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- Introduced by Rep. Jim Slezak (D) on May 21, 2009, to exempt prosecuting attorneys and assistant prosecuting attorneys from the “gun-free zone” provisions of the concealed pistol permit law. These zones include schools, day care facilities, sports stadiums or arenas, bars, bar/restaurants, places of worship, college dorms and classrooms, hospitals, casinos, entertainment facilities that hold more than 2,500, and courts.
- Referred to the House Judiciary Committee on May 21, 2009.
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1) Re: 2009 House Bill 4982 (Exempt prosecuting attorneys from CPL “gun free zones” ) by C. Lee on May 28, 2009Like I saw here already, this is just creating another class of "US vs. THEM" citizenery. But then again, considering the Party affiliation of this sponsor, I would expect nothing less. With a very few exceptions Democrats of Today are not at all happy with the idea that the common citizen is allowed to own firearms, let alone carry them. As for this particular House Bill, I am not surprised. If I had to guess the reasoning would go something like this: "Prosecuting Attorneys being Officers of the Court need to be allowed to carry anywhere in order to protect themselves because they DO prosecute criminals, and are therefore targets of opportunity for the criminal element."
What we need is for this Bill to be shut down because it gives added benefits to someone based solely on their job title. I was for the waiving of the basic pistol safety requirement for certain Veterans and retired LEO's but that is because they already have that particular discipline of training. This bill does not reward someone for a specific skill set that they have, instead it rewards them just because they are or work for the County Prosecuting Attorney. I want to know what specifictraining they have that makes them safer than the rest of us to be allowed to carry in the "Free Crime Areas" also known as gun free zones.
Anyways that is just my little rant on this subject.
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Good point!
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They aren't getting rid of zones. They are exempting certain classes of people from the zones. Guess what! Everytime they do this, the class of people they exempt, are government types! Leaves us regular folk out in the cold.
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