feeling like a lawyer

[Texas_Blaze]

ever since i started the process of getting my chl i have been reading chp 9, chp 46. i have read and read and read some more while waiting for plastic. i have come to think that i wont know the law fully until i find myself in court. thats when it will be interpreted for me. that is so frustrating.actually i have thought about contacting the local DA office to answer some of my questions. dont know if they will though, and then you may get one that hates guns. i have a friends from high school that are now a dps trooper and assistant DA in central texas. but havent talked to them in a while. you can get all kinds of opinions from people, even people that reference the actual laws, even a lawyer (i have a brother that is one) but to know the law you will have to live it out. that is worrisome to me. the chl is not just using good judgement and proper response,seems like it is also being a lawyer. anyways, i just wanted to vent and maybe others think similar thoughts.

[jmra]

If you have questions about CHL law, the DA is the last place you want to go. The last time I saw someone do that he showed up to a meeting with regs he claimed supported his argument regarding CHL law. He had obtained them from the DA that morning. One look at the paperwork and I said "your absolutely right, six years ago". The regs he had been given were rescinded six years prior. I provided him a copy of the current regs.

[hillfighter]

I agree there is gray area but it didn't take me long to realize the things I want to do aren't in the gray area. They are either clearly spelled out as exceptions or clearly prohibited. I learned to stop worrying and live the CHL law.

If somebody wants to know if they can carry on the porch of an ice house or during high school football practice, or shoot someone stealing their garden hose, they need to make friends with the devil in the details. For the rest of us, where we can carry and when we can use deadly force seems pretty clear.

[Texas_Blaze]

Did you see the general discussion thread on "Teacher arrested....". Lots of response from people on the forum. Proves my point. does this or that cover her, yes,no, maybe. Lots of uncertainty, others seem to feel that they understand the law better. Maybe they do, but did the teacher?

I dont need the details because I want to get close to the edges. I need the details to stay away from the edges.

[JALLEN]

The laws are generally plain enough. It's applying the facts to those laws where things sometimes get murky.

This is why all those pesky rights we afford accuseds come into play, and are so critical. With most of the resources, and cards, in the prosecutors hands, it is absolutely vital that the community have the last word, so to speak. We lawyers endure professional training in the language of law, customs and practices in interpretation of the words and how those words have been applied in other situations and can urge certain results, certain applications of law to facts, etc but at the end of the day, it is the ordinary citizens on a jury who decide, in courtrooms all over each state, in trials each week, what those statutes mean, how those words on the page are applied to the facts shown by the evidence.