I understand what you're saying and hoped open carry would pass this time, merely to shut up the morons. But even if licensed OC passes that won't shut them up. They'll keep whining for unlicensed OC and Constitutional Carry. It will never be enough for these types until they can carry a full-auto M4 in their hands after being convicted of beating their wives.JSThane wrote:Unfortunately, if you do that, the aforementioned raving lunatics will not go away. Instead, they're going to continue poisoning the water for everyone, and the politicians in Austin (at least the entrenched ones with established power structures, reliable donors, and good-ol'-boy networks) will shy further and further away from the issue. Absent a -complete- leadership change, if it's not accomplished, and soon, it will -never- be, and the rabble-rousers will start affecting other, accompanying issues with their cheery dispositions.A-R wrote:baseballguy2001 wrote: Anybody have any good ideas for Open Carry 2017 t-shirts?
Yes. Don't make nor wear one at all. Open carry is ultimate red herring and wedge issue within the pro-gun crowd. No one can really articulate a reason why it is so necessary or important (other than "because: rights" or "because other states have it".
I say kick open carry to the curb. The raving lunatics on the issue have poisoned it. Move on to the vastly more important battles like removing statutory gun-free zones and reducing 30.06 to a ticketable-only Class C Misdemeanor.
There is one solution that will work. Pass Open Carry, and take the issue away from the idiots. After all, while their tactics are idiotic, they do have a point. Other states have OC, unlicensed OC, even unlicenced carry in general, and there's no blood in the streets, making the Texas ban on open carry a demonstrable malum prohibum law instead of malum in se, and therefore one that should not exist. The argument of "why should we allow this" should be dismissed, and replaced with the argument of "why is this not allowed?"
I wouldn't mind having open carry, might even try it a few times if it passes. I'm just sick of wasting the political capital of gun rights movement in this one pet issue instigated by petulant children.
