[Q-ManRN]

Texans unite so you can protect yourselves without getting permission from the government first.

[Q-ManRN]

Ping! Texans unite so you can protect yourselves without getting permission from the government first.

[RockyTx]

is anybody else in HD92 ?

[Fiddlstix]

I have come to believe GOA does more than NRA.
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[1010RD]

Stuck in committee in Texas? Isn’t that the freest state in the Union?

This tells you all you need to know about how the elites in both parties really feel about the hoi polloi.

[zeugma]

State website is showing HB 195 has these cosponsors: Keough | Leach | Rinaldi | Shaheen | Simpson | Spitzer | Tinderholt | White, James

Most of the bill is a matter of striking out existing parts of the code. Here's the money bit:

	...The mere possession or carrying of a firearm,
	openly or concealed, with or without a Concealed Handgun License,
	shall not constitute probable cause for a peace officer to disarm or
	detain an otherwise law-abiding person.

Couldn't find who the current sponsors of SB 342 are. The senate website is klunky.

[epow]

There's no valid reason for carry permits, people who don't qualify because they broke a law somewhere aren't going to be concerned about breaking another law. Such laws only make it more difficult for those who don't make a habit of breaking laws reluctant to go through what is a usually lengthy investigation in order to qualify for a Constitutionally guaranteed right.

Of course the $$$ the permits cost play a part, as they do in almost all dealings with the state, and permits are just one more way to put the squeeze on our billfolds. Here in GA it cost me approximately $70 + or - for a 4 year permit, I don't remember exactly.

OK, you might say that's a small price to pay for the protection it affords myself and my wife. But if I look at it that way then all my other Constitutionally guaranteed rights can also be sold to me rather having been bought and paid for in the blood of the Founding Father's who gave us those guarantees over 2 centuries ago.

Just my take on the matter, others may see it differently and that's another right the state may some day decide to sell rather than acknowledge as a basic human right. I don't have to pay for the right to speak my mind, why do I have to pay to exercise my 2nd Amendment rights?

[Ken H]

Give piece a chance!

[Envisioning]

Let’s get it done.....(((ping)))

[Windflier]

We've got no right to complain if we can't be bothered to make a few clicks on the computer to help with this effort.

[servantboy777]

Constitutional carry is dead on arrival. Barkin up a tree.