Great News! I know that the resolution has no teeth, but maybe it increase the national conversation about states rights. Now, if we can get this one to get Perry’s support.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=81R&Bill=HB1863
This particular point has come up numerous times when these initiatives are discussed. Technically and legally accurate BUT not necessarily true IMHO. I've used any number of examples to demonstrate a how mere words can potentially create a desired outcome; I've come up with another one: ;^)
Let's say I'm some dude in my prime; 6'4", 250 lbs of rompin' stompin' hell death and destruction and you're the poster boy for "98 lb weakling". However, I've allowed you by way of legalistic deceptions and battering by a complicit cheering squad of half wits in the State Run Media to intimidate me. I've made up my mind I'm NOT gonna take it any more and I tell you that if you so much as blink your eyes again in my presence, I'll hit you so hard it'll make your momma's nose bleed, would it give you pause? Would it possibly have you steppin' and fetchin' for some toothpicks to hold your eyelids open or turning tail and beating a hasty retreat?
...but maybe it increase the national conversation about states rights. Now, if we can get this one to get Perry’s support.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=81R&Bill=HB1863
This one is liable not to make it given the large metro areas in Texas but you just never know. We can get on the horn to our reps and offer our support and encouragement - which I've done BTW. You're probably aware the Montana legislature has recently passed what appears to be an identical bill that's awaiting a DIM governor's signature to become law. NO major metro areas where most of the ne'er-do-wells tend to congregate; probably a comparatively low incidence of crime, partitularly drug related crime, so...