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Keith B wrote:

Republicans 4 Obama wrote:Open carry is a bad idea.

Pretty broad statement there. Care to back it up with any valid arguments??

Screen name says it all, doesn't it?

tommyg wrote:I think Texas needs to stay concealed carry I'm living in Austin (not by choice my employer forced me to move here from Arlington) I do not share the opinions of the liberal gun hating inhabitants of this city. If open carry were allowed in Austin the signs would go rampent and carry would be hurt bad over it.

Austin isn't any more liberal than Cleveland, OH, Columbus, OH or Detroit MI. All three of those cities allow open carry. I've open carried in each of them. Signs aren't "rampant". There are places they exist, but 95% of my day was not affected by signage.

Charles L. Cotton wrote:So when discussing open-carry, understand that in terms of signage, TPC §30.06 must remain applicable only to concealed-carry, or it's a deal-breaker.

Makes sense to me.

I have no problem with a gun outline with a slash through it scribbled in crayon on a brown paper sack constituting effective notice regarding unlicensed open carry. However, if 30.06 gets re-written so the one single sign applies to both unlicensed open carry and licensed concealed carry, then that is a problem.

If the signage can of worms gets opened and they are performing the legislative sausage grinding, then a careful insertion of the word "intentionally" would help, with "knowingly" being a second choice.

I'd have no problem open carrying anywhere in Houston tomorrow if it was legal.

(Unless it is a part of Houston that I wouldn't go to under any circumstances anyway.)