No, the difference is that you think you're not allowing criminals in your house.Right2Carry wrote:The differance is I don't allow criminals in my house, maybe you do, but I don't.KBCraig wrote:It's a shame that you can't distinguish that your plan has exactly the same effect, whether in a private residence or a public business: keeping out the law abiding, while doing nothing to deter criminals.
If you could overcome that, your argument might have merit. You can't, and it doesn't.
Scenario: You meet a repairman at the door, verbally inform him that he's not allowed to carry a concealed handgun, and ask him to sign a declaration to that effect.
Likely result: If he's a CHL, he's probably going to think, "Well, this guy is hinky as all Hades!" He'll head back to his truck, and keep going.
If he's not a CHL, and not a criminal, he'll shrug and think you're some anti-gun nut, and probably continue his job.
If he's an armed criminal, he'll laugh inwardly while signing your paperwork.
Make up your mind.It is not a business and that makes all the differance. Personally I know that the law does not distinguish between business and a private home.
No one has proposed taking that right away from you. You have every right to demand repairmen submit to a metal detector, strip search, and cavity search before entering your home.The fact is I can choose who I allow into my home and who I don't allow, that is my right and neither you or anyone else can take that right away from me.
Good luck with that.
Business owners have wide latitude to discriminate. There are certain protected classes they can't legally discriminate against, but they can legally discriminate against everyone else. No shirt? No service. No shoes? No service. No outside food or drink allowed. Wearing clothing the management considers inappropriate? Hit the road! Carrying a concealed handgun under the authority of Government Code chapter 411? You can't proceed past this PC 30.06 notice.A business owner may not discriminate, but a homeowner can discriminate who he or she allows in thier house without any repurcussions.
I assume everyone I meet, including complete strangers, are armed. You're assuming that your "checklist for repairmen" will magically assure that they're not.YOU may feel comfortable letting a complete stranger in your house with your love ones without knowing how the weapon is secured, what kind of training the individual has, or even if the gun is secured.
You seem to think that you can wave a wand and make your home a "Guns-free zone except for me and mine". The fact that it's your home, instead of a business open to the public, is irrelevant: "gun free" is, and will always be, a fiction.
Kevin
