General Government

Re: 2009 House Bill 4982 (Exempt prosecuting attorneys from CPL “gun free zones” )

Craig — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:42:48 GMT

Like 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.

Re: 2009 House Bill 4982 (Exempt prosecuting attorneys from CPL “gun free zones” )

Leftsideslicer — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:40:13 GMT

Good point!

Re: 2009 House Bill 4982 (Exempt prosecuting attorneys from CPL “gun free zones” )

swallen — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:03:29 GMT

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.

Re: 2009 House Bill 4982 (Exempt prosecuting attorneys from CPL “gun free zones” )

Leftsideslicer — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:33:14 GMT

I agree...maybe they will have to get rid of the "Zones" on group at a time....but let's get rid of the Zones!

Re: 2009 House Bill 4982 (Exempt prosecuting attorneys from CPL “gun free zones” )

David Felbeck — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:23:06 GMT

We don't need yet another privileged elite class. The Legislature should simply abolish the prohibited zones for all CPL licensees. Our record is almost perfect as far as the complete absence of misuse of our licenses. After eight years and 190,000 licensees, how much more proof is needed?

Re: 2009 House Bill 4982 (Exempt prosecuting attorneys from CPL “gun free zones” )

Leftsideslicer — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:23:53 GMT

Hasn't that been done already by allowing judges and retired judges to carry in "gun free zones"

Re: 2009 House Bill 4982 (Exempt prosecuting attorneys from CPL “gun free zones” )

cjhsa — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:40:54 GMT

This would create a special class of citizen and is unconstitutional.

Re: 2009 House Bill 4982 (Exempt prosecuting attorneys from CPL “gun free zones” )

Cambeul41 — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:54:20 GMT

Is Slezak supporting the already proposed elimination of "gun free zones"?

2009 House Bill 4982 (Exempt prosecuting attorneys from CPL “gun free zones” )

admin — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT

Introduced in the House on May 21, 2009

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