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Gun Advocates Lobby For Open-Carry Law
A group of gun advocates is lobbying state lawmakers for an open-carry law ahead of the start of the 2009 session of the Texas Legislature.
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(November 30, 2008)—A group of gun advocates is lobbying state lawmakers for an open-carry law ahead of the start of the 2009 session of the Texas Legislature.
The advocates, who say the state’s concealed carry law is too restrictive, want lawmakers to allow Texans to carry handguns in plain view.
Supporters of "open-carry laws" have placed ads on billboards in Houston and San Antonio and on taxis in Austin.
The Texas campaign is expected to intensify Tuesday with radio spots in Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin that say, "We don't hide our colors, do we?" and encourages Texans to sign an online petition asking lawmakers to make Texas a place where people can openly wear their guns.
More than 28,000 people have signed it so far.
Texas is one of six states along with New York, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Florida and South Carolina in which handguns can't be worn in plain view.
The other 44 states, in the parlance of gun advocates, are known as "open-carry" states.
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THE POST BY LAWMAN SHOWS HOW LITTLE IT TAKES IN BRAINS TO BE A COP. IF YOU GO INTO A STORE TO ROB IT AND 5 OR 6 MEN ARE STANDING THERE WITH A WEAPON ON THEIR HIP ARE YOU GOING TO ROB IT,I THINK NOT. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH LITTLE MAN SYNDROME AND MORE TO DO WITH COMMON SENSE.
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ISN'T IT AMAZING? THE ANTIGUN CROWD IS SCARED SPITLESS THAT SOME HONEST CITIZEN WHO HAS WORKED HARD AND FOLLOWED THE LAW THEIR ENTIRE LIFE MIGHT BE ARMED AND HAVE A GUN ON THEIR HIP. Meanwhile, they NEVER will admit that CRIMINALS ALWAYS ARE ARMED. They never look at Washington DC's history, Chicago's history (INCLUDING today's news that the cops were the main enforcers for drug dealers), or the rampant gun violence in gun banned Britain and Canada among other countries. The antigun crowd whines about their FEAR of HONEST people, those people who would be the first to step up and put their own lives on the line DEFENDING the weak kneed liberal antigun crowd. Sometimes, I think that the antigunners need to be shipped to an antigun city or state and DENIED the right to ever come to Texas again. Obama might "fix" the gun issue for the liberals, but he'll NEVER get Texans to give up their guns. We would fight and since we have guns it would be bloody. My rights are undeniable. PERIOD!
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To my 50 cents: Been reading the Brady Campaign Against Gun Ownership again have you? Every time someone passes pro-gun laws, the Brady Bunch start hollering "WILD WEST SHOOTOUTS IN THE STREET"! They have been proven wrong every time. If open carry caused shootouts then 44 states would be having the shootouts daily. Fourty Four States already allow it. The ONLY places we have street shootouts is in the RESTRICTED ANTI-GUN STATES AND CITIES. Look at Chicago, Washington DC, New York, THE ENTIRE STATE OF CALIFORNIA....I could go on, but you obviously stopped reading when the truth was stated.
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