These are especially bad bills. Any law that creates two classes of people, one being elite government officials and the other mere peasants working to pay taxes to the state, is wrong. Police officers are no better than the citizens who pay their salaries. If police officers do not like the current ridiculous restrictions of a CWP, then let them work to get rid of those restrictions for all honest law abiding citizens, not just them. Any argument that it is important to have armed off duty and retired law enforcement officers everywhere in the community is made an even better argument when used to include all honest law abiding citizens because there are more of us than there are of them.
Bills are still in committee.
These bills would change the law from prohibiting weapons on your person around elementary and secondary schools to prohibiting weapons around elementary, secondary, and post secondary schools period. S208 deletes firearms from the list of prohibited weapons, but H3137 does not. These are bad bills because they further infringe our 2nd Am. rights and do nothing to improve safety. Bills are still in committee. Fleming S43 - Another trigger lock bill.