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lkd wrote:

.30calSolution wrote:OC'ing has worked well in the states that allow it and has not proved to cause any unnecessary escalation in crime. There has also yet to be any incidents that an OC'er was targeted first in a crowd(that I know of anyways).

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I'm not saying this disproves your claim. After all, a sample size of "1" isn't a statistic, unless you work for The Brady Campaign

Concealed carry wouldn't help that guy at all. He wasn't alert when he was open carrying. There's no reason to believe he'll be more alert when his gun is concealed. What's passingly odd is that he'd already been robbed at knifepoint when he decided to carry to protect himself. You'd think he'd be more alert than most, having already been robbed once.

Hoi Polloi wrote:Anyone want to give a summary for those of us who didn't see it?

They talked about campus carry more than open carry. They had the Brady Bunch rep on and a Texas Representative from Garland who plans on introducing the campus carry bill in the next session. They had the typical back and forth between the two sides. They mentioned the wild west as I predicted. One part of the segment had the reporter talking while a lot of shooting was going on. You couldn't hear a thing he said. I thought that was rather odd and wondered if they did it on purpose, but the in-studio reporter pointed it out and said they needed to not do that in the future. They also interviewed a student against campus carry and a student for campus carry and got sound bites from both of them.

I found the segment hard to follow and wasn't really sure what the point of the story was. Maybe that's because I'm old.

Let me guess. "An aggressive lobby group is pressuring the legislature to pass an open carry bill. Open carry would allow anyone to carry weapons in plain sight anywhere in Texas, returning the state to the days of the wild, wild west when everyone carried a gun and gunfights on mainstreet were an everyday occurrence. Experts agree that open carry increases the likelihood that innocent people will die in shootouts. Proponents of the bill claim it's their Constitutional right and the state should not interfere with that right. But many people believe that openly carrying pistols is unnecessary in a society where professional police forces protect us from crime."

See if I'm wrong at 9PM.