Brownsville Herald Poll "Are opposed to the new open carry gun law in Texas?"

[K.Mooneyham]

86% - and whole 'less of a man argument' is stupid. I'm not going to start a fight, and if someone starts a deadly confrontation to me, I'm under no obligation to fight fair.

Yep. Whether an attacker is unarmed or not, I do not consent, and will not be forced into participating in a fist fight. I'm not interested in proving how much of a man I am, and fist fights can turn deadly pretty quickly. I've heard of people dying from getting punched in the throat, temple, nose, or falling and hitting their head on a curb. If someone tries to engage me in a fight (which I wouldn't have started, and would have attempted to de-escalate), they're going to be meeting my little friend.

I whole-heartedly admit that I do not possess any MMA skills. Indeed, I don't go around starting problems with others, either. Like you, I will defend myself from unprovoked and unwarranted violent aggression. Fist fights are for drunks and kids.

[Syntyr]

88.1 saying they are not opposed to open carry!

[bortaz]

The Herald should proof read it's headlines.

I'm not really sure what the poll question is asking.

I get a lot of entertainment out ofreading the articles on the valley newspaper/TV news websites, and mocking the illiteracy of the "journalist". Especially on valleycentral.com. You're lucky to find 1 out of every 10 English words spelled correctly. Context eludes them, too, so often even if the word is spelled correctly, it'll be used incorrectly. You can bet they do a fine job on the Spanish, though. It's obvious they couldn't care less about learning English here in the valley. The TV news man-on-the-street interviews are almost exclusively in Spanish.

One article on valleycentral.com was so badly written, and I harassed them so badly about it...they finally just gave up and deleted the article. Ahaha...good times.

I don't think most Texans or most Americans realize there are parts of the country like we have down here.

[Glockster]

Now up to 88.6%.

[The Annoyed Man]

Yes. 11.4%
No. 88.6%

[xd9sc]

Now 88.8% No.

[eureka40]

89.1

[E.Marquez]

Up to 89.3 now....

[Pawpaw]

What the heck... I hadn't voted from my iPad yet.

Now it's up to 89.5%

[airboss]

89.7. Love it.

[ELB]

90 even.

[twomillenium]

86% - and whole 'less of a man argument' is stupid. I'm not going to start a fight, and if someone starts a deadly confrontation to me, I'm under no obligation to fight fair.

Yep. Whether an attacker is unarmed or not, I do not consent, and will not be forced into participating in a fist fight. I'm not interested in proving how much of a man I am, and fist fights can turn deadly pretty quickly. I've heard of people dying from getting punched in the throat, temple, nose, or falling and hitting their head on a curb. If someone tries to engage me in a fight (which I wouldn't have started, and would have attempted to de-escalate), they're going to be meeting my little friend.

I whole-heartedly admit that I do not possess any MMA skills. Indeed, I don't go around starting problems with others, either. Like you, I will defend myself from unprovoked and unwarranted violent aggression. Fist fights are for drunks and kids.

Besides, fist fights hurt and I don't do pain well, unless it is self inflicted and then I think I just finally got use to it.