Like I posted in another thread, Perry and Medina are vehemently opposed (no minced words) to metal detectors in the capitol. Perry went as far as to say, "The concealed carry license offers all the security we need." or words to that effect. I couldn't believ a professional politician would be that straight forward.gemini wrote:Typical over-reaction to a isolated incident. Dewhurst and Straus are an embarrassment to manhood
and common sense. NO METAL DETECTORS.
The most practicle solution to this perceived "problem" is............... require ALL civilian employees working
in the State Capital to obtain their CHL.
Sounds like a plan.
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Re: anti-CHL editorial Austin Statesman 1-26-10
Are they planning on moving the detectors out onto the steps, the sidewalk? Sheeesh, this guy was outside.austinrealtor wrote:Austin Statesman editorial board 1-26-10 wrote:It's time for metal detectors at the Texas Capitol
Austin American Statesman
EDITORIAL BOARD
Updated: 8:54 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25, 2010
Published: 6:36 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25, 2010
It's time for a painful realization, one we fear is painfully overdue.
It's time to acknowledge the dangerous world in which we live, complete with the dangerous combination of too many guns in the hands of too many people who perceive too many motives to inflict harm on others.
It's time, sad to say, to require visitors to the Texas Capitol to pass through metal detectors. It became clear last Thursday when a man let loose with at least five gunshots after he exited the Capitol after a peculiar encounter with staffers in Houston Sen. Dan Patrick's office.
Fausto Cardenas is jailed on third-degree felony charges stemming from the unsettling incident in which nobody was hurt.
"Today, we got a warning shot — literally," Patrick, R-Houston, and a champion of gun owners' rights, said on the day of the shooting. "This could have been a tragedy."
