DocNTexas
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SA-TX wrote:
I totally agree about the inability of the judges, prosecutors, lawyers and even sometimes the LEO's to read plain English. I think they intentionally write some laws in hard to interpret language in order to allow for variable interpretations. I also think the laws are unfairly applied to the public while letting those charged with enforcing the laws on us go unpunished. A great example is the recent attempt to clarify or define, if you will, the traveling provision, which allows for the unlicensed carry of a handgun in a motor vehicle. After passing a relatively clear law, several DA'spublicly vowed to continue prosecuting people found to be carrying under the law, claiming that it still required one to prove it in court. Their actions were, in my opinion, abuse of power and a violation of the law, perpetrated on the innocent civilian population in order to illegally remove your rights by vowing to use their authority to falsely accuse you and cost you money to prove your innocence. Their idea was that the risk they posed would discourage people from exercising their right to do so. This is coercion through the illegal use of their power. As such, these prosecutors should have been prosecuted themselves for their actions, but were they? NO! Fortunately, the legislators remedied the problem in the next session with the rewrite, however, these same prosecutors are vowing to push for a reversal of this law next session.
My question is this. Where did these guysget the idea that their job was to write or influence legislation? A DA's job is to enforce the laws as written, no matter if they agree withthem of not. When it comes to changing legislation, they have no more right or authority then you or me and if they don't like a law and want to see it changes, they should use their own time and money to influence the legislators from their district as a citizen, not a DA.Furthermore, if they knowingly file false charges against someone simply because they do not like or agree with a particular law as it is written, they should face the courts just as we would. Unfortunately, this is not the case anduntil we can get it changed, wewill simply have to live it. I already have letters written to the various news agencies in the areas where these DA's reside addressing their misuse of power, use of taxpayer money to promote their own personal views and so forthand plan to send them prior to the start of the next legislative session. Hopefully it will make them think about the damage it could have on them come re-election time.
As you can tell from my previous post, Iactively support and work toward improvinggun and carrylaws on a regular basis. I am hoping for an all out push for both open carry and removal of restrictions on CCW next session. I have a daughter in college now and one of the greatest threats I see is the use of Muslim students to attack students on our campuses. Where better than to use active students that know the layout, have access to all areas and are known residents on campus. They know where and when to strike and can do it easily. Imagine an organized simultaneous attack on multiple campuses across the nation, how many fatalities could there be? The only protection would be armed students, so I am pushing for campus carry very hard. My daughter has been shooting her entire life and as soon as my daughter turned 21, I had her in a CHL class. She carries religiously and the only time she is without iswhile inclass.
According to Linda Tripp, the legislative Director for the TSRA, the TSRA president needs to hear this from as many people as possible in order to get it moved to the from of the TSRA's legislative agenda next session, so take the time to call and/or write him and ask that the TSRApush for open carryand removal of restrictions on CCWnext session. Also, if you are not a member of TSRA, please consider joining. Linda does a fantastic job for us here in Texas.
As pointed out before, while we may not agree on all the fine points, we definitely agree on the major ones, which works for me.
Take care and be safe,
Doc
SA-TX wrote:
I totally agree about the inability of the judges, prosecutors, lawyers and even sometimes the LEO's to read plain English. I think they intentionally write some laws in hard to interpret language in order to allow for variable interpretations. I also think the laws are unfairly applied to the public while letting those charged with enforcing the laws on us go unpunished. A great example is the recent attempt to clarify or define, if you will, the traveling provision, which allows for the unlicensed carry of a handgun in a motor vehicle. After passing a relatively clear law, several DA'spublicly vowed to continue prosecuting people found to be carrying under the law, claiming that it still required one to prove it in court. Their actions were, in my opinion, abuse of power and a violation of the law, perpetrated on the innocent civilian population in order to illegally remove your rights by vowing to use their authority to falsely accuse you and cost you money to prove your innocence. Their idea was that the risk they posed would discourage people from exercising their right to do so. This is coercion through the illegal use of their power. As such, these prosecutors should have been prosecuted themselves for their actions, but were they? NO! Fortunately, the legislators remedied the problem in the next session with the rewrite, however, these same prosecutors are vowing to push for a reversal of this law next session.
My question is this. Where did these guysget the idea that their job was to write or influence legislation? A DA's job is to enforce the laws as written, no matter if they agree withthem of not. When it comes to changing legislation, they have no more right or authority then you or me and if they don't like a law and want to see it changes, they should use their own time and money to influence the legislators from their district as a citizen, not a DA.Furthermore, if they knowingly file false charges against someone simply because they do not like or agree with a particular law as it is written, they should face the courts just as we would. Unfortunately, this is not the case anduntil we can get it changed, wewill simply have to live it. I already have letters written to the various news agencies in the areas where these DA's reside addressing their misuse of power, use of taxpayer money to promote their own personal views and so forthand plan to send them prior to the start of the next legislative session. Hopefully it will make them think about the damage it could have on them come re-election time.
As you can tell from my previous post, Iactively support and work toward improvinggun and carrylaws on a regular basis. I am hoping for an all out push for both open carry and removal of restrictions on CCW next session. I have a daughter in college now and one of the greatest threats I see is the use of Muslim students to attack students on our campuses. Where better than to use active students that know the layout, have access to all areas and are known residents on campus. They know where and when to strike and can do it easily. Imagine an organized simultaneous attack on multiple campuses across the nation, how many fatalities could there be? The only protection would be armed students, so I am pushing for campus carry very hard. My daughter has been shooting her entire life and as soon as my daughter turned 21, I had her in a CHL class. She carries religiously and the only time she is without iswhile inclass.
According to Linda Tripp, the legislative Director for the TSRA, the TSRA president needs to hear this from as many people as possible in order to get it moved to the from of the TSRA's legislative agenda next session, so take the time to call and/or write him and ask that the TSRApush for open carryand removal of restrictions on CCWnext session. Also, if you are not a member of TSRA, please consider joining. Linda does a fantastic job for us here in Texas.
As pointed out before, while we may not agree on all the fine points, we definitely agree on the major ones, which works for me.
Take care and be safe,
Doc
