Bill to change CC regulations passes TX legislature

[csmsss]

Do you pay monetary fees for those freedoms? Not me. My point was if someone "offers" a service one does not necessarily have to accept it. I could possibly have found a NRA instructor for little or no cost had I been willing to spend the time and effort and probably some money to drive a farther distance than I did. I did not and do not consider it right to pay for a right.

It is not the instructors that should be considered the "vampires" but the state for requiring licensing and the $70 to $140 fee for the license. I have heard it said that "a free man doesn't need permission" which may be true ideologically, but there are certain realities in life such as taxes.

Perhaps I was not as explicit as I needed to be in my question. Please allow me to rephrase.

Should you, in order to exercise your fundamental 1st amendment rights, be required to obtain training (and certification thereof), and to that end pay what for some is a not-inconsiderable amount?

 

[Glenn E. Meyer]

1. This is a thread to discuss TX legislation and the philosophical bases of classes in general is off topic.

2. For legislative updates - https://www.texasfirearmscoalition.com/index.php/bill-status-report

www.texaschlforum.com has discussion of the issues.

 

[hermannr]

Glen

I was also thinking that not needing to renew with a class and shortening the classes will be a significant hit on the CHL instructors who focus on the CHL process for income.

There may be some people that think this, but consider: In WA state there is NO, none, zero, government mandated training...but there is enough demand that out-of-state instructors come to WA because there are not enough instructors here. (we also do not have a misused/accident problem)

Why you ask? Because if you make training a PERSONAL responsibility, people will do what is necessary for them to be personally responsible gun owners.