Petition to Allow Open Carry in Texas

[Jumping Frog]

Please give me a break on your feigned outrage of my sig. if i had a $0.05 for every derogatory comment or sigs made about liberals, lefties or democrats in this form I'd have more money than Donald Trump and Mitt Romney combined.

If you leave me alone about my signature, I'll leave you alone about yours.

[pbwalker]

Incidental exposure of your legal CC isn't a crime in Texas - threatening and brandishing is.

NO, it is NOT! There is no such thing as brandishing in Texas.

Do you even know the meaning of brandishing?? Try it front of a Texas LEO and let's see what happens to you or your CHL.

AEA knows the meaning of the word "brandishing". If you can quote the section of the Texas Code that lists "brandishing" as a crime, please do so.

I'm still waiting to see this!

Here's a hint Wino...it's not in there.

[AEA]

I'm waiting for the "I'm sorry, you are correct" from him........

Hint: It will never come.......

[74novaman]

I'm waiting for the "I'm sorry, you are correct" from him........

Good luck, I think you might be waiting for a while.

He went straight from his first incorrect statement to either calling the legislature idiots or implying that they were thinking about brandishing when they wrote other parts of the law, or maybe both. Either way, it doesn't prove him wrong in his mind.

[recaffeination]

I don't see where the First Amendment freedom of religion requires people to conceal their crucifixes or burqas or where the Second Amendment right to bear arms requires handguns to be concealed.

[74novaman]

I don't see where the First Amendment freedom of religion requires people to conceal their crucifixes or burqas or where the Second Amendment right to bear arms requires handguns to be concealed.

Agreed.

[AEA]

WHY do all these Open Carry threads always turn into trends like this thread?

I'm SICK of it!

Why don't they just pass it (like other States have) and let the ones that carry decide how they want to do it. Then we can end this if/or discussion for good.

[WildBill]

WHY do all these Open Carry threads always turn into trends like this thread?

I'm SICK of it!

Why don't they just pass it (like other States have) and let the ones that carry decide how they want to do it. Then we can end this if/or discussion for good.

That is why I usually ignore OC threads. Some people can't grasp reality.

[Heartland Patriot]

One of the reasons that these OC threads turn bad is because while some folks believe that OC simply isn't prudent, shall we say, others are actually AFRAID of it and do whatever they can to disrupt the discussion.

[Charles L. Cotton]

Personally feel open carry is silly and juvenile. Incidental exposure of your legal CC isn't a crime in Texas - threatening and brandishing is. Making a best effort to conceal and having it accidentally exposed may get a LEO sicced on you, but if legally licensed to carry it's not going anywhere. In any case, don't really care one way ot the other about public open carry in Texas.

"Silly and juvenile"...that's an interesting way to put it, considering your signature line.

I consider winos signature line to be tantamount to character assassination of half the people on this forum so I give no credence whatsoever to anything he says.

Please give me a break on your feigned outrage of my sig. if i had a $0.05 for every derogatory comment or sigs made about liberals, lefties or democrats in this form I'd have more money than Donald Trump and Mitt Romney combined.

Putting a comment in a post is one thing; but adding your insult to your signature line puts it in every one of your posts. Perhaps you will reconsider.

Chas.

[gigag04]

IBTL....

[scud runner]

IBTL....

It's a sad state when the antis can get a pro gun thread locked by misbehaving in it.

[G.A. Heath]

One of the reasons that these OC threads turn bad is because while some folks believe that OC simply isn't prudent, shall we say, others are actually AFRAID of it and do whatever they can to disrupt the discussion.

I think we actually have a miscommunication here. I think a large number of the locked threads on OC are done so because some posters in those threads are trying to get become a cool-kid in the Texas OC crowd by getting banned here. We comments from the TxOC cool-kid wannabes and we see comments from the CC NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard) which tend to feed off each other and in the end do more harm than good for everyone. The TxOC cool-kids claim all of us on here are anti-OC but only a small number actually are. Meanwhile a large number of folks on here (I myself keep falling into this group) tend to get the impression that the TxOC crowd are nothing but a group of loud mouth bomb throwers who want attention when in actuallity only a small number are. I am all up for a good debate on When/Where/Who/How and Why OC should be legalized but the radicals on both sides of the debate will do their best to disrupt said debate. With that said I guess I will go renew my "Elitist" status and say that OC isn't a high priority for me, its on the list but I have other things I feel are more important. For the record I will not appose a good bill that doesn't hurt other efforts and progress but I will appose a bad bill that does. If we get OC then I am all for it, although I probably will do so only rarely.

[Jumping Frog]

IBTL....

I think maybe I should post IBTL every time a new open carry thread starts right at the beginning, since it seems darn near inevitable.

[WinoVeritas]

Please give me a break on your feigned outrage of my sig. if i had a $0.05 for every derogatory comment or sigs made about liberals, lefties or democrats in this form I'd have more money than Donald Trump and Mitt Romney combined.

If you leave me alone about my signature, I'll leave you alone about yours.

Why, pray tell, would I bother you about your sig??