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by jimlongley
Fri Dec 30, 2011 10:59 am
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Open carry on your own property??
Replies: 28
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Re: Open carry on your own property??

Heartland Patriot wrote:Maybe I'm wrong here, but it seems that jimlongley and speedsix are arguing "beating the rap" vs. "beating the ride"...as in: "you can beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride". Just my two cents.
Exactly, but apparently we are supposed to understand that elipses between apparently independent statements are actually conjunctions. Oh well . . .

If I am carrying openly on my own property, no matter where I am carrying, unless I am being threatening and pointing the gun at people, common sense, and Texas law says I should be left alone.
by jimlongley
Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:32 pm
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Open carry on your own property??
Replies: 28
Views: 4278

Re: Open carry on your own property??

speedsix wrote:...you pulled the quoted words out of context. which change the meaning considerably...and then argued your disagreement as if I'd said something else...read my post together and you'll get what I really said...

... your example says that you were "carrying" while going out to your car, NOT walking around your property carrying a handgun in your hand near the fence by a highway or in your yard out by the curb for an extended period of time...which is what the quoted words and the paragraph around them referred to...may I correctly assume that you were carrying in a holster or at least stuck in your belt, and not in your hand, when the neighbor came over to inquire?

...I was not addressing "open carrying" on his property...with that paragraph...I answered that question, and the second, with my first part...
Your elipses are improperly applied, then, and I do not understand your statement and question.

But, since open carry is legal on one's own property, common sense still dictates that, even carried in the hand, it's open carry, legal in Texas, and whoever notices should just get over it.
by jimlongley
Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:06 am
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Open carry on your own property??
Replies: 28
Views: 4278

Re: Open carry on your own property??

speedsix wrote:...common sense would dictate that that might alarm folks and could be construed as "disturbing the peace"...it's not something a reasonable person would do unless he were about to shoot it...
I disagree. Common sense should be based on what is legal and normal. This is Texas, therefore common sense would dictate that someone open carrying on their own property is doing what is legal and proper and there is no reason to panic.

When we first moved into this house, I went out to my driveway to get something out of my car, and my new next door neighbor's son, who is a LEO in a different city, observed that I was carrying. This worthy didn't bother to ask me about it, but his mother came over and asked me if I was a LEO. I told her that I was not, but that it was legal for me to carry open on my property, and she left. Never heard another word.

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