There is now a second bill, HB72 by McCormick: http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237495
Neither bill removes the carry permit as an option.
Neither bill removes the carry permit as an option.
Can we get some contact information for the representatives that we need to reach out to?
Let's just use this number as a ball park figure.
Take half, because I don't know how many of those people have lifetime permits or were issued permits free of charge.
100,000 permits at $125 each = $12.5M; now divide that by 5 years and you end up with $2.5M a year. In the grand scheme of things, $2.5M per year is pretty good revenue for a plastic card, even when you start subtracting the amount of money it takes to run the program at LSP.
Take Salaries, Retirement and Healthcare Benefits, Offices and Computers, etc. out of 2.5 million, leaves not much, BUT it is another Government Tax and Control over Citizens Rights.
Take Salaries, Retirement and Healthcare Benefits, Offices and Computers, etc. out of 2.5 million, leaves not much, BUT it is another Government Tax and Control over Citizens Rights.
When is the last time you think the state government actually looked at the whole picture? They look at money coming in and worry about the rest when it's too late.
Years and years of debt prove that.
I have my opinions about why it's both good and bad.
Regardless, what I find comical is the people whose only excuse is that you are giving the government your information, don't realize that they already have your information.
"But they take your fingerprints"
Yea? Ever applied for a Federally regulated TWIC? Ever been logged into DISA?
There is nothing funny about data breaches. I heard a rumor that LSP itself, got breached last week but were keeping it under wraps to assess the size and scope of it. If that is true, and they end up not telling the public, that is all a person needs to know about handing over more personal information to government bureaucracies.
Quite frankly, they can't be trusted to keep it safe!
Chances are, your bank has had data breaches at some point. Hell, the IRS has had data breaches.
At some point in your life, you have given the government, public entities, and private entities your personal information. If that's someone's reasoning for not obtaining a CHP, so be it, but I don't invest much in Reynolds Wrap.
So, in your view, we should all just take it; because that is the way it goes? If you get all your retirement stolen or your bank accounts cleaned out, oh well? That's the breaks? I don't agree with that.
It doesn't matter, either! If I voluntarily provide my info for something I choose to do, then that is the risk I take. If you make me give you my personal info, like for a CHP or a Driver's License, then it is YOUR responsibility to keep my info secure. If you can't, you shouldn't have that info. That is the difference. The biggest problem is government bureaucracies are not accountable to us for anything like that.
The internet is worthless when it comes to digital security, and dummies on computers in companies and bureaucracies are the biggest culprits. It is only going to get worse. Tin foil has nothing to do with the reality.
FWIW, I am constantly trying to draw down on my personal digital info on the internet and in databases. If others don't care what they have out there, or the pitfalls that lurk, that is their business!
Chances are, your bank has had data breaches at some point. Hell, the IRS has had data breaches.
At some point in your life, you have given the government, public entities, and private entities your personal information. If that's someone's reasoning for not obtaining a CHP, so be it, but I don't invest much in Reynolds Wrap.
If you are against the principle of having CHP's (which I fundamentally am), then this is an entirely appropriate question to ask.
Here's another one: if the Sheriff is handling HIPPA protected medical data as a part of CHP applications, do they have the necessary safeguards in place to protect this information? I work in healthcare IT and know what it takes to protect this data. Would you assume that the local sheriff has the same level of sophistication in its handling of this sensitive information?
I'm waiting for the right time to ask this bomb of a question in a legislative committee meeting.
Mike
I fully understand what you're alluding to, but I have to ask... Why is your Sheriff handling CHP applications?
Great question. Will you join me in legislative committee meetings to raise these concerns?
Mike
There is nothing funny about data breaches. I heard a rumor that LSP itself, got breached last week but were keeping it under wraps to assess the size and scope of it. If that is true, and they end up not telling the public, that is all a person needs to know about handing over more personal information to government bureaucracies.
Quite frankly, they can't be trusted to keep it safe!
If they were breached, they're keeping it from their IT people.
If they were breached, they're keeping it from their IT people.
But he heard a rumor.