The National Rifle Association On Guns In Outback Steak House
BY Herschel Smith
6 years, 10 months ago
NRA:
There is a general consensus that uniformed and ununiformed current and former law enforcement officers should be allowed to carry a firearm for the public benefit. That is why in 2004 Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed the Law Enforcement Officer’s Safety Act (LEOSA). Under LEOSA, current and former law enforcement officers who meet certain basic criteria, such as carrying qualified identification, are permitted to carry a firearm throughout the country.
Showing the strong bipartisan support for this measure, the original legislation, H.R. 218, had 297 co-sponsors in the House of Representative and passed the Senate unanimously. Subsequent changes that have been made to increase the number of officers able to take advantage of this protection have been similarly popular.
I’m not sure where this “general consensus” comes from, but I’ll bet it’s not among my readers. In other news, a SAPD officer just about killed a colleague.
A San Antonio Police Department officer was suspended for three days without pay after he accidentally fired his personal AR-15 inside a police station and injured another officer, according to police records.
Officer Jordan Ramirez accidentally fired a round from his AR-15 on Nov. 1 inside the SAPD Street Crimes Unit office, according to suspension records obtained by mySA.com.
Other people were inside the office with him and a bullet fragment or flying debris hit an officer, causing minor injuries.
Gosh I do hate it when that happens to me. But leave it to the NRA to miss the opportunity to make the point that this has nothing whatsoever to do with LEOs and everything to do with the policy itself.
On February 12, 2018 at 4:03 pm, ExpatNJ said:
“There is a general consensus that ALL PEACEFUL PEOPLE should be allowed to carry a firearm for the public benefit.”
There, fixed it for ’em. I welcome other linguistic suggestions.
On February 12, 2018 at 4:21 pm, Bill Robbins said:
General consensus is not relevant. If it’s the law, it’s the law.
On February 12, 2018 at 6:45 pm, Nicholas Digger, Sr. said:
To believe that the NRA is a champion of American’s gun rights is to believe that the American Cancer Society is performing research on finding a cure.
On February 16, 2018 at 1:42 pm, Jack Crabb said:
Pigs and their copsucking brethren can all go find a creative use for a rusty chainsaw.