We need to do something about Gun Free Zones in America!
A manhunt was underway for two suspects after an assistant district attorney was gunned down Thursday outside a courthouse in North Texas.
Mark Hasse, 57, was walking from a parking lot toward the Kaufman County Courthouse annex when he was shot multiple times just before 9 a.m., Kaufman County sheriff’s department spokeswoman Pat Laney said.
Laney said late Thursday that no arrests had been made in the case….McLellan said the prosecutor had worked in a variety of areas including organized crime, knew the dangers of his job and readily accepted them. He was in Kaufman County three years.
Security officers and deputies closed nearby streets in Kaufman, a North Texas town of about 6,700 residents less than 40 miles from Dallas. Kaufman schools were put on lockdown.
Hasse’s death raises the larger issue of security for prosecutors who are responsible sending criminals to prison, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins said.
Watkins says he’s most concerned that people who are out on bail and awaiting trial will target him as the face of the office or his prosecutors.
“These are people who are on the front line,” said Watkins, who leads an office of 250 prosecutors. “Why isn’t there security? We have a lot of individuals who have ill will toward our profession. Maybe this unfortunate circumstance will provide a wakeup call for those individuals who do hold the purse strings to make sure we’re protected.”
Texas is a state that’s very Liberal on guns, but court houses are gun free zones, and while most have security stations where people can disarm, and re-arm, I wouldn’t be surprised if most court workers simply leave their gun at home, or locked in their car to avoid the hassle of dealing with security.
And honestly for what? Why is a lawful gun owner any more dangerous on the steps of the courthouse as in the court? Still lawful citizens walking out of the courthouse obviously are in VERY REAL danger.
