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Originally Posted by USMC_0311  If you ask me it is a terrible law. If you pass the background check and are issued a license the only place that should be banned are court houses and airports. They actually have checkpoints with scanners and such at these places. All I have to do to get into my sons school carrying is waive at the camera. If the background check is not good enough then make it stricter. |
I totally agree. If I did carry in my daughter's school there is nobody who would question me, I'm a common fixture inside the building as I've been on a couple of the school committees and been active in fund raising, athletic concessions, and school recruitment. So I could walk in anytime, walk right up to the principle or several of the board members and they'd never suspect that I was armed, nor would they have any fear of me. And certainly they wouldn't need to be afraid because I'm there for positive reasons, in addition to being there for my daughter.
But is a law on the books in Indianapolis really going to deter a bad guy who would also just as easily be able to walk into the school? OF COURSE NOT!!!
So what the law does is, if we choose to follow it (as I do), is it forces me to park off the school grounds, disarm, and leave a gun unattended in my car where it can be stolen. Wouldn't everyone be a bit more secure if the gun was safely stuck on my hip where it belongs?
I can't understand why I am forbidden from getting out of my car to help my daughter into the car on rainy days, or to help her carry a school project, etc. If they want me to keep the gun OUTSIDE the school then at least let me park ON school property when I lock the gun in my car!!!