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C-dub wrote:I would have much rather seen the removal of more off limit places and or campus carry instead of licensed or unlicensed OC. They only reason I would favor OC is if it would shut the nuts up, but since it will be licensed OC that is passed we'll continue to hear from them. Too bad.

Well said and nothing to add.

It's now been a month (03/20/2015) since the House received SB11.

It isn't the nuts that want open carry. It is the will of the supra controlling body of the majority party in the State Legislature. Never mind the directive was issued to pass a constitutional amendment to remove the safety clause. Thus rendering all of Texas's crapy regulation null immediately.

It is regrettable that the legislature feels it can safely ignore the will of the Republican party. Things will be changing in the next few cycles like you have never seen before.

amtank wrote:It isn't the nuts that want open carry. It is the will of the supra controlling body of the majority party in the State Legislature. Never mind the directive was issued to pass a constitutional amendment to remove the safety clause. Thus rendering all of Texas's crapy regulation null immediately.

It is regrettable that the legislature feels it can safely ignore the will of the Republican party. Things will be changing in the next few cycles like you have never seen before.

v7a wrote:It's now been a month (03/20/2015) since the House received SB11.

It's been even longer since they received SB 17, and it hasn't been referred to committee either.

amtank wrote:It isn't the nuts that want open carry. It is the will of the supra controlling body of the majority party in the State Legislature. Never mind the directive was issued to pass a constitutional amendment to remove the safety clause. Thus rendering all of Texas's crapy regulation null immediately.

It is regrettable that the legislature feels it can safely ignore the will of the Republican party. Things will be changing in the next few cycles like you have never seen before.

That's not the voice of the supra controlling body of the majority party you hear; it's the reverberation inside that no-compromise, Kory-Watkins-shaped echo chamber you live in. The fact that everyone around you supports "constitutional" right-to-carry reform doesn't mean you're in the majority; it means you're in a bubble. The Republican party platform (which I can only assume is the "directive" to which you refer) is more or less meaningless. Texas legislators understand that the diehards who get themselves elected as delegates to the state convention aren't representative of the party as a whole (a recent poll found just 14% of Republicans in support of constitutional carry) and certainly aren't indicative of the legislators' own constituencies. The notion that constitutional-carry activists could sway a PTA election, much less a Texas House or Senate election, would be laughable if it didn't cast such a frightening, delusional light on the people espousing it.

C-dub wrote:I would have much rather seen the removal of more off limit places and or campus carry instead of licensed or unlicensed OC. They only reason I would favor OC is if it would shut the nuts up, but since it will be licensed OC that is passed we'll continue to hear from them. Too bad.

THIS