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speedsix wrote:

johnson0317 wrote:It will get you a ride if the responding officer is not familiar enough with the law to understand that the sign was not valid. Neither of the hospitals I work at are correctly posted, but I have no doubt they think they are. Whether or not I can convince the responding officer to read the PC 30.06 off of my phone might spell the difference between taking the ride or not. Initially, it does not matter what you think is legal, it matters what the LEO thinks is legal, right or wrong. The court gets to sort out the details.



RJ

...even if you had a copy of the Texas Penal Code in your pocket...it's foolish to think they'd stop to read it for themselves...the answer for an officer who didn't know the law, but was willing to arrest me when I wasn't breaking it, would not be settled in criminal court...but in a civil suit...they've been used to inspire re-education of officers in jurisdictions all across the country...I wouldn't try to prove it to the officer who started to arrest me...but I'd tell him at this point, I'll settle for you taking the cuffs off and apologizing...if you take me to the station...I will file a suit...if that didn't make him call his supervisor(who is hopefully aware of the law)...let the chips fall where they may...we must know the details of the law...so must the one who accuses us of having broken it...

...in 99.9% of cases...if one is carrying concealed properly, the argument will never come up...I've carried since I was 14, and NOONE has ever spotted my CONCEALED handgun...