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    https://www.facebook.com/events/186280508694456/

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    HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Criminal Jurisprudence TIME & DATE: 10:00 AM, Monday, June 25, 2018

    PLACE: E2.014 CHAIR: Rep. Joe Moody

    The committee will hear public testimony on the recently issued interim charges:

    Review the applicable portions of the state's penal laws and make legislative recommendations regarding whether existing protective order laws are sufficient or could be amended to include 'red flag' or mental health protective orders or whether 'red flag' or mental health protective orders should be independently created to allow law enforcement, a family member, a school employee, or a district attorney to file a petition seeking removal of firearms from a potentially dangerous person and providing for mental health treatment for the potentially dangerous person, while preserving the fundamental rights of the Second Amendment and ensuring due process.

    Examine current statutes designed to protect minors from accessing firearms without proper supervision and make recommendations to ensure responsible and safe firearm storage, including enhancing the penalty to a felony when unauthorized access results in death or bodily injury.

    LINK: https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/85R/schedules/html/C2202018062510001.HTM

    LEARN HOW TO TESTIFY: Even if it's your first time at a hearing - you can testify. You are the one most qualified to share your own opinion with our Texas legislature. Speak from the heart about your own beliefs. You can do it!

    Watch this video on how to navigate a hearing - including parking, getting into the Capitol, finding your hearing room, and what to expect:



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    ALL HANDS ON DECK!

    Please help us fight the dangerous proposals being discussed by the Texas Legislature -- including the new Red Flag and firearms storage plans.

    Join us for a CONFERENCE CALL tomorrow, Friday, to get all the details, learn how to participate in the hearing, and learn what to do even if you can't personally come to Austin. We'll go over talking points so you clearly understand the issues.

    **Texas Firearms Freedom Conference Call**
    Friday, June 22, at 8pm
    Call: (515) 604-9912
    Access Code: 140414#

    We'll discuss details about the LEGISLATIVE HEARING coming up on Monday, June 25, 10am, at the Texas Capitol in Austin.

    Sneak preview (it's not good): https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/85R/schedules/html/C2202018062510001.HTM

    Please help us spread the word to everyday Texans who care about their firearms freedoms. Like, comment, and SHARE this post!

    Thank you for doing all you can to help the cause of liberty!
     

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    The democrat fix is in for this hearing on red flag and storage laws.
    The committee chairman, Joe Moody, is a democrat and he is front loading the hearing with all the anti-gun speakers. Making all the pro-gun speakers wait till much later before they get a chance to speak.
     

    Southpaw

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    Not sure how many here were there or watched, but what was your overall impression? I had it on throughout the afternoon and it seems like there were just about 1 to 1 for and against, if not more against.
    Though that may not matter with some of the dolts on that committee.

    It seemed to me Moody's only move was trying to question the integrity of those that were against proposed red flag laws by having them say that they would not change any current laws in place.
     

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    It looked to me that nothing said changed anyone's mind and the ones listening where just there because they had to be.

    I am biassed but our side seemed to have good points and the other side was more MAKE IT SO BECAUSE its what we want and we know whats best for everyone.
     

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    It looked to me that nothing said changed anyone's mind and the ones listening where just there because they had to be.

    I am biassed but our side seemed to have good points and the other side was more MAKE IT SO BECAUSE its what we want and we know whats best for everyone.


    That about summed it up for me too. Once again our side brings logic, facts and reason and the left brings feelings and fear.
     

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    There are currently hearings to work on changing Texas safe storage laws, red flag laws (take away your guns without due process) and mental health laws going on right now in the capitol. The cards have been stacked against gun owners. We need to get involved.

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2116738878584440&id=100007450449882

    "A CALL TO ALL TEXAS GUN OWNERS!

    The one, irrevocable impression from yesterday's Gun Control hearings was that the deck was stacked against law-abiding gun owners. The entire hearing was a celebration of gun control catechism, punctuated by an occasional gun rights advocate.

    The Patriots were diligent and tried hard....but the tidal wave of the Governor's gun control simply overwhelmed them.

    So, Texas, I think you are in the fight of your life for your gun rights!

    The Governor has opened the flood gates of gun control and every crack-pot gun grabber has put a boat in the water.

    Warning! I'm fixin' to hold us to task, so anyone who cannot stomach that, needs to run away.

    1. Although almost none of the gungrabbers knew what they were talking about, several on our side were unprepared on the subjects. Conservative Witnesses, stumbled, stammered and were not in command of the facts. For instance, the chair and Rep. Canales beat the conservatives up on the subject of suicide, relying upon the study listed in foot note 54 of the Governor''s report. But only one person testifying had bothered to read the study.....little Amy Hedtke knew that the study was defective. Half a dozen witnesses failed to address it definitively.

    Solution? Our side needs an intelligence effort to develop al the information worth knowing, to carefully analyze the gun-grabbers data and citations, and to prepare stock responses. David Whitehead Jr.

    2. Our side was made up of excellent presenters.....except when it wasn't. It should be obvious to anyone carefully watching that the gun-grabbers started out with a RINO-turncoat, then carfully tendered school officials, judges and psychologists to make the same point. Shootings are all the fault of the gun.

    There was no central point to the pro-2nd Amendment witnesses....some rambled into irrelevancy while others were dead spot-on the issues. The pro-message was diluted by a lack of discipline in fire control. We need speakers with laser sharp minds and the communication skills of an old-time Baptist preacher.

    Solution: Our side needs to develop a group of witnesses who speak well, and are able to articulate our position utilizing the intelligence developed in #1 above.

    3. It was obvious that the Chair and the liberal witnesses had conferred.....their coordination was exceptional. One of our best witnesses was trapped by the Chair on the issue of existing family violence versus the Republican Party platform. Had our side had the necessary coordination, our witness would have known that two panels earlier, the Chair had insisted that testimony be limited to the two proposals by the Governor. Simply saying, "sir, I am not, at this time addressing existing Family Violence Orders, but limiting myself to the Governor's proposal at the insistence of the chair." Instead, our guy took some hits because no one was coordinating our speakers.

    Solution: Our side needs to coordinate speakers and inform them of the "status of the floor" before they speak. This is a battle, someone needs to be in tactical command.

    4. This Texas version of the Little Big Horn battle, should tell us that we have a long fight ahead. We have the Governor and the House against us. If the Senate falls, we will begin the descent into California-style gun control. Remember the State that now requires a background check to buy a box of .22's.....started with gun storage laws.

    Solution: Texas Gun Owners need one coordinated effort to push back against the Governor's gun control. The effort has to be intelligent, coordinated, and clever enough to defeat these rascals and scalawags.

    5. Gun Owners....and gun owner organizations need to face facts. You are about to lose your rights. You MUST focus on what is important. Talk of concealed carry and confronting ordinances in some little town that life-long Texans have not heard are distractions. The opposition is beginning the State-wide effort to deprive you of your firearms. You must fight back.

    Solution: Find, create, or cobble together one organization that will put forward our effort to kill these unconstitutional gun-grabbing effort. Yes, these efforts will all be defeated at the Supreme Court in a decade or so....BUT, how many Texans lives will be ruined before that happens.

    Friends, there are no second chances to stop this in it's tracks. Do not expect help from Government....organize and begin to bring pressure.

    Tyranny does not begin with the County Sheriff rolling down your road to seize your guns......it begins with hearings such as yesterday's.

    If you are really willing to fight.....this is a rough road map to doing it."
     

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    Archived video at this link.
    http://tlchouse.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=40&clip_id=15212

    Some notable testimony at the following timestamps

    Constable Gene Dolle 4:09:45

    Terry Holcomb 6:15:10

    Amy Hedtke 8:21:10

    CJ Grisham 9:17:55

    I really enjoyed Amy Hedtke's testimony.
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    The testimony was almost evenly split, but most of the pro-gun speakers were forced to wait hours before they had a chance to speak. Unfortunately it seems like the committee is in favor of more restrictions.
     
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