Hmmm. I see. So whatever a property owner intends is legally compliant? The Texas Legislature seems to have gone to a lot of trouble to carefully write laws but if I carefully read them and comply with them as written, it is a bad thing?CenTex wrote:I am sick and tired of people nitpicking 30.06 signs; If there is a 'NO GUNS' sign of any kind posted, it should be respected; you are putting your ego above personal or managed property rights...
The legality of the sign is another discussion.
Grow up!!!!
I understand this is a pervasive approach. The law makers put together a document called the Constitution and added a Bill of Rights to it. The government officials in IL and Chicago have been to court and lost several times because they wrote local laws that some people didn't believe complied with the original documents. Is that a bad thing, too?
There are a lot of people who have convictions for infractions of the laws overturned every year because of very technical interpretations of those laws. If a suspect's Miranda rights were not followed, for example, they get to walk away from the charges against them. While I believe that is often a bad thing, that is the way that the laws are written.
The rule of law is the rule of law. I'm not allowed, by law, to claim ignorance of the law as an excuse for breaking it, now matter how complex that law is. As a citizen, I'm the same as every other citizen or business. I ask for no quarter and I grant none. I see nothing childish about that approach.
My daughter, who is a police dispatcher, and I have had a discussion about some 30.06 signs (we both have CHLs). I've asked her what any of her LEOs would say if I told them "but Officer, I intended only to drive 60mpg on the freeway. I didn't really intend to do 75mph like I was doing."
I visited the Perot Museum recently. I very carefully looked for a 30.06 sign. I didn't see it. Apparently, based on the feed back on this thread, others did the same. It would appear that the idea behind
(c) is displayed in a conspicuous manner clearly visible to the public
is to make sure that I and others like me can see it and act accordingly. AMC uses an 8 1/2"x11" piece of paper for their sign. Since I'm looking for something with 1" letters per the TPC, I'm not even going to notice a piece of paper. I know from experience that the proper wording of the 30.06 sign with which I'm required to comply cannot be written completely using 1" letters on such a small piece of paper. This isn't about me being childish but me knowing what I'm looking for and finding it...or not. The TPC does not require me to carefully examine every scrap of paper that a business puts up.
I take the law very seriously. I view it as a contract between me and my fellow citizen and the government that represents them. What is not expressly forbidden by law is available to me. I refuse to accept control by intent.