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Texas gun bills taking us back to Old West days
star-telegram.com ^ | 3/20/2015 | Bob Ray Sanders

Posted on 03/21/2015 6:43:32 AM PDT by rktman

Oh, how I wish Texas lawmakers cared as much about our children as they do their guns.

And wouldn’t it be terrific if the folks who represent us in Austin despised injustice as much as they do immigration and taxes?

I suppose, given the makeup of our state Legislature and the leadership in the top statewide offices, that’s a little too much to hope for.

It is no surprise that new gun legislation has been put on a fast track at the Capitol, sailing through committee and floor votes with ease, while our underfunded public schools likely will languish.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; guncontrol; texas; tx
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To: rktman
What would the old west have been like if only criminals had guns?

21 posted on 03/21/2015 6:52:29 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: rktman

Bob Ray is the race baiter of Fort Worth. Always has been. He very seldom says any truth about the problems in his community.


22 posted on 03/21/2015 6:52:54 AM PDT by DainBramage
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To: rktman

Why doesn’t Bob Ray move to New York or California. That’s why the founders set up a federal system.


23 posted on 03/21/2015 6:53:26 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: rktman

Out of curiosity, how many children were killed in “gallop by shootings” back in the wild west days?


24 posted on 03/21/2015 6:53:40 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: rktman

Hmmmmm-the Old West days. Like when people took care of themselves, respected one another, had jobs, went to church and considered decency a virtue? Those Old West days?


25 posted on 03/21/2015 6:54:03 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: rktman
It makes me wonder if that’s where we’re also headed with public education — back to the days of the one-room schoolhouse, and the townfolk waiting for the new schoolmarm to arrive on the afternoon stage.

Hyperbole. Kids were smarter then. Bob Ray Sanders proves it with this "opinion" piece.

26 posted on 03/21/2015 6:54:52 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Tudorfly

“The author of this article is a moron. A liberal moonbat moron, who does not understand history nor the truth that a more armed society is a more polite and safer society.”

Ole Bobby Ray got a lot of things wrong; including his disparaging comment about “returning to one room school houses”. Actually students of those one room school houses would do quite well if tested by today’s tests, especially if compared against today’s counterparts.


27 posted on 03/21/2015 6:57:01 AM PDT by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: rktman

“After dinner I’ll tell you I know about this Tarzan, Flash Gordon person.”


28 posted on 03/21/2015 7:02:46 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: rktman

All the liberals should vote with their feet and flee Texas before the shooting starts.


29 posted on 03/21/2015 7:04:23 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: rktman

THIS old myth again???? For cripes’ sake, you’d think the Ministry of Propaganda could come up with something NEW for a change!


30 posted on 03/21/2015 7:05:52 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: mad_as_he$$
...the incorrect legend of the old West.

Yep, the schools worked better and were cheaper then, too.

31 posted on 03/21/2015 7:08:49 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: PAR35

BTTT!


32 posted on 03/21/2015 7:11:32 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: rktman

Like most of the sideline commie bleaters, Bob Ray here chooses to whine and seek attention. If he is so worried about the demise of public schools (which will be sooo much better if only more money is thrown at the teachers unions, right), why does he not quit his insignificant job as a whorenalist, and go mentor, teach or start his own school? But like most ideologues, fixing problems is for someone else.

Or he can get the hell out of Texas. I don’t care where he goes, as long as he goes.


33 posted on 03/21/2015 7:14:44 AM PDT by Ironfocus (Texas!)
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To: rktman
Back in the day, Bob Ray would have been considered to having bad manners and dealt with appropriately.


34 posted on 03/21/2015 7:17:00 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: rktman

The old west days? Yeah, I remember reading about all the knock-out games, Mohammedan sleeper cells, youths shooting babies in the face in their cribs in Old Abilene.


35 posted on 03/21/2015 7:17:33 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: snoringbear
Actually students of those one room school houses would do quite well if tested by today’s tests, especially if compared against today’s counterparts.

In reading, writing, and arithmetic, I'd bet on an eighth grader from a one-room schoolhouse over the average High School graduate of today.`Chances are the Eight grader would do better at History and the classics, too.

36 posted on 03/21/2015 7:18:01 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

You’re right, and I bet he liked it.


37 posted on 03/21/2015 7:18:08 AM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (Every time you vote for a democrat, you put another nail in the coffin of the USA.....)
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To: rktman

There are now only 6 states that prohibit open carry. Did these pundits have anything to say about the old west when the other 43 states allowed open carry? And what about the ones that allow it without a permit?


38 posted on 03/21/2015 7:19:39 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: rktman

Those were better, safer days. Get on back to them while the getten’ is good. Go Texas!


39 posted on 03/21/2015 7:20:24 AM PDT by pallis
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To: Tudorfly

He may well understand all of that and just be a demagogue. Or, he may be a Black Liberation Theologian who wants blacks to keep killing white babies while they sit in their strollers.


40 posted on 03/21/2015 7:20:42 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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