Completely agree, thanks for your post.TexasGal wrote:Seems we have a hard core group of open carry advocates who are simply bent on getting our gun rights curtailed. We like to talk about how impossible it is to talk sense into liberals, but these people seem just as unable to think past their own imagined reality. The reality is if this keeps happening they ARE going to stimulate people to apply pressure to legislators. Just not the way these idiots are hoping. Greg Abbot has stated he supports OC. If these demonstrators will knock it off, I doubt that position will garner all that much attention during the election, but if they keep it up, the media will lap it up and help hand votes to Wendy Davis.
With rights comes responsibility, and responsibility involves reasonable thought and common sense...... traits often not found in people or groups who want everything their way.
I carried an M-16 daily in Vietnam for 2 years. Even though I am well equipped with with it's civilian counterpart, I see no valid reason to carry either an AR-15 or M-4 in public.
As a former LEO, I know first hand that 'man with a gun' calls tie up a lot of manpower and resources. In this day and age where school and work place shootings are evoking so much anti-gun sentiment, I see no valid, common sense reasoning behind giving the opposition more ammunition to use against us because of actions commonly associated with publicity stunts.