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Support of Parental Authority

Strengthening Families, Protecting Life and Promoting Health > Protecting Our Children > Support of Parental Authority
We support parental authority and the teaching of moral values in the home. We oppose school-based clinics and/or youth impact centers located at, sponsored by, or funded by any state agency or public school district, whether or not they dispense condoms and contraceptives or refer, aid, or advise minors to have abortions.
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This is redundant, outdated, and vague. Parental authority is covered elsewhere. Youth impact centers are part of a 1984 Dallas-area initiative; they appear to have gone away before 1995. It is unclear what "school-based clinics" means.

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Promoting Individual Freedom and Personal Safety > Individual Freedom > Right To Keep and Bear Arms
We support a fundamental right to bear arms. We oppose gun ownership monitoring and unusual taxation or regulation of guns and ammunition. We support stiff penalties for felonies committed with firearms. We believe the Texas Legislature should: - Allow concealed handgun license (CHL) holders to carry concealed weapons in colleges and universities. - Prevent employers from prohibiting CHL holders from storing their concealed handgun in their vehicle. - Protect property owners who allow concealed weapons from civil liability.We urge the Legislature and Congress to repeal all laws that infringe on the right to bear arms, and to reject any monitoring of gun ownership, and all excessive taxation or regulation of guns and ammunition. We support a ten-year minimum mandatory sentence without parole for felonies committed with firearms. Stiff penalties should be enacted for frivolous lawsuits against legitimate firearms manufacturers. All gun owners are responsible for safely storing and operating firearms. We believe the Legislature should enact legislation: allowing: Concealed Handgun License holders to carry concealed weapons on publicly owned institutions of learning; and, preventing employers from prohibiting Concealed Handgun License holders from storing their concealed handgun in their vehicle while on a company parking area, and removing civil liability from property owners who do not prevent Concealed Handgun License holders from carrying on their premises. We believe that FFL holders should be free from harassment, and license revocations and denials against firearm dealers based on violations consisting of largely inconsequential recordkeeping errors and encourages the ATF to consider lesser gradation of sanctions for such errors.
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Frivolous lawsuits are a general tort reform measure and do not belong here. That notwithstanding, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act was signed by President Bush in 2005.

"All gun owners are responsible for safely storing and operating firearms." This is a common sense, obvious statement that does not belong in a platform.

The idea that a person should be free from harrassment and not inundated by red tape is a general issue of proper governance and is not unique to firearms-related issues.

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