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Texas Concealed Handgun Law: Ten Years Later
Dallas Blog ^
| 1/5/2006
| Hon. Jerry Patterson
Posted on 01/05/2006 12:39:22 PM PST by Pop Fly
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I've been reading some good stuff over at Dallas Blog lately, and this piece does a great job talking about the ten-year anniversary of the Texas Concealed Hangun law.
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posted on
01/05/2006 12:39:25 PM PST
by
Pop Fly
To: Pop Fly
With 247,345 concealed handgun licenses active in Texas......my wife's and mine among them...
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posted on
01/05/2006 12:44:14 PM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
(Meadows Place, TX-"Tom DeLay Country")
To: Pop Fly
Yet the liberal anti-gun, chicken little idiots in states that are proposing "shall issue" permits for it's citizens STILL scream about "shootouts over fenderbenders" and "blood in the streets".
It is not about guns, it is about control.
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posted on
01/05/2006 12:44:47 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: Pop Fly
Yet the liberal anti-gun, chicken little idiots in states that are proposing "shall issue" permits for it's citizens STILL scream about "shootouts over fenderbenders" and "blood in the streets".
It is not about guns, it is about control.
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posted on
01/05/2006 12:44:48 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: Pop Fly
Flip side: Massachusetts has very strict gun-control laws. And the Boston murder rate is at its highest point in 10 years.
To: Pop Fly
No recurrent shootouts at four-way stops, no blood in the streets. Hmph?! What's with Texas? Loss of backbone? :)
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posted on
01/05/2006 12:47:15 PM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: Pop Fly
Great article. Count me in the CHL stats as well.
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posted on
01/05/2006 12:49:09 PM PST
by
BTHOtu
To: Pop Fly
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posted on
01/05/2006 12:50:01 PM PST
by
PsyOp
(The commonwealth is theirs who hold the arms.... - Aristotle.)
To: ClearCase_guy
As the saying goes...if you lived in Boston, under that kind of state and local government control, you would want to kill someone too.
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posted on
01/05/2006 12:52:18 PM PST
by
in hoc signo vinces
("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis.")
To: Pop Fly
---should be forced reading for the Wisconsin state legislature, whose buffoons are presently yapping about "blood in the streets", etc.---vis-a-vis concealed carry--
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posted on
01/05/2006 12:53:07 PM PST
by
rellimpank
(Don't believe anything about firearms or explosives stated by the mass media---NRABenefactor)
To: Sans-Culotte
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posted on
01/05/2006 12:53:10 PM PST
by
in hoc signo vinces
("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis.")
To: Pop Fly
I knew that when law-abiding Texans’ constitutional right to keep and bear arms was restored... I'm glad that we now have "shall issue" carry in TX, thanks in no small part to Patterson, but if we truly had our "constitutional right to keep and bear arms" restored, we wouldn't have to apply and pay for permission to do so.
To: Pop Fly
BANG! (I'm your huckleberry..)
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posted on
01/05/2006 12:58:05 PM PST
by
Rakkasan1
(Peace de Resistance! Viva la Paper towels!)
To: fanfan; GMMAC; Clive; proud American in Canada
In light of some of the hot rhetoric flowing about more gun control laws in Canada, you may find this enlightening.
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posted on
01/05/2006 1:01:01 PM PST
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: Pop Fly
Since the passage of the Concealed Handgun Law, the FBI Uniform Crime Report shows an 18% drop in handgun murders, down from 838 in 1995 to 688 in 2004. And a 13% drop in handgun murders per 100,000 population, down from 4.5 murders per 100,000 Texans in 1995 to 3.95 per 100,000 in 2004. Too bad the sheeple the City/County of San Francisco, CA weren't smart enough to learn from Texas' success. About 60% of them voted to ban handguns all together.
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posted on
01/05/2006 1:07:23 PM PST
by
Tamar1973
(There's NOTHING I need at 5 a.m., except more sleep!!!!!)
To: Pop Fly
No, no, no...guns kill people. Didn't you get the DNC talking points memo today? More guns = more dead people, plain and simple. Didn't you get Teddy's memo? You know, that murderer that's killed more people with his car than I have with my assault rifle.
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posted on
01/05/2006 1:08:59 PM PST
by
ElectricStrawberry
(27th Infantry Regiment...cut in half during the Clinton years....Nec Aspera Terrent!!!)
To: Pop Fly
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posted on
01/05/2006 1:09:38 PM PST
by
B.O. Plenty
(Islam, liberalism and abortions are terminal..)
To: Pop Fly
Once again, an armed society is a polite society.
Violent criminals become polite.
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posted on
01/05/2006 1:13:20 PM PST
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: backhoe
Thanks for the ping Backhoe.
An armed society is a polite society.
God Bless Texas!
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posted on
01/05/2006 1:18:26 PM PST
by
fanfan
(" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
To: snidely whiplash III
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posted on
01/05/2006 1:19:40 PM PST
by
fanfan
(" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
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