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Sage advice!drjoker wrote:
Unemployed crazy people have nothing to do all day long except for dreaming up creative ways to make your life miserable. Don't ever tick off unemployed crazy people.
This speaks exactly to what I wrote above. A simple phone call isn't going to cut the mustard. You have to be willing to put your own reputation on the line by sending a signed and notarized written communication to DPS. That way they will know who to come after if you are just trying to make trouble for somebody.Q: I know someone who I feel has a psychological problem and is unfit to carry any kind of firearm. He/she has appliced for a license. Who should I speak to about my concerns?
A: You may send a signed, notarized letter to DPS and officers will investigate the allegation.
I think that you have taken the high road on this one. Now you have available to you a wealth of knowledge on how to post a proper 30.06 sign on your front door, in contrasting block lettering at least 1 inch in height.snatchel wrote:I've made my decision on how to deal with it. Basically, I'm just going to leave it alone, and "tend to my garden," to quote Voltaire. I am very supportive of our constitutional right to keep and bear arms, but I also think that prudence should be used when issuing a license that would allow someone to carry in public. However, its not my decision to make. Though I'm intimately familiar with weapons, the use of weapons, and other like subjects, I am not a CHL instructor or state authority as far as that is concerned. Ill leave it alone and let it work itself out..
Skaven wrote:I think that you have taken the high road on this one. Now you have available to you a wealth of knowledge on how to post a proper 30.06 sign on your front door, in contrasting block lettering at least 1 inch in height.snatchel wrote:I've made my decision on how to deal with it. Basically, I'm just going to leave it alone, and "tend to my garden," to quote Voltaire. I am very supportive of our constitutional right to keep and bear arms, but I also think that prudence should be used when issuing a license that would allow someone to carry in public. However, its not my decision to make. Though I'm intimately familiar with weapons, the use of weapons, and other like subjects, I am not a CHL instructor or state authority as far as that is concerned. Ill leave it alone and let it work itself out..
Guess none of us are going over to snatchel's house to play cards or watch the game. I won't grace with my presence a place that seeks to disarm mesnatchel wrote:Skaven wrote:I think that you have taken the high road on this one. Now you have available to you a wealth of knowledge on how to post a proper 30.06 sign on your front door, in contrasting block lettering at least 1 inch in height.snatchel wrote:I've made my decision on how to deal with it. Basically, I'm just going to leave it alone, and "tend to my garden," to quote Voltaire. I am very supportive of our constitutional right to keep and bear arms, but I also think that prudence should be used when issuing a license that would allow someone to carry in public. However, its not my decision to make. Though I'm intimately familiar with weapons, the use of weapons, and other like subjects, I am not a CHL instructor or state authority as far as that is concerned. Ill leave it alone and let it work itself out..
LoL @ the 30.06 sign.
however, this part is what no Brady Buncher would ever have the common sense to say :snatchel wrote:I also think that prudence should be used when issuing a license that would allow someone to carry in public.
btw, snatchel, not intending to call you out in any way or labeling you "anti-gun"snatchel wrote:However, its not my decision to make.
Respectfully, I am going to disagree with chatting with DPS. It is DPS, FBI, and local law enforcement business to determine eligibility. Would you want some of your acquaintances going to DPS to discuss their opinion of your acceptability for a CHL? What about letting the Brady bunch tell DPS what they think? How are we any different from them if we start interjecting ourselves into someone else's processing?drjoker wrote:A Taser shoots a projectile. It's kinda like a gun. A stun gun needs contact to work. If she were firing a Taser at your wife, then you reacted fine. If she were firing a stun gun at your wife, then you may have overreacted, depending on the distance your aunt was from your wife and your aunt's demeanor at the time. Regardless, you should ban her from your home.gigag04 wrote:Cut your losses and run.
Also - was it a Taser or a stun gun? If it was a full blown Taser w/ a cartridge, Aunt K would have a broken arm and sprained wrist at best, had it been my face.
It wouldn't hurt to talk with the DPS. Be sure to have her name and birthday handy when chatting with the DPS or else they wouldn't be able to put your info with her file at the DPS because more than one applicant could possibly have the same name. Just telling the DPS that your aunt is crazy is worthless information to the DPS. Giving the DPS specific verifiable information and evidence is what you'll need to do. The DPS cannot take away someone's constitutional right to bear arms based on your conjecture. However, if you tell them that your aunt was institutionalized for schizophrenia against her will because she stabbed someone on a specific date, then that is valuable information to the DPS. The DPS could ask for her complete medical records dating from that period. The DPS could also request arrest records from the PD of the town she was arrested in. Small towns may not have all their older arrest records computerized, so your intel could possibly cause her application to be rejected. If she were truly stark raving mad, I don't think that she would be able to pass the written exam. If you live in a small town and there's only one CHL instructor in your town, then you should also talk with the instructor. Have the instructor keep an eye on her to make sure that she has proper muzzle control. The instructor has the power to fail her if he/she deems your aunt to be a danger. For example, the instructor has the power to flunk your aunt if he/she sees your aunt muzzle someone with her gun in class. Do all of this discreetly or else she'll come after you. Unemployed crazy people have nothing to do all day long except for dreaming up creative ways to make your life miserable. Don't ever tick off unemployed crazy people.
If she's sane enough to pass the written exam, act safely during her CHL class, and pass the increased scrutiny of the DPS after you've chatted with them about her, then relax. She may be more sane than you think.
Good luck,
It is generally considered poor form to Necropost a three year old thread when you are new to a forum.bluesea112 wrote:Even if your Aunt K is denied her CHL, it does not prevent her from carrying a handgun in her home, on her property, or in her vehicle. It sounds to me like you have a God complex and want to use the DPS to control your aunt based on your own personal opinion of her CHL eligibility. Mind your own business. According to what I just read, you are the one who should not be allowed to carry a gun. You are the type of person who overreacts to situations and ends up being an excuse for the anti gunners to march.
It appears he joined a few months before the thread began. Perhaps he's an extremely slow typist.Jumping Frog wrote:It is generally considered poor form to Necropost a three year old thread when you are new to a forum.