Texas is allowing people with concealed weapon permits unfettered access to the State Capitol Building..without having to go through metal detectors.
Yes, you read that correctly.The very kind of people you might want to at least question, if not outright keep out of a public building...men and women with deadly weapons...are instead so welcomed... that according to this story...people in Texas are getting the permits just to avoid lines at the security checkpoints.
How long before legislation allowing the same policy here in Alabama gets the OK???
[NOTE: Senior Chief Managing Editor guy J.C. points out: have they forgotten? What if those old guys had been packing?]
Has this been forgotten already? Suppose those two old guys had been packing heat?
ReplyDeleteTried to upload the YouTube video of the famous Barron-Bishop slugfest, but it didn't work.
ReplyDeleteOutrageous - it boggles the mind - and I thought allowing a concealed weapon at public outdoor events was beyond the pale of civilized behavior!
ReplyDeleteWell now, fellers... I have a might dif'ern't opinion. Acknowledging that NO security system is perfect - public or private - and expressing confidence in my neighbors whom are employed performing such background investigatons to ensure only law-abiding citizens receive them, and in the spirit and intent of the law, simultaneously remembering also the DOJ research and statistics that unequivocally demonstrate that where Law-Abiding armed citizens carrying concealed firearms that violent crime drops... I'd say I'd be in favor of such. Those that are prone to hollerin' are a-hollerin'. Those who aren't aren't.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'd like to share this anecdotal observation: Yesterday, when entering and exiting county and city government offices yesterday in Rutherford County, TN, I was PLEASANTLY surprised to observe the absence of something I have come to abhor in AL - metal detectors. Treating a peaceful citizenry as they ought... with dignity, honor and respect, rather than a criminal element, or caged animal.