Tuesday, June 21, 2011

I Wonder ...

Gov. Rick Perry signed Senate Bill 321 (the one allowing people to keep guns locked in their cars in company parking lots) yesterday, how long will it take my employer to try and weasel out of compliance in some way? I'm confident that they will make the effort and that at least one of my fellow assailants of the bastions of Capitalism workers will not actually comply with the law as written in some obvious fashion giving the company all the "justification" it needs.

And maybe not; if we make it through September without incident everybody should adjust happily enough. I hope so.

In any case, well done to Rick Perry and those members of the states legislature who supported this effort. Now, about that idea to remove the word "concealed" from Texas' handgun legislation ...

2 comments:

seeker_two said...

Also important to remember that this law doesn't cover school employees and many state workers....because someone who's entrusted with the safety and education of our children isn't responsible enough to store a firearm properly.....

Will Brown said...

That must be true, for verily our putitative lords and masters have indeed so spake.

On a slightly more serious note, while the various school and oil industry (related) exceptions are spelled out in the law, as written it stipulates a CHL holder and not just a legal gun owner citizen per se. This particular income generating distinction isn't made explicitly clear enough in my opinion and I'm certain someone without the state's receipt is gonna find out the hard way in short order. Ditto, someone's gonna step out of his/her car before getting the gat out to lock it up. In a year or so this last won't be a cause for concern I suspect, but people who object to this law aren't going to be reasonable about this from the outset, I'm afraid.

By next summer guns locked in cars at work will have become normal, 'till then we'll all have to be hyper-punctilious about our conduct.