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A Good Book I read said that some lawful things are not the best way to do things and that some lawful things are not good for us. Some folks way back in time were pretty smart.

Charles L. Cotton wrote:I can't go into detail, but if the current tactics continue, then open-carry will be DOA in the 2015 Texas Legislative Session. The legislative response is bad and getting worse and it's not because our friends in Austin are anti-gun as some will scream from the rooftops.

Chas.

I absolutely believe you are right and that is as it should be. The open-carry practitioners who are creating negative-journalism protests are doing just what you have said in the past Charles, taking away gains made by the work of concealed-carry polititions and their constituents whom you have long championed.

I see no good end from these confrontational tactics, and to claim that they are putting weapons in front of people to make the public comfortable with them is disingenuous at best. Civilians with firearms are portrayed on television and in the movies with a largely negative connotation that will always be slanting public opinion. Doing things to bring these fears to mind in places that the public considers their "stomping grounds" is just not clever, smart, or cute in any form or fashion.

As for the question of licensing for open-carry, I support licensing. I'll just leave it at that.