[marktwain]

“Too many people looking for their 15 minutes of fame would do what this guy did....he was being stubborn and unreasonable..... “

This was not a courthouse and Joel was well within his rights. Someone has to stand up to officials who will not obey the law. The problem is that it is very difficult to get the courts to hold judges accountable for their illegal acts.

[SeeSac]

This was not a courthouse and Joel was well within his rights. Someone has to stand up to officials who will not obey the law. The problem is that it is very difficult to get the courts to hold judges accountable for their illegal acts.

The problem is he was setting up a dangerous situation with someone (the guy with the badge) that is not is the position to interpret the judges order.

If the guy wanted to challenge the order, he could have set it up so as not to get tempers flared or have the situation get out of order. I give him two thumbs down for putting several people at risk with intentionally creating a confrontation between two armed people in a public area.

[goat granny]

As I said, I don't know how this will apply, especially to this case of the gentleman in the police station...The police did not try to take his gun away, just to lock it in his car...this to me is not unreasonable, but there are others that disagree...

I think that a no guns in the courthouse is not unreasonable, but as has been mentioned, outside of the courthouse, a judge is overstepping his bounds....That I agree with.

I know a man that was walking out of the court ROOM in a contentious divorce, the female tried to jump the man before he was out of the courtroom and his lawyer had to step up and stop her....emotions run too high in courts to allow anyone a gun. Innocent bystanders can get killed during a shoot out in a court...it has happened when one person was able to get a gun into the area... GG