Skiprr wrote:Charles L. Cotton wrote:I've made my feelings about open-carry known, but I will not oppose their efforts either openly or behind the scenes. However, if they try to amend one of our bills and tack on their stuff, I promise you it will fail! Our bills are very carefully drafted and I'm not going to let anyone screw one up and harm our chances of getting something passed. I hope this is just interview talk and not part of their battle plan. If it really is, they will be making a very big mistake and making an enemy they don't want or need. I'll stay neutral as long as they don't mess with our legislation.
I don't really care one whit or another about whether Texas allows open carry. Even in the states where it's legal, we've already seen numerous reports that far fewer people do it than might be expected. I won't go into all the very good reasons that's so, but I could envision
very few circumstances I would open carry.
But what deeply concerns me is that we have issues that are important to Texans; issues that have been on the table for years and that failed to make it out of committee in the 2007 Legislature; things like the Parking Lot Bill, for one.
Who knows how the political landscape in Texas will look in two more years? We need to accomplish
this session those issues that are most pressing to
Texas. We don't need the important, focused, legislative agenda interrupted, confused, or diluted by Pierce and Stollenwerk deciding to "mess with Texas" from their Virginia homes in order to foster their own agenda and belief sets.