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To: dayglored

Don’t conflate concealed carry laws with trespassing laws. They are very different and carry very different penalties. Noone in Texas is proposing a repeal of any trespass laws. I think everyone agrees with you that business owners have the right have rules about what’s allowed on their property and to kick people out for not following those rules. Noone wants to change that. The proposed change relates only to carry laws, not trespass laws. If this change goes into effect businesses can still make any rule they want (including rules about carrying guns) and kick out and refuse service to people who don’t follow those rules. The question here is whether the government should imprison people for years for carrying a gun.


134 posted on 05/01/2007 9:56:26 PM PDT by Old Dirty Bastiat
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To: Old Dirty Bastiat
> The question here is whether the government should imprison people for years for carrying a gun.

That's easy. HELL NO!

My RKBA is clear and guaranteed by the Constitution. As I've stated elsewhere in this thread, I believe an armed society is a polite society and I like people who are polite.

I may (and I believe, should) choose to exercise restraint with regard to carrying, and respect a business' rules about what I carry into their shop or club and under what conditions. I may also choose to take my patronage elsewhere where my gun is welcome.

But if I break those rules, I should only be told to leave, just as if I wore an obscene t-shirt or didn't have shoes on. Just because it's a gun shouldn't earn me any greater penalty.

And for simply having a gun on my person, in public, there should be no penalty whatsoever, as long as I'm acting within legal bounds and not making trouble.

I'll even go so far as to not charge the government for my services as a keeper of the peace, since I'm doing it on essentially a volunteer basis. (Only half joking...)

135 posted on 05/01/2007 10:26:39 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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