Some of you are quick to declares this a capital offense, and that is NOT what I intended this discussion to turn into...I am not flaming anyone except Yankee (just because, I think he deserves to have his fanny well done...
)The original intent was to gauge and draw out mostly our LEO contigent here, and confirm the general concensus about how the Law Enforcement community treats the notification requirement on the street (real life), and that I believed it might be an interesting tweek on the law to remove the penalties for not notifying...
I do not believe there is a big enough bend on their side of the equation to continue this requirement...I believe I will notify out of courtesy,but if I feel it is not necessary to do so, I believe I, and many others do not wish to complicate matters if the situation does not warrant notification to Law Enforcement...
Again, I have said this many times in the past a well..."We are not the problem...We are the solution..."
As I believe that requirement was added to give another reason to revoke, or suspend a CHL on the slightest flub on our part, if we didn't notify properly and or at the onset of ANY encounter with Law Enforcement...This all began as a concession when the law was originally written and debated, just to get it passed and signed into law...One of many concessions, maybe just not the big enchilada at the time...
I believe (I'll say it again) that Texas has grown up a bit, gotten comfortable with this idea that some of it's citizens have taken the step up and qualified to carry under this provision in the law...
And since applications are up a tremendous amount over the last few years, most folks coming in from other states that have CCW license programs, and that have no duty to notify anyone for any reason, I see this issue coming up in conversations I have with the new folks in our state more and more...
This is just my opinion...