Potential open carry problems
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Until Texas revokes/invalidates "Concealed Carry," the "Open Carry" crowd will get no traction.
Texas must drift in the direction of the few States that allow "Constitutional Carry" without licensing schemes (which are just another form of registration).
That however, would require a change to the Texas Constitution where the Legislature reserves the right to regulate the bearing of Arms with a view to prevent violence.
That language is left over from Reconstruction where freed men were denied arms for self protection.
Texas must drift in the direction of the few States that allow "Constitutional Carry" without licensing schemes (which are just another form of registration).
That however, would require a change to the Texas Constitution where the Legislature reserves the right to regulate the bearing of Arms with a view to prevent violence.
That language is left over from Reconstruction where freed men were denied arms for self protection.
So we need to attack those laws for being racist. Anybody who opposes the change is also a racist.
Seems to be a good strategy for the left, why jot use it against them.
Seems to be a good strategy for the left, why jot use it against them.
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jordanmills
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I like it. Play on the gun control is racist angle.
Thegomezclan
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Need to watch "No guns for negros" on YouTube, talks about how they believe that gun control laws are racist.
Texas can allow Open Carry without requiring Constitutional Carry; and claiming it is an "all or none" matter means we're going to continue to have just the latter.
Only six states have true Constitutional Carry (in which the carrying of firearms, concealed or not, is generally not restricted by the law), one of which is only for residents and the other only for residents of Constitutional Carry states; hence not really making either truly "Constitutional Carry." In one more (Arkansas), the status of open carry in is currently in dispute. A bill enacted in July 2013 decriminalized open or concealed carrying of a loaded handgun without demonstration of malicious intent; however, the same law did not repeal the ban on open carry or the licensing requirement for concealed carry. The Arkansas Attorney General issued a non-binding opinion that the law enacted in July 2013 was intended to protect from prosecution people carrying firearms while traveling through or across the state, and that open carry of a loaded handgun technically remains illegal, despite enactment of the new law.
Four more allow for carry without a license, but have restrictions therefore they too are not "Constitutional Carry."
So there are only really three states that have true "Constitutional Carry"...Alaska, Arizona and Vermont.
To expect Texas to jump from its current requirements to none at all is very unrealistic; and to claim that open carry cannot exist without Constitutional Carry is not true. We can and will progress forward, but it will be incremental and must be done smartly (i.e. without idiotic antics such as those of of OCT).
Blind Sniper
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That was the main reason behind MI's law that all pistols have to be registered with the state. Keep guns out of the hands of those who need them by making it even more expensive to get them (under the guise of lowering crime rates - which at the time were rather low already), and then keep records of who owns what in case things go sideways. And what has it done for our crime rates in the decades since? Absolutely nothing positive.
