[blogblogginaway]

Somehow I think Rita will have different after effects than Katrina.

[BoBToMatoE]

Somehow I think you are right. :)

[Keith in Iowa]

There are no looters or looting...just undocumented consumers initiating indefinite, deferred payment plans.

[MeanWestTexan]

Perhaps, but downtown Houston looks pretty scary with people running lights and some minor civil disorder going on.

Some neighborhoods of Houston (5th Ward for example) are no better than areas of NO.

[Syntyr]

I am already on the look out for targets... I mean looters!

[msnimje]

If they loot, we must shoot

[GOPologist]

The use of arms to defend and protect you and yours is justifiable retribution. (Sounds good and I hope I'm right.)

[LibWhacker]

Makes me want to go to Texas just to see if I can help out -- with the looters, I mean.

[WasDougsLamb]

agree

[N8VTXNinWV]

you bet'cha! ;o)

[muawiyah]

Texas law is not nearly as tough as that in Louisiana. Lest we forget, they can shoot you down for knocking on their door in the evening hours!

Fat lot of good that did them in stopping looting when the city was flooded!

[Tenacious 1]

I lived in Austin for a while and gotta tell you, I love that state. Just a culture of good and well intended, hard working, proud Americans (for the most part).

One last thing. IMO, Texans in general are very respectable proud people. They welcome strangers with good intentions and out those with malintent, sometimes with deadly force.

Ya'll be carefull, good luck and God Speed.

[flashbunny]

uh oh, don't tell hildy!

[Rokke]

Besides the firearms issue, there is also the fact that Texas isn't a welfare ridden cesspool of immorality. Like Mississippi and Alabama before it, Texas will avoid much of the disgrace in New Orleans because it has competent elected officials put in place by people who value integrity more than a welfare check.

[WestTexasWend]

There's probably 250K Texans with Concealed Carry, active or pending, for a start. As for the number of guns in TX?

"If you take 17 million people in Texas and multiply that by about three, you've probably got that many guns." ~
Jim Brown, legislative director for the Texas State Rifle Association (speaking in 1997).

More about Texans and their firearms here >>>
http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/nation/guns/part3/pro.html

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

As I said on a couple of other threads, I stuck a 6'6" Masai spear in the front flower bed with a sign that says "Looters Welcome"

Inside the door is a large trash can with a 12 ga, 22 rifle, and a 9mm handgun. The rest of the weapons are in the back bedroom.

[Continental Soldier]

I think you have to look at the people. Katrina-in-New Orleans may have thrown up a misleading picture of Americans. As we may see in the months ahead, not all of us are inclined to loot, rape, and murder as soon as the lights go out.

[hermgem]

Reasons for not looting in Texas are simple.
Texas has not been governed by Dem's for several decades as N.O. was.
Blacks are not stacked, herded, concentrated in poverty enclaves as happeneed in Louisiana.
There is no need of blacks to brake out from the corral and declare freedom by looting.

[El Gato]

The Texas Constitution Article 1 - BILL OF RIGHTS Section 23 - RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS

Those are not provision of Art. 1 section 23 of the Texas Constitution, They are part of the Penal code, that is statute law. Article 1, Section 23 reads:

Every citizen shall have the right to keep and bear arms in the lawful defense of himself or the State; but the Legislature shall have power, by law, to regulate the wearing of arms, with a view to prevent crime.

The quotes are from Chapter 9 of the Texas Penal Code

[joesnuffy]

God Bless and Keep Texas (and my family members waiting out the storm)

[humblegunner]

Somehow I think Rita will have different after effects than Katrina.

Mostly folks here know better and behave better.

Some of us stay behind to help 'em along.