Posted on 12/15/2014 12:30:53 AM PST by CorporateStepsister
"Long depicted as the rootin'-tootin' capital of American gun culture, Texas is one of the few states with an outright ban on the open carry of handguns.
That could change in 2015, with the Republican-dominated Legislature and Gov.-elect Greg Abbott expected to push for expanded gun rights.
'If open carry is good enough for Massachusetts, it's good enough for the state of Texas' Abbott said the day after his election last month."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
If everybody is carrying, there is no need for cops to be so edgy. In a disarmed society, cops have the extra burden to be vigilant.
When everybody is armed, cops can just relax. And the so called police society goes away.
It’s good to see that Texas is making a break with its long, sad history of embracing the DemonRAT party. Conservatism is still relatively new here but it’s been going strong for the past quarter century. The old leftists have died off or moved out of the state. And with the demise of the DemonRATs, comes a vibrant liberty and the demolishing of absurd gun laws that were a blight on this beautiful state.
Well said. As proof positive, there's no safer place on the planet than at a gun range. Courtesy is the rule when everyone is armed.
Exactly; I’m tired of so many snowflakes refusing to understand that in reality, the world is a frontier more than it’ll ever be a country club.
Country club rules never worked in Texas.
What do you mean?
Being over-civilized and hoity-toity.
OK...thanks.
IOW, this law was passed (in 1871) by Republicans.
Massachusetts has open carry?
Yep, Massachusetts has open carry it’s just hard and expensive to get a permit and even harder for concealed. Vermont no permits are required for concealed and open carry. And New Hampshire only a permit is required for concealed, costs $10.00 and easy to get.
Actually, the opposite is happening. With all these large corporate HQ’s moving here, our elected officials, at the local level, are telling their citizens to go to Hell and siding with the Leftist activist groups.
I cite, for example, what happened this past week in Plano, TX at their City Coincil meeting. The Mayor and Council members passed an ordinance, similiar to Houston and San Antonio, guaranteeing the protection of the LGBT class of people. The citizens said they did not want it. The City Attorney and Mayor told them that they knew what was best and passed it agains the will of the people.
Texas is in the crosshairs of the Leftists and we have a big fight on our hands here.
Open carry would be nice, but I’m waiting for the elected officials to cave.
All of this started when Temple Officer Steve Ermis arrested Mr. Grisham for (legally) open carrying his AR15.
Now, there are folks walking around Texas with rifles, and soon handguns.
I don’t think that Officer Ermis, or the City of Temple thought that they would light the fuse of a revolution.
You might say that Steve Ermis is the reluctant Father of Open Carry Texas and singly responsible for the handgun push.
I find that ironic to the point of funny.
Governor Elect Abbott says that he will sign constitutional carry.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2014/11/txgovernor-elect-abbot-says-he-will.html
All that’s fine. It’s just that it’s a little silly to blame liberal Democrats of today for laws passed 140 years ago by Republicans.
“You might say that Steve Ermis is the reluctant Father of Open Carry Texas and singly responsible for the handgun push.”
Kind of like Col. Domingo de Ugartechear that ordered the people of Gonzalss to give up their little cannon. ;-)
The law banning Open Carry of handguns goes back to Reconstruction. Not a native movement that created it.
Texas has always been fiscally conservative, even before it was Republican. (note, I have always been Republican, long before it was fashionable)
Yes, Texas was once controlled by the Democrats. But that was before the Leftist gained total control of the ComDem Party.
I’m native Texan. One of my ancestors was born in The Republic of Texas.
Cops tend to be trigger-happy lately to begin with.
Sorry, but that's just a little too silly to let slide.P>The South, including Texas, has always been the most conservative section of the country, especially on social issues. Sadly, this conservatism was tainetd with racism for over a century. Very glad to see that's been abandoned, as it was not true American conservatism to beging with, IMO.
But Texas and the rest of the South were never liberal in any meaningful sense of the word. As by far the poorest part of the country for a long time, they often supported government programs that would help them, for fairly obvious reasons. But that didn't make them liberal, just self-interested.
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