Texas Senate approves open carry gun bill: What are the repercussions?

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Texas Senate approves open carry gun bill: What are the repercussions?

Up until now, Texas has been one of the few US states to prohibit openly carrying a handgun.

On Monday, the Texas Senate approved Senate Bill 17, which would allow concealed weapons permit holders to openly carry firearms. The bill was passed on along party lines, with Republicans pushing the vote 20 to 11.

more ... http://news.yahoo.com/texas-senate-approves-open-carry-gun-bill-repercussions-171334974.html
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Yawn.

 

[1sickbastard]

Texas Senate approves open carry gun bill: What are the repercussions?

Up until now, Texas has been one of the few US states to prohibit openly carrying a handgun.

On Monday, the Texas Senate approved Senate Bill 17, which would allow concealed weapons permit holders to openly carry firearms. The bill was passed on along party lines, with Republicans pushing the vote 20 to 11.

more ... http://news.yahoo.com/texas-senate-approves-open-carry-gun-bill-repercussions-171334974.html
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Yawn.

Just wait until the brothers start carrying their guns through the rich white burbs in Dallas & Houston, and the cops get called out.
Or we start seeing loaded shotguns on pick-up truck gun racks in rush hour traffic.

 

[FGB]

Just wait until the brothers start carrying their guns through the rich white burbs in Dallas & Houston, and the cops get called out.
Or we start seeing loaded shotguns on pick-up truck gun racks in rush hour traffic.

While I, myself don't really support the open carry thing because it's just plain rude...whatever, I will still go concealed.

Being born and raised here I consider everyone armed...hell, my mother and Grandmother on one side of the family and going on back to the early 1800's carried one in their purses or somewhere close by.

Treat people like you would want to be treated goes along way toward peace getting along with people.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

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[Que]

Texas is kind of odd for a State with a long history with guns.. Arizona always had open carry, no permit. Concealed is more gentlemanly, and for a while we had no law about that. Then we had concealed permits. Now, sensibly, anyone not prohibited from owning a firearm can care it openly or concealed, as God intended.

Just wait until the brothers start carrying their guns through the rich white burbs in Dallas & Houston, and the cops get called out.
Or we start seeing loaded shotguns on pick-up truck gun racks in rush hour traffic.

How can you tell they are loaded, seeing them in gun racks? Assuming a round is not chambered, why would this frighten you?

As far as "the brothers" openly carrying, I would assume that they are not felons if they are caring openly, and would welcome the presence of a law-abiding gun owner.

 

[miles]

Just wait until the brothers start carrying their guns through the rich white burbs in Dallas & Houston, and the cops get called out.
Or we start seeing loaded shotguns on pick-up truck gun racks in rush hour traffic.

Why would "the brothers" go into the white burbs openly carrying a loaded gun?

Sounds pretty racist.

 

[about_average]

Repercussions?
More calls to 911.
More people shot before the originally intended crime is committed.

 

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[Ulaven_Demorte]

An armed society is a polite society.

Not historically. An armed society is a violent bloody one.

Is it your contention that the old west was "polite" when most everyone carried weapons?

 

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[Ulaven_Demorte]

Actually putting Hollywood aside, no doubt where you got most of your "wild west" history, the old West was safer than living in the big city ghettos of the East which were teeming with criminals, gangs, and danger.

I'm sure your memories of the old west are much closer to reality than my studies are.

But to address your assertion:

Only because you were less likely to run into other people out in the prairie than you were in the city. But when you did, your odds of being robbed, shot, etc, were no less than the city slicker in a NYC "Ghetto".

 

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[miles]

Actually putting Hollywood aside, no doubt where you got most of your "wild west" history, the old West was safer than living in the big city ghettos of the East which were teeming with criminals, gangs, and danger.

Not to mention cop killers...

 

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[Ulaven_Demorte]

Thus the old west was safer, as I said. Go here to page 6&7, then go to footnote 12.

http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/st181.pdf

For Christ's sake..

The old west wasn't safer than NYC or other eastern towns because people were armed. It was safer because you were less likely to run into other people in fucking Nowhere, Montana than you were in big cities.

We won't even get into the fact that the NCPA is a Koch funded think tank with ties to ALEC and the paper is from 1994.

 

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[KingOrfeo]

Being born and raised here I consider everyone armed...hell, my mother and Grandmother on one side of the family and going on back to the early 1800's carried one in their purses or somewhere close by.

You do see how sick that is, don't you?

 

[KingOrfeo]

I've read thousands of pages of history on the old west, spent a lifetime traveling around in it, photographing it, and studying it. Next week I'll be in Wyoming doing the same. The fact is there was less crime and you were much safer in the old west than you were in any of the big eastern cities like New York and Boston, and much of the reason was as you state it, but also because being an asshole, or a crook, could get you killed because people were armed and justice was swift.

You do see how sick that is, don't you?

 

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[KingOrfeo]

Crime is sick, tolerance of crime is sick, self defense is a principle of freedom carved in stone in civilized society. Nobody has a right to prey on the civil society.

Nobody has a right to administer their own justice, either.

 

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[KingOrfeo]

There's nothing sicker than a liberal. He's at war with the liberty of millions to gain a measure of security against any perceived evil he's too cowardly to confront himself.

But, liberals are not too cowardly to confront evil, that's what they do. It's conservatives who would prefer to tolerate evil so long as it's traditional.

 

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[KingOrfeo]

In America you do have a right to self defense, and justifiable homicide is supported by law in every state of the union.

But lynching and dueling are not. "Self-defense" hardly applies in the cases you are thinking of.

 

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