“County prosecutors, who try to send violent people to prison for a living, can’t carry a handgun anytime they are on the work clock.”
Texas has a CHL specifically for judges and prosecutors (I have one) that lets us carry anywhere, any time, under any circumstances.
I like it.
Anyone who knows me, knows that I advocate open-carry everywhere by anyone who is not a felon and is over age 18. I’d limit it to some people with misdemeanors, but only violent misdemeanors or drug/alcohol related.
EVERYWHERE ... an honest, upright, moral, virtuous Citizen isn’t going to use a handgun unless there’s a legal reason to do so.
If everyone who was eligible open-carried, violent acts would decrease dramatically. BUT WITH OPEN-CARRY MUST COME LAWS PROTECTING THOSE WHO USE THEIR GUNS AGAINST CRIMINALS. There ARE shootings which are justified ... and Justifiable Homicide must not be permitted to be prosecuted in Civil or any other Court by the PERPETRATOR or his/her family. But the perpetrator of a crime should be mandated to pay for any damages he/she has caused his/her victim.
And Moslem women would no longer be concerned with ‘honor-killings’ if they were armed.
This seems to me to be a “slippery slope” argument. If you allow prosecutors to be armed, pretty soon they will start tagging restroom stalls, staking claims on their ‘turf’ against armed gangs of defense attorneys, and selling drugs to support their gun habit.
The big contingency and divorce lawyers will get into the act, too, carrying high-powered assault rifles like AK-47s they can use for “waddle-by shootings”. Soon, “hired guns” will be brought in for expert testimony and quick draw gunfights.
The courtrooms will be littered with dead and dying lawyers, and...
Well, all things considered, this is probably a good idea.
Would it not be better to ask Why Not expand the exemption to city attorneys.
Is there some evidence to suggest that city attorneys are not trust worthy enough to carry a weapon on the job? Is a city attorney’s life less worthy of defending than a county prosecutor’s?
Regardless of the relative threat I believe that a city attorney is just as entitled to defend his life while on the job as any other officer of the court.
Would it not be better to ask Why Not expand the exemption to city attorneys.
Is there some evidence to suggest that city attorneys are not trust worthy enough to carry a weapon on the job? Is a city attorney’s life less worthy of defending than a county prosecutor’s?
Regardless of the relative threat I believe that a city attorney is just as entitled to defend his life while on the job as any other officer of the court.
Is there a prohibition in the law against public employees carrying, or are public employees not protected from punishment if they’re caught carrying? I work for the UofM, and although they pretend that they can ban guns on campus in reality (and this is just my understanding) they can only expel students violating the ban, and fire employees.