Return to “Incapable of civil discourse and debate”
Charles L. Cotton wrote:Well, it seems impossible to get this thread back on topic, but I'll try once more before closing it. Keep arguing irrelevant issues and ignore Grisham/OCT, Watkins/OCTC rather than condemn them and the general public will continue to paint all open-carry supporters with the same broad brush.
Chas.
It might be that:TXBO wrote:I am in no way defending OCT or Grisham. Perry's remarks, however, deserve criticism through "civil discourse and debate". The absence of that from respected voices is disappointing. It also leaves ad hominem as the only response. Where is the discourse from the civil second amendment proponents?Charles L. Cotton wrote:The topic of this thread is civil discourse and debate, not the merits of licensed or unlicensed open-carry. I have to admit that I expected some folks to come to the defense of OCT and Grisham.steveincowtown wrote:TXBO wrote:Here's another direct quote of Perry from the same article:
In his interview Thursday, Perry also said gun owners should be "appropriately backgrounded, appropriately vetted, appropriately trained."
"We license people to drive on our highways,” he said. “We give them that privilege. The same is true with our concealed handguns.”
Sounds like talking points right out of the liberal handbook.Following this logic here we should also register guns, after all cars are registered. There is also no "right to drive" enumerated in the constitution.
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Chas.
IIRC but felons can't vote in Texas.fickman wrote: I talked to her about Constitutional rights vs. privileges; I talked to her about how we let everybody vote even though they do great harm when they are uninformed, but we cannot give a literacy test. . ..
So there are limits to everything, and everything should be discussed.Who can vote in Texas?
To be eligible to register to vote in Texas, a person must be:
•A United States citizen;
•A resident of the Texas county in which application for registration is made;
•At least 18 years old on Election Day;
•Not finally convicted of a felony, or, if so convicted must have (1) fully discharged the sentence, including any term of incarceration, parole, or supervision, or completed a period of probation ordered by any court; or (2) been pardoned or otherwise released from the resulting disability to vote; and
•Not determined by a final judgment of a court exercising probate jurisdiction to be (1) totally mentally incapacitated; or (2) partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote.
