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by Oldgringo
Sun Jul 25, 2010 9:57 pm
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Open Carry
Replies: 184
Views: 25493

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jester wrote:
Oldgringo wrote:IDEA! Let's have an amendment whereby the voters can decide if a "political jurisdiction" wants OC or not. Let the voters decide. Ain't that the American way?
Do they also get to decide if they will allow Mosques? How about allowing Negros to vote? :roll:

Constitutional rights are Constitutional rights, no matter how much bigots don't like "those people" having rights.
The Negro voting question was answered a long time ago and I'm okay with that.

The mosque question was answered on 9/11/2001as far as I'm concerned. Anything I didn't already know about Islam was driven home in a murderous lesson that day by cowardly religious fanatic zealots bent on destroying the United States. No mosques allowed in this country! It's way past time we quit apologizing for being Americans.

Back to OC in Texas, if you please.
by Oldgringo
Sun Jul 25, 2010 7:58 pm
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Open Carry
Replies: 184
Views: 25493

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03Lightningrocks wrote:I suspect Ole Gringo may be yanking a few chains just to see who rattles. :biggrinjester:
Not really. If the OC question was put to a popular vote, the question would be answered - win, lose or draw.

Assuming for a moment that the OC question was on the ballot, how would I vote? I dunno', how would you vote?
by Oldgringo
Sun Jul 25, 2010 5:29 pm
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Open Carry
Replies: 184
Views: 25493

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mr surveyor wrote:surely you're not serious?

purchasing alcohol in a wet county and driving across the county line into a dry county is not illegal.



surv
Yep, I'm as serious as an intestinal blockage. After the votes are taken and the laws are in place, OC becomes a local issue and the politicos can go back to working on their re-election efforts.

Just like the BG's rigidly adhere to 30.06 signs, the OC folk would stow their 'big irons' when they crossed the jurisdictional boundaries and we would all live happily everafter while learning to speak Spanish and Arabic.
by Oldgringo
Sun Jul 25, 2010 4:57 pm
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Open Carry
Replies: 184
Views: 25493

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I've got an idea!

Texas is a dry/prohibitionist state by law. Texas' Constitution provides that "a political jurisdiction" can vote itself wet after the legal hoops have been jumped through. The voters speak and the issue is resolved in that "political jurisdiction" for two years.

IDEA! Let's have an amendment whereby the voters can decide if a "political jurisdiction" wants OC or not. Let the voters decide. Ain't that the American way?

There! The problem is solved and the politicians seeking re-election did not have to expose themeslves just like they won't take a position on the border situation. The voters will decide and the politicos can congratulate each other (sound familiar?) on a job well done.
by Oldgringo
Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:58 pm
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Open Carry
Replies: 184
Views: 25493

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My thoughts from another topic:

No one asked but I'm happy with my Texas CHL. No one needs to know whether I'm carrying until they need to know it.

Furthermore, I do not have a problem with the background check either. Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, there are definitely people walking around that don't need to be carrying a gun - OC or CC. (The people I'm talking about are allowed to breed and vote and that's dangerous enough.)
by Oldgringo
Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:32 am
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Open Carry
Replies: 184
Views: 25493

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03Lightningrocks wrote:Well I would be all for OC being legalized if somehow laws were written to keep businesses from posting signs forbidding my right to carry. I am in the HVAC business so I won't bother to pretend I know law and have no idea how the complexities of it would work, I just know I would feel more comfortable about it if it were not for my concern I mentioned above.

I believe folks would be weirded out by seeing guys walking around my particular city with a gun hanging off their hip. Unless it were a law enforcement officer wearing his/her uniform. I live in Plano, where most of the folks are conservative but also very much the "City Slickers".

P.S. Maybe I am wrong about how folks around my area would react, but based on conversation with the average everyday sheeple i have around Town, i believe they would be weirded out by seeing guns hanging off the hips of the everyday citizen.
I think you're probably right. We put 11,000 miles on our truck and 'lil RV last summer through at least seven (7) western states that allow OC and I only saw one guy in rural CO with an OC. I know that jerk and he needs to carry a gun.

I, for one, don't need OC. (there's a difference between need and want)

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