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smoothoperator wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:the President of LoneStarCDL

Who?

Speaking of which......

"HB 2756 (Dead - Calenders Committee failed to schedule it for floor vote after it passed HS/PS Committee with flying colors)"

Is how it's characterized on their website. Is it hard hardheadedness? Is it being clueless? Is it self promoting? It is delusional? I'm thinking all of the above, and just goofy too. BUt it did make me chuckle and shake my head.

Abraham wrote:I really try to do a good job proof reading before I post, but I blew it this time. (and not for the first time, sigh...)

What I should have posted: If the basic argument for open carry is: Concealed Carry is "uncomfortable"....sorry, but I find that complaint a little short of my sympathy...

I've never heard anyone seriously use that as support for open carry. If it's not a rights or choice issue, then it's self centered and can do more harm than good.

johnferg69 wrote:

Keith B wrote:I just believe that the legialature would feel the sign needed to be more visible than a gun buster sign and would say 'We already have a sign, so just modify it to prevent any carry.' Then those businesses who today don't really know people are carrying would then post signs to prevent open carry and the single sign would prevent concealed carry too. It's the old adage, out of sight, out of mind. When people started open carrying I can garuntee you would see a new crop of signs go up.

Well the newest state to go open carry is Oklahoma. We'll see how much pandemonium ensues.

They're different in that that don't have the luxury of signage like 30.06 we have. So legislation in Texas has to be right so we don't blow all the years of work that went in to getting the protection we enjoy. I want the choice, but I don't want any added risk.

I can say, some places instantly put signs up in Oklahoma, even in small towns yet none of the family members have seen even 1 person carrying, and that covers to cities and 1 small town and everywhere they are in between. They always had more risk, but the open carry option has now increased that risk somewhat, at least until they figure out what some are already figuring out, there won't be any shootouts in the streets. I had a conversation last week about that, up there, and they were lifetime Oklahoma peeps and expected the wild wild west to emerge.