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Skiprr wrote:Truly bizarre behavior. Not sure I really comprehend it, so I have nothing to say.

I found it interesting that "rodbender" lists texasguntalk.com in his signature, so I checked his profile there. No posts since January 30, and then the prophetic tag: "rodbender has not made any friends yet."

Rockin' avatar Skiprr.

My personal opinion is that rod needs an outlet other than ours.

SA-TX wrote:d) To have new 30.06 signs would mean that people would have to be scared. For them to be scared, there would have to be a substantial amount of open carrying and I don't think there would be. I think very few want to FULLY open carry. I think many more want to casually conceal (in other words, you are generally or somewhat covered but if you become quite exposed, no big deal).

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Here's my prediciton for the day after licensed open carry passes and after the news stories about the novelity have stopped airing: very few will do it, there will be few or no new 30.06 signs. Many more will simply be less stringent about their concealment choices. The vast majority of the people that would be scared by the sight of an open gun will never see one, just as today.

I think you're a little short sighted on 'd' - when CHL passed, without the clarification that had to wait two years, "no guns" signs popped up all over the place. It wasn't "scared" or at least validly scared people putting up the signs, it was just "I don't want any of them gun nuts carrying guns in my place!" kind of things. Two years later after the first round of signage clarification, not as many signs got updated - some paid little attention to the change, others realized that the CHL carriers were not the threat they had assumed they would be, but an adequate number did get changed. After the second round, still more unaware that the law had changed, and likewise those that bothered to upgrade. These are part of the reason I keep asking Charles and TSRA for another signage clarification, but I am also willing to bide my time if I can get parking lot and school carry.

I think that if an open carry law passes we will see a whole new spate of "no guns" signs that comply with whatever is written into the law, and those signs will be just as entrenched as any we have ever seen, making them almost impossible to get removed whether or not OC proves to be as much of a non-issue as it is in other states.