KLB wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 9:36 am There's a disease that commonly infects those elected to public office. The most obvious symptom is that the person comes to view himself as above ordinary people, not as a servant of ordinary people. One manifestation of that is the apparent belief that laws restricting his authority are not binding.
How else to explain the nearly ubiquitous resistance to Texas carry laws?
However, the resistance of allowing carry here in Texas, has very deep roots. It hasn't been very long ago, that Texas was held in a death grip, by left wing Democrats. The disarmament of Texans, started a long time ago, and while there may be some attitudes imported from both the left and right coasts, there is still a prevailing attitude among those in power, that only LEO are trustworthy enough to carry guns. It took ousting our last Democrat Governor, to even get concealed carry passed, and even then there were a lot of restrictions, and it was cost prohibitive for a lot of people. We were viewed as a very quaint group, who got to play with guns, but our numbers were so low, that we had almost no voice.
That has changed in recent years, but that attitude towards us still remains. Third and fourth generation, judges, city council persons, county Sheriffs, etc. still hold on to those attitudes, because " that's the way it's always been" and they don't like State legislator's to tell them what they can do locally.