I look at it this way. It should NOT be illegal to exercise your constitutional rights. We all have the right to KEEP and BEAR arms.
So from that aspect we need to repeal laws preventing the law abiding people from exercising their constitutional rights. There are still a number of State AND Federal laws that need to be repealed so that honest people can use firearms for ALL LAWFUL PURPOSES.
That said, in an unprecedented moment America just added 12 MILLION new gun owners over the last year and Texas is the
3rd fastest growing state in the country. All those new gun owners and many out of staters have no firearms training & experience, or specific knowledge of Texas Laws.
I think we can all agree that firearms owners enhance everyone's safety when they have the proper knowledge, skills, and attitude.
Long experience and current numbers show that American's are reluctant to seek the training they need unless required to do so
Beyond the One Percent.
We know what works from history:
"For a people who are free and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security."
"it proves more forcibly the necessity of obliging every citizen to be a soldier; this was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free State."
"I think the truth must now be obvious that our people are too happy at home to enter into regular service, and that we cannot be defended but by making every citizen a soldier, as the Greeks and Romans who had no standing armies; and that in doing this all must be marshaled, classed by their ages, and every service ascribed to its competent class."
"We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education. We can never be safe till this is done."
--Thomas Jefferson
In order to promote freedom and save our Republic, the way forward is for government funded firearms training for law abiding citizens.
On the plus side, when the Anti's say gun owners need training, we just respond with our demand for millions of dollars of PRO-freedom funding. It allows the pro-second amendment community to constitutionally leverage government resources in the correct and proper way.
