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To: Charles Martel

Spanish? No way! If someone cannot speak English, I don’t figure they are American-enough to be carrying a gun, definitely not CCW. Sorry, but I conclude that anyone speaking Spanish, Mexican Spanish, is illegal alien.


26 posted on 03/26/2017 9:16:50 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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28 posted on 03/26/2017 10:03:56 AM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: Reno89519; Chode
Spanish? No way! If someone cannot speak English, I don’t figure they are American-enough to be carrying a gun, definitely not CCW. Sorry, but I conclude that anyone speaking Spanish, Mexican Spanish, is illegal alien.

I happen to agree, but I have seen ads for CHL classes in Spanish (around Austin), though I can't find the source at the moment.

Here's one in Conroe (note the last sentence).

I think it invites trouble for someone possessing a CHL to have a poor command of the English language. Things could turn ugly for some guy who's carrying and can't explain the situation to law enforcement (if stopped). Communication is critical if he was ever in a situation where he may need to use a weapon.

Problem: some years ago, the Texas legislature revised the state Government Code, mandating that its agencies provide information on their websites in Spanish to assist residents who have limited English; so being helpful to non-English speaking residents now has legal precedent which can be used to compel such "helpfulness". More than a third of the residents in the state now speak Spanish, it is not clear how many of those individuals also speak English as well (to varying degrees).

I would suggest that Texas legislators first mandate that the 30.06 and 30.07 signs be displayed in Vietnamese, Chinese, Hindi, Korean and Tagalog (in addition to English and Spanish). That suggestion might cause enough of a backlash that the legislature goes the opposite direction and shuts down the non-English CHL instruction.

29 posted on 03/26/2017 2:19:41 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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