Posted on 02/06/2014 8:19:49 AM PST by marktwain
Oh hell yea!
There were some exceptions in the law for carrying while “traveling”. I expect that the law was rather selectively enforced.
We are working on it! - (removing Strauss as Speaker!)
Nope—ole Laz knows me, and I’m very sure he doesn’t want a photo—LOL!
Let the rapist, muggers, robbers, carjackers see what the obstacle is before them.....perhaps they'll think their life is worth more than thirty bucks.
Pretty sure you’d have the choice.
I completely understand your reasoning and agree. Shouldn’t we have a choice?
I agree that it's a personal choice and individual right, but we also have the right NOT to open carry AR-15's into restaurants and grocery stores - it's a right, not a mandate, and any right can be misused.
Republican Governors used to give us the same problem in Kansas when it came to concealed carry. Finally we were able to elect a state congress with enough conservative votes to override the veto of none other than democrat Kathleen Sebelius.
I loved the “old west” ways where anyone could (and did) carry out in the open. Might stop a lot of those “knock out” game playing idiots from even considering it.
I find the current state of Open Carry in TX to be a bit of a mystery. At the moment, the rule is exactly the same as in California, right? No open-carry, period?
Couldn’t agree more, marktwain.
Texas is destined to be a very big part of the salvation of America. Open carry of sidearms is a good first step.
Thanks. What you say makes sense. Given choices, most will probably choose concealed over open carry for the reasons you have stated.
Personally, Open carry is like a beautiful woman who openly displays her nakeness rather than conceals her beauty for special someone. It’s the mystery angle. Does he carry or doesn’t he? Bad guys want to know and only you know for sure.
“I find the current state of Open Carry in TX to be a bit of a mystery. At the moment, the rule is exactly the same as in California, right? No open-carry, period?”
It is a bit more complicated than that. California recently banned unloaded open carry of long guns, for example, while open carry of long guns is protected by the Texas Constitution. There are links in the article that give much of the back story, if you are interested:
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/08/txcome-and-take-it-means-to-restore.html
May as well just admit to yourself that you are FOR some forms of "gun control" then.
If a business doesn't want me to carry in their "open to the public" establishments... They need to put up a sign with their insult clearly stated so I can spend my money elsewhere.
As long as you can draw as fast as The Texan.
I think it would be better for us gun owners to control ourselves (i.e., choose not open carry rifles in places where the public could be unnecessarily alarmed, thus giving gun ownership a bad image), than put certain establishments in a tough position such that they put up signs or, worse yet, the government impose restrictions.
You are free to sit in the back of the bus...
Yes, and I am also free to carry concealed when open carry of a rifle would be unwarranted and unnecessary, but doing so would certainly emphasize the fact that I had the right, and most assuredly make a positive statement regarding gun ownership and gun owners.
All you knuckleheads downthread with your usual moronic parroting of the “tactical risks” of open carry need to understand what this is about. This is not an issue of strapping on yore sixgun and swaggering into the local saloon. This is about a CHL holder bending down to pick up a can of peas at the local grocery store in Austin, Houston, Dallas (or some smaller pocket of Demorat control) and having some bedwetting hoplophobe run to the next aisle and call 911 to report a “gun carrying maniac about to kill us all”.
The way the law stands, that CHL holder, if he is lucky enough not to be riddled with gunfire by the responding JBTs, will almost certainly lose his CHL. He might even wind up doing hard time for it. The point to open carry in Texas is so a concealed firearm accidentally displayed doesn’t ruin a CHL holder’s life.
You may now resume your chest pounding proclamations of “I’d never carry right out in the open cause that might let some varmint get the drop on me”.
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