Just like these guys -- as perceived by liberals. :-)
Posted on 12/23/2012 6:51:33 AM PST by meatloaf
"She said the 2010 conceal-and-carry reform bill contained a provision stipulating federal law banning guns in school zones would supersede Kansas law. She wasn't aware Congress had adopted a school zone exemption to people possessing a valid state conceal-and-carry permit."
Many of the ISDs in Texas have their own police departments.
From the following:
This is a small isolated district.
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“These people that go in and do these horrible acts, they’re evil. But they’re not that crazy — they always know where they are going to get resistance,” Thweatt said.
Teachers and administrators here carry concealed handguns. They won’t say how many faculty members are armed. They get extra training, but the district would not give us details.
Some people are horrified when he starts talking about putting guns in schools with children, but Thweatt said it’s important to be safe.
“Sure, but it’s a pretty horrific thing that happened the other day.” Thweatt said. “And quite a few people are not horrified. Quite a few people we have in our district, since we have a high-transfer district, people bring their students to us for that protection.”
Texas law allows concealed weapons in schools with a district’s permission. Harrold was the first district to do it. A similar proposal was vetoed by Michigan’s governor Tuesday.
Thweatt says allowing the firearms into the school will dissuade anyone who wants to hurt the kids.
“That’s the bottom line,” he said.
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I grew up in true rural country. There was a clear difference between town and country. Just take a look at Hanover Michigan on a map and look up Hanover-Horton schools in the aerial photos. There’s no mistaking it there.
A lot of FReepers have an odd idea of what is rual in my opinion. To me, Littleton Colorado and Newtown Conn are urban.
So many gotchas that let the fed law skew the Texas law that I just try and steer clear of all things “school” .... Now that said the key IMHO to carry near or at a school is the definition of premises in the Texas state CHL law.
I can pull up to drop off my student, exit that vehicle armed with my CHL rig and walk up to the door of the school and allow my student to enter. But if I cross the transom of that door I have entered the premises versus just the property.
I am also not allowed to attend any sporting events outside .
Talking to ATF agents in the performance of my job they said state law and federal law does conflict. They know it and the state knows it. The ATF can arrest you for following Texas law. The 1000 foot, gun free BS still trumps Texas law last I worked as a reserve deputy a few years ago.
I live just 2 blocks from a school and was told by one ATF idiot that he as an agent could snag me for walking out of my dwelling to my vehicle in the driveway and leave ....”officially” by the letter of said federal law be in violation.
Gun law enforcement is so friggin messed up and compounded with different levels of city, county, state and federal amendments and such that one law abiding well meaning armed individual can be branded a felon at multiple levels on any given day.
Just my experience and experience as a Texan that is armed 24/7 when out and about. Just trying to follow laws that CAN NOT be followed or understood leaving me subject to the interpretation of the FLEA/LEO that stops me going to or from my home carrying my state issued CHL .
Stay Safe ...
VA allows ANYONE who is ‘eligible’ to carry in a vehicle, CCW or not.
VA
(vii) a person who has a valid concealed handgun permit and possesses a concealed handgun while in a motor vehicle in a parking lot, traffic circle, or other means of vehicular ingress or egress to the school. For the purposes of this paragraph, “weapon” includes a knife having a metal blade of three inches or longer and “closed container” includes a locked vehicle trunk
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Some of VA laws are ‘decent’ but somewhat cloudy.
I, as a permit holder, interpret this as saying if I am on School Property and leave my weapon secured in my vehicle it is ‘ok’.
(However when at a ball game etc I sometimes ‘forget’ to leave in vehicle...I personally believe it is ‘safer’ on my person as my vehicle is not always in sight...)
As to ‘vagueness’ this is for Church or Place of Worship
§ 18.2-283. Carrying dangerous weapon to place of religious worship.
If any person carry any gun, pistol, bowie knife, dagger or other dangerous weapon, without good and sufficient reason, to a place of worship while a meeting for religious purposes is being held at such place he shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.
***Guns are not allowed in federal buildings like Post Offices,***
I’m sure that if the post office in Edmonton Ok had had “NO GUNS” stickers on the doors the gunman would have said...”Well S#!t” and went elsewhere.
Just like these guys -- as perceived by liberals. :-)
I think all Post Offices do have posters or signs saying no guns. That is the point. Gun laws do not work and the US Government will not enforce gun laws against their own ATF when they get caught.
Federal law exempts CCW holders from the Federal Gun Free School Zones act.
It is then up to the individual states to decide if they will allow concealed or open carry on their school grounds.
After all of the flak over Michigan's proposed concealed carry on school grounds law was unceremoniously vetoed by Governor Snyder, this left existing law in effect.
In Michigan, if you are a CPL holder you may legally open carry on school grounds, and has been thus for many years. You cannot conceal carry on school grounds, however.
The Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 was originally passed as section 1702 of the Crime Control Act of 1990. It added 18 U.S.C. § 922(q); 18 U.S.C. § 922 itself was added by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.
The Supreme Court of the United States subsequently held that the Act was an unconstitutional exercise of Congressional authority under the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution in United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995). This was the first time in over half a century that the Supreme Court limited Congressional authority to legislate under the Commerce Clause.
Following the Lopez decision, President Clinton’s Attoney General Janet Reno proposed changes to 18 U.S.C. § 922(q) that were adopted (or “concealed” and “widely ignored” as one author put it) in section 657 of the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997, Pub.L. 104-208, 110 Stat. 3009, enacted September 30, 1996.[5] These minor changes required that the firearm in question “has moved in or otherwise affects interstate commerce”.[6]
As nearly all firearms have moved in Interstate Commerce at some point in their lives, critics assert this was merely a legislative tactic to circumvent the Supreme Court’s ruling.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-Free_School_Zones_Act_of_1990
We did the same thing here in Georgia during the early 80’s. I walked to school and would often carry my rifle and throw it in a buddies truck in the school parking lot before going to class. No one thought a thing of it.
One of my friends was one of the local rich kids. I remember standing in the principals office while he was showing the principal and a couple of teachers the beautiful .44 magnum revolver he had gotten for his birthday.
We were pretty tight with the vice principal anyway because he worked as a farm hand with us during the summer.
Years ago MAD magazine did a spoof on the movie BONNIE AND CLYDE, and how B & C would do it in foreign nations.
In Germany, they would have seen a sign on the door saying it was illegal to rob a bank, and would go elsewhere.
Not necessarily with the advent of 3-D printers.
Now you could print a gun in you home town and carry it to school and the gun would never cross state lines.
Take that Janet!
You might look in to it.
If things keep going the way they are, people are just going to say the hell with it - I’ll do as I please and risk the consequences. They don’t have enough jails for all of us.
I will check into it, thanks
Agree 100% ..... Same thoughts.
Stay safe .... Merry Christmas Sir !
I’m seeing people balk at the cost of the NRA proposal.
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Cost?????????? That can easily be covered by taking the money spent on the security for politicians and instead spending it on protecting the children.
Start with Diane Fienstein, and the other Libs/gungrabbers - let them be in a gun free zone, since they think that is the solution to gun violence. Let them prove it.
Number one: just don’t miss.
Number 2: use ammo that stays in the body instead of going straight through.
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