However, as I was digging through some administrative rules on concealed carry around the nation, I ran across this from the Kansas attorney general:
The Concealed Carry Unit (Unit) of the Attorney General’s Office (AG) is tasked with the administration, interpretation and to a quasi degree, enforcement of the KPFPA. (Kansas Personal and Family Protection Act.)
How does a cop or prosecutor enforce a law to a "quasi" degree? That kind of language from people with the power to toss me in jail makes me think of Kafka's prisoner.
But maybe the law clerk who wrote it was just having a bad day. Or maybe it was a warning to other law enforcement agencies that they would have to do the heavy lifting. Still, quasi makes me queasy.
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*At least reasonable enough so long as we are stuck with the notion that it is okay to require a permit to exercise Constitutional rights.
The Concealed Carry Unit (Unit) of the Attorney General’s Office (AG) is tasked with the administration, interpretation and to a quasi degree, enforcement of the KPFPA. (Kansas Personal and Family Protection Act.)
How does a cop or prosecutor enforce a law to a "quasi" degree? That kind of language from people with the power to toss me in jail makes me think of Kafka's prisoner.
But maybe the law clerk who wrote it was just having a bad day. Or maybe it was a warning to other law enforcement agencies that they would have to do the heavy lifting. Still, quasi makes me queasy.
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*At least reasonable enough so long as we are stuck with the notion that it is okay to require a permit to exercise Constitutional rights.
1 comment:
I have been a resident of Kansas for eight years now. In that time, we have come a long way in our fight to restore gun rights. Concealed carry has gone from naughty to shall issue, we regained the right to own Class 3 firearms and in November our constitution will state that RKBA is an individual right. I would not be surprised to see Constitutional carry in the near future. Our new AG seems to be correct on gun rights. Maybe the fuzzy language is due to growing pains.
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