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Lawyers Join Pilots, Seeking to Carry Guns and End Searches
Josey1
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Lawyers Join Pilots, Seeking to Carry Guns and End Searches http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/files/sep/30/arrc093001.htm Rex Curry, Attorney at Law 09.30.01Lawyers nationwide are joining the Air Line Pilots Association in pressing Congress to allow pilots to carry firearms in cockpits. Better still, lawyers are also pressing Congress and all state legislatures to allow lawyers to carry firearms in courthouses nationwide. In the proud tradition of pro bono publico, lawyers are joining with pilots in doing all they can to selflessly help protect others, especially during these times of need. Even before the WTC terrorism, many courthouses were like airports, and everyone who entered, including well-respected counsel, was treated like a criminal, subjected to metal detectors, emptied pockets, x-ray machines and shake-downs. Since the WTC terrorism, security at many courthouses is harsher, putting lawyers in the same predicament as pilots, and increasing everyone's danger of vulnerability and the lack of self-defense.Courthouses are every lawyer's place of business in the same way that planes are a pilot's place of business. Lawyers are "officers of the court." Many lawyers are licensed to carry concealed firearms, have training with firearms, and many have past military or law enforcement experience.Judges are lawyers who were elected or appointed, and at many courthouses judges are allowed to carry firearms, and many do.Popular objections to guns in planes do not apply to guns in courthouses. And unlike airplanes, courthouses always contain known criminals, even violent criminals, and that heightens the need for self-defense above that in airplanes. Some lawyers are also advocating a secondary position: that lawyers be permitted to use a separate entrance or to walk past courthouse search procedures (as do many prosecutors, public defenders, and courthouse personnel), even if lawyers are not allowed to carry firearms. It wasn't long ago that search procedures didn't exist at all - for anyone, lawyer or not. It is said that liberals love the 4th amendment and hate the 2nd, and conservatives love the 2nd amendment and hate the 4th. At airports and courthouses, public officials hate both. Now lawyers of all types can work together for both. Lawyers strive to be zealous advocates, yet this is one area where lawyers have shied away from zealous advocacy, even on their own behalf. All lawyers and lawyer's professional associations are asked to officially support the pilots and to join the fight (and contact elected representatives) to allow the carrying of firearms by pilots and lawyers, and to end lawyer searches. Contact the attorney below with news regarding all efforts.
(NATIONWIDE SURVEY: The following information is requested from lawyers (and anyone) across the country. Please send the information (with details) to the email address below:1. Are there any states (or subdivisions) where lawyers are not forced to submit to metal detectors and x-ray machines at courthouses?2. Are there any states (or subdivisions) where metal detectors and x-ray machines are not used on the general public at courthouses?3. Are there any states (or subdivisions) where it is legal for lawyers to carry firearms inside courthouses?4. Are there any states (or subdivisions) where it is legal for the general public to carry firearms inside courthouses?5. Are there any states (or subdivisions) where gun lockers are provided at or near the entrance to courthouses, so that lawyers (or the general public) who carry guns have a place to put them? Or where any other accommodations are made?6. Please provide information on previous efforts (or written articles) by lawyers or the general public regarding searches and 2nd and 4th amendment issues at courthouse entrances.)E. Rexwood CurryAttorney at LawP.O. Box 8816Tampa, FL 33674-8816(813) 238-5371ecurry@interaccess.net
(NATIONWIDE SURVEY: The following information is requested from lawyers (and anyone) across the country. Please send the information (with details) to the email address below:1. Are there any states (or subdivisions) where lawyers are not forced to submit to metal detectors and x-ray machines at courthouses?2. Are there any states (or subdivisions) where metal detectors and x-ray machines are not used on the general public at courthouses?3. Are there any states (or subdivisions) where it is legal for lawyers to carry firearms inside courthouses?4. Are there any states (or subdivisions) where it is legal for the general public to carry firearms inside courthouses?5. Are there any states (or subdivisions) where gun lockers are provided at or near the entrance to courthouses, so that lawyers (or the general public) who carry guns have a place to put them? Or where any other accommodations are made?6. Please provide information on previous efforts (or written articles) by lawyers or the general public regarding searches and 2nd and 4th amendment issues at courthouse entrances.)E. Rexwood CurryAttorney at LawP.O. Box 8816Tampa, FL 33674-8816(813) 238-5371ecurry@interaccess.net