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Please sign the Texas Open Carry Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/texasoc/petition.html

Whether you wish to OC or not, petition to allow law-abiding
Texans the choice.

If you want to discuss or argue about Open Carry itself the best place is likely on the OpenCarry.org forums http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/

...either the Texas specific sub ear or the general areas for discussing how, why, when, where, what happened etc.

People there are friendly and much like the typical folks here. Good people.

I added my signature!

Added mine and the person next to me!

Thanks you all for signing.

The key is that whether we wish OC ourselves or not, we want everyone to have the RIGHT to make the CHOICE, just like we do with a CHL.

Fewer gun laws are a good thing as none of them can be shown to work in reducing any of violent crime, murder, suicide, nor accidents.

Just signed it. While I may never open carry, the decision whether or not to do so should be mine.

#3500, according to the web site

Kythas wrote:Just signed it. While I may never open carry, the decision whether or not to do so should be mine.

M9FAN wrote:

Kythas wrote:Just signed it. While I may never open carry, the decision whether or not to do so should be mine.

+1

IN...

done (#3533)

how many signatures do you think they are looking for? (other than as many as possible?)

Online petitions are a form of slacktivism. It might make you feel good, but no one pays any attention to them. It's far more effective for you to write a letter to your reps and to the governor yourself. Those, they do pay attention to.

bdickens wrote:It's far more effective for you to write a letter to your reps and to the governor yourself.

Online petitions are like kissing your sister. Makes you feel good but nothing is coming from it. Government agencies officially only accept written signatures for petitions as online are not verifiable.

Perhaps online petitions are not as useful as we would like, or at least perhaps this was true in the past. And it is certainly true that we don't want to stop after only doing one thing -- but need to continue to call our representatives, fax, email and even show up in their offices.

All this is fine for those of us who feel especially strongly about some issue -- for those who support the idea but do not wish to do more, it is still helpful to make their feelings known publicly.

We know this because it has an effect:

Thousands sign petition to make Texas an open-carry state By ANNA M. TINSLEY
atinsley@star-telegram.com
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Mon, Jun. 23, 2008
http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/715977.html

Do what you can -- do all that you can.

Signature added, also got my dad, mom, wife, brother, sister in law, and 4 co-workers to sign :D