2aguy
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The ONLY "high crime rate areas are in the inner city shitholes controlled by fuckung gang bangers you stupid bitch.Do you have a point?OK, Wayne (Lapierre), here's your big chance to prove your theory about good guys with guns in a state more heavily and densely populated than NoDak or Wyoming.
I truly hope the restaurants and establishments serving liquor take it upon themselves to ban open carry guns from their respective establishments.
Texas Gears Up for New Open-Carry Handgun Law
Measure makes the state the most populous to allow the practice
Texas Gears Up for New Open-Carry Handgun Law
Updated Dec. 26, 2015 11:56 a.m. ET
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DALLAS—The owners of Gringo’s Mexican Kitchen are old hands at confronting the typical challenges of a burgeoning restaurant business—hiring, competition, even developing a “gluten guide.” But recently the Tex-Mex chain has been facing an unusual dilemma: whether to allow customers to openly display their guns while munching fajitas.
Come Jan. 1, licensed firearms owners in Texas will be able to openly carry a handgun in most places. A law signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this year will make Texas the most populous state in the U.S. to allow the practice, known as “open carry.”
Existing Texas law requires licensed gun owners to conceal their handguns so they aren’t in plain view. The new law will allow them to carry handguns openly, in belt or shoulder holsters.
But private businesses and other establishments have the right to ban open carry under the law, and many have been wrestling with how to proceed.
“We’re primarily a family environment in terms of our restaurant. And so we decided it’s probably best not to allow open carry,” said Al Flores, counsel for Gringo’s, which has 14 restaurants, mainly in the Houston area and surrounding counties. “We just felt that knowing our customers, allowing someone to walk in openly carrying a weapon, it would make them feel a little uncomfortable.”
One small restaurant chain has decided to not allow open carry. So fucking what?
What are you going to claim when the Texas open carry law passes and the gun murder rate committed by legal gun owners goes down or doesn't change?
Open Carry doesn't affect normal sane legal gun owners.
Just takes one abnormal, insane legal gun owner in a public place to ruin many, many lives.
I think it's a bad idea, and I know many gun-owning Houstonians who think it's a bad idea, too.
Do you understand how dumb your this post is.......the abnormal, insane killer.....is already shooting up places despite the gun free zone laws....the only people who can't carry guns in many public places are the ones not shooting people.........
An abnormal, insane person is going to ruin lives no matter what law you make.......especially if you make a place a gun free zone.....
My post is from the front page of the Wall Street Journal, a very conservative, right wing rag.
Houston is going to be the third largest city in the U.S. within another couple of years, and I am going to be living there myself by the middle of next year. My sig other carries three guns in his vehicle: glove, console and hidden area inside the dash that is accessed by pushing a button over his visor. And he's against open carry after living in Houston all his life. Ergo the WSJ's interest in this topic: Houston already has a high crime rate and everybody there has at least one gun on them.
Take away every illegal gun in those high crime areas and Houston becomes like every other city with no gang bangers. Quite and peaceful.
When you look at the stats some of these cities will report that gang violence only accounts for 40% of all the murders. The problem with this as I saw in one article on the topic, is that gang members often murder without regard to their work as gang members. The gang member will shoot someone at a party, or kill someone as they rob them or murder their girlfreind....and since they aren't caught doing it for the gang it doesn't count as "gang violence." The truth is that almost all murders are committted by people with long histories of violent crime, murdering other criminals during criminal activity.