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VoiceofReason wrote:Forty years ago (give or take 5) mainly in the rural areas, ranchers and farmers used to carry long guns openly in a gun rack in their pickup trucks. They had a need for this. I assume the law allowing open carry of long guns was made to accommodate the ranchers and farmers.

Oldgringo wrote:

Beiruty wrote:I do not know why we tolerate ridiculing others efforts to get OC passed in TX. Abbott is on the record that he does support OC.

I support OC; however, there is a right way and a wrong way to go about doing anything.

Dressing like "Duck Dynasty" rejects, brandishing (yes, I said brandishing) guns and taunting the police is not the right way to win OC support of the voting public, the police or the legislature, IMO. OTOH, TV cameras love it and the anti-gun liberals see it as substantiating their position that guns should not be allowed on the streets...or anywhere else.

It is all in the presentation. Perception is reality.

jmra wrote:

JALLEN wrote:You all realize, of course, that this is what the British said about the trouble makers in Boston and on Bunker Hill.

Instead of running around causing trouble, throwing tea in the harbor without an environmental impact report, etc., they should have sent well-dressed, well-spoken representatives to London for a sit down with King George and worked it out like gentlemen.

Apples and Oranges. Progress is being made with the legislative body in Texas related to gun rights. In fact if it weren't for the OC radicals we might already have OC.