This ought to make the Tea Baggers real happy:Under current state law, so-called "long guns" — rifles, shotguns and the like — will remain legal in the domed landmark if they are carried openly, in a non-threatening way.Yep, you read that correctly. You can take a shot gun to a hearing in the Capitol. Maybe you can carry a shotgun when the lobbyists for the insurance industry testifies on how low homeowners insurance rates are. Or when the electricity resellers say how low our rates are. Or when the heads of Texas University tries to justify their bloated college rates. The list could go on and on. Here is our wingnut Land Commissioner:
Whatever hearing you want to attend, just remember, you have the right to carry a shotgun into a hearing just as long as it is "carried openly, in a non-threatening way". And since we don't have enough money to police each hearing, gun toters could have a clear and easy target.
I think I will have to walk into the capitol with a shotgun just so I can say I was a hillbilly.
Hum....I guess this might be a good time to buy a shotgun.
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Just when you think Texas cant be more stupid, they push the envelope.
It is embarrassing.
go away greg.
Why is long-standing law suddenly a news story?
I can't wait to see next week's breaking story: "This just in: it is illegal to run a stop sign."
John, are you legally eligible for gun ownership?
That is none of your *&^%in business.
Who are you? The jack booted thugs of gun control?
Have you noticed where all of the recent mass shootings have occurred? All of them restricted all guns. Even Ft. Hood's disaster took place in a no gun zone.
Ever notice DC has the highest crime rate, and the strictest gun laws? That's not a coincidence. It's because criminals don't give a flying f*ck about gun laws. Therefore, gun restriction only disarm the law-abiding making them easy victims for criminals.
Could you point to where this post is "humor"? It seems more like an incitement to violence, or a threat to engage in it, against those who you have long opposed.
Perhaps this Texas idiot might like to know (or maybe not, but I digress), but with 3,981 violent crimes per million people in 2008, New York is a lot safer than Texas (5,079).
Maybe we'll all get lucky and everyone in the state will someday decide to shoot each other. or themselves.
Hum....I guess this might be a good time to buy a shotgun.
Why's that? What would you do with it?
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