanding history with the LTC community in Texas suggests that even bypassing a 30.06 sign because there is no 30.05 sign is not going to be a problem, concealed being concealed. My guess is that most retailers, even the woke ones are having trying keeping the lights on and are not going to pick fights unless there are extraordinary circumstances. Businesses haven't gotten more sophisticated regarding guns through the course of the pandemic.
4. Events over the past weekend which gained some publicity demonstrate that at least some of the big city police departments are out of control. All bets are off for what happens within those city limits. I was never a fan of Dallas to begin with and now will avoid stepping foot over its boundary unless there is absolutely no other choice and the circumstances are dire.