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TrueFlog wrote:I voted "No", and here's why. I think if OC passed, the number of 30.06 signs would actually decrease. The law is clear that 30.06 only applies to someone carrying under the authority of his CHL. So, if I walk up to a 30.06 sign, all I have to do is uncover and switch to OC - then the sign no longer applies to me, and I can go about my business. In otherwords, the presence of a 30.06 sign would actually encourage CHL'ers to OC while on the premises, and I don't think business want that. So I think they'd be less likely to post new signs and more likely to remove existing signs.

Think that CHL'ers won't OC under those circumstances? Just look at states like VA where CC isn't allowed in bars, but OC is. Lot's of CHL'ers up there switch to OC when they go into a bar (assuming that they aren't drinking). I think we'd see the same thing start to happen in TX.

I think you'd be very mistaken in assuming that the legislature wouldn't go ahead and modify 30.06 to include OC if OC itself was passed.

flintknapper wrote:Voted "I don't know"...because I truly don't. Or at least can't prove it one way or the other.

My gut feeling is that some reaction will take place if the public is not first informed and "primed" for it.

But I don't think the public in general would be opposed to it (or even notice) for the most part.

And where is the majority of the public going to get this "primer" from? I don't know, maybe the same media that refers to every .22 as a fully automatic AK-47? I'm sure they won't talk about the possibility of open carry with any kind of hysterical "bubbas gonna get to strap on his guns to go to wal-mart" angle at all, right?

Once it was passed and only a few did it (which once again brings me to why is it such a dang high priority, if a small number of the 2% who have chls have expressed they would open carry) I'm sure it wouldn't be that big of a deal and life would continue without any blood in the streets, just like when the CHL laws passed.

What worries me is the immediate "jolt" the media will be able to get out of the subject by screaming OMG GUNS EVERYWHERE when the law passes/when it goes into effect....and how many businesses will immediately begin searching for a way to ban guns in their stores and figure out they can post 30.06 signs when they hear those repeated reports.....