DallasCHL wrote:NcongruNt wrote:
It would be interesting to know what transpired in the decision-making process for the organizers to change their tune. I'd think most likely they had legal counsel warning them that they were gonna get the pants sued off of them. I'd like to think that there was some rational consideration of who their customers are - it is the TEXAS state fair, after all. Given the corporate nature of the fair organization, I think that's more likely wishful thinking on my part.
Do we really know that they changed their tune? The official website has said all along that CHL holders could carry at the fair, and that has been the policy since the changes to 30.06 were passed. Did anyone actually get a statement from Fair management that CHL holders would
not be allowed to carry? No offense intended to CHL/LEO, but I understand that he was repeating what he heard third-hand was Fair policy as stated by a DPD lawyer. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The time between the emails from Jim Dark was about two hours. That seems like a very short amount of time for such a policy to be summarily changed. I understand that when policies get passed on they can become confused, and I just don't want to beat up the Fair for an official policy that never was.
I suspect the "no-CHL" decision was made by someone other than the person at the highest administrative level, whatever that title may be. My guess would be someone in charge of security. When TSRA picked up CHL/LEO's post and put out an email blast and a press release, the phones started lighting up and someone higher up got involved. Since this was a last-minute change and the website had not been changed, the decision was to deny there was ever a decision to bar armed CHLs.
I have no inside information; this is just my take on the events and timing.
Chas.