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amtank wrote:It isn't the nuts that want open carry. It is the will of the supra controlling body of the majority party in the State Legislature. Never mind the directive was issued to pass a constitutional amendment to remove the safety clause. Thus rendering all of Texas's crapy regulation null immediately.

It is regrettable that the legislature feels it can safely ignore the will of the Republican party. Things will be changing in the next few cycles like you have never seen before.

That's not the voice of the supra controlling body of the majority party you hear; it's the reverberation inside that no-compromise, Kory-Watkins-shaped echo chamber you live in. The fact that everyone around you supports "constitutional" right-to-carry reform doesn't mean you're in the majority; it means you're in a bubble. The Republican party platform (which I can only assume is the "directive" to which you refer) is more or less meaningless. Texas legislators understand that the diehards who get themselves elected as delegates to the state convention aren't representative of the party as a whole (a recent poll found just 14% of Republicans in support of constitutional carry) and certainly aren't indicative of the legislators' own constituencies. The notion that constitutional-carry activists could sway a PTA election, much less a Texas House or Senate election, would be laughable if it didn't cast such a frightening, delusional light on the people espousing it.

v7a wrote:It's now been a month (03/20/2015) since the House received SB11.

It's been even longer since they received SB 17, and it hasn't been referred to committee either.

surferdaddy wrote:Really got my fingers crossed for campus carry, I hope it has a chance allthough I'm skeptical. Big players with big pockets.

Campus carry is up against one of the most powerful lobbies in Texas--higher education. And now Bloomberg is pouring money into Texas, trying to prevent campus carry from passing.

Students for Concealed Carry struck back against Bloomberg today, but it's like David going up against Goliath without the benefit of divine intervention:

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