The Hired Help Doesn't Like It That Texas Civilians Can Protect Themselves Too..

Texas’ new gun law allows people to carry a loaded gun in their vehicle

"Law enforcement officers are worried about the consequences of the law that took place September 1st.

An approaching a car is an anxious moment for any police officer. Officers never know what awaits them.

"So when you get right here you're getting into a very small cone of fire."

It's one reason they practice their tactics.

Sgt. Dean Shows said, "If you get a shooting situation out in the field you're not just going stand there in front of a piece of paper and shoot. You're going have to move. Have to find some cover. You're going be getting shot at."

"We have to train to be ready to use it just in case everything goes wrong.," said Officer Jay Waggoner .

Sgt. Dean Shows oversees the Beaumont shooting range. He's concerned about a new law that allows un-licensed citizens to carry concealed weapons inside their cars.

"Pistol out of his glove compartment one night on Eastex. He was going for his insurance. First thing he came out with was a pistol," said Shows.

Shows remembers a traffic stop one night where he could have lost his life.

"My partner on the other side yelled gun. He didn't have a shot. I just reached in. Got some hair. He dropped it," he said.

The new law permits anyone who's allowed to own a gun to carry it inside their car, and it has to be hidden from sight.

"I don't like it for that reason. It's going to be many guns in the wrong hands. Not saying the gun owner is the wrong person. The guy that steals it is the wrong person," said Shows.

While some argue they have the right to protect themselves against bad guys, Sgt. Shows says you can't protect people from themselves.

"Granted it might save your life. It might take your life if somebody else has got it when you come back to your car," he said.

There are restrictions built into the law.

Convicted felons, gang members, those under court order or those with a history of family violence are not allowed to own firearms or carry them inside a vehicle."

Before the law took effect, criminals paid little attention and carried their guns wherever they damn well pleased. He or she was, and remains, armed and dangerous no matter what the frightened police have to say.

But now, they're afraid of the law abiding citizen as well. Lots of states allow car-carry without a permit, and to date there hasn't been even an inkling of blood running down the highways and byways of this great land, so what the cops are afraid of is beyond me. Afraid enough to yank on some unsuspecting, lawful individuals hair, from just the SIGHT of a gun being lawfully carried.

We hire the street cop to hand out speeding tickets and toss drunks in the slammer and by their very presence control crime. Thats why they like driving around in unmarked cars so much because they lose the deterrent capability but sure do write a helluva lot more speed-tax citations that way. We arm them, yes WE arm them from our tax dollars, because they have every right under the Constitution to protect themselves. The very same Constitution that includes US, the people, as having the right to bear arms.

They fight the carry laws, and are as anti-gun as any group you'll find, these servants of ours, and to make matters worse we ask them to swear to uphold the Constitution and as soon as they strap on THEIR protection they want us to leave ours at home.

In Texas, no less. Not California, or NYC, or Michigan, or Illinois, but Texas.

Damned shame is all I can say. Damned shame. They even pull the tired old, "criminals gonna take your gun and use it on ya" ploy to scare away the sheeple. Might be they have something there, so I'd offer that they step to the front of the line. lead by example, and leave THEIR guns at home as well.