It seems that to be a proper Open Carry gun crazy angry white person you need to look just like Robert Zimmerman or Charlie Manson. When you see anyone with an assault rifle in hand call the police, just like you would do if they were black. Anger, guns and stupid is always a dangerous mix.
“It is your job, legislators, to make things right. It is our job to empower you, and empower you we will. We will stand behind you every step of this journey and, Lord willing, should the need every arise, we will even stand in front of you.” Patrick Cook from one of the many open carry gun right organizations that descended upon the Texas State Capital on opening of the 2015 legislature
The hope, with the “Lord Willing”, is that we can stand in front of defenders of the 2nd Amendment and shoot anyone disagreeing with your right to openly carry a 9mm and an assault rifle in hand. Who do these stupid White men, with the Lord willing, hope to shoot first. What is the shooting order? I would suppose liberal gungrabbers come first – you know, the ones who want background checks at gun shows, waiting periods and limits on magazine size. Next would come unarmed African American men and boys – hard to shoot armed African Americans while hiding under a bed. Then comes FBI agents, ATF Agents, Federal Marshals, our troops and state and local police. And lastly but surely the unAmericans: Muslims, Hispanics, and anyone with a funny sounding name. Oh, and perhaps a homo or two.
Why is it that Texas is one of only a few states that does not presently have Open Carry laws? Well I looked it up. it’s because of Reconstruction and it’s 150 year legacy. Texans saw fit to make it against the law to carry guns so police could look the other way when white people had them and arrest any black person with a gun. A time before anyone took the EQUAL PROTECTION clause of the 14th Amendment seriously. So ending this old law will be a boon to the empowerment of African American men!
Well wait a minute. If you saw a couple black guys in front of your house holding handguns and assault rifles wouldn’t you call the police! Please to the same when you see stupid white men with guns doing the same. Nothing more dangerous than a mix of guns, anger and stupid.
I include the entire article here because of Houston Chronicle registration issues which suck.
AUSTIN – As dozens of armed open-carry activists descended on the state Capitol on Tuesday, disagreements between the disparate groups over how best to push their shared legislative agenda denigrated into bickering on social media and more than one confrontation with state lawmakers.
Outside the Capitol, the Lone Star State’s myriad open-carry advocacy groups were the picture of cooperation.Dozens of gun-toting Texans from at least three separate organizations gathered on the first day of the 2015 session to advocate for Rep. Jonathan Stickland’s House Bill 195, which would undo Texas’ 125-year ban on the open carrying of handguns.
“With your help, we are going to storm this Capitol and quit getting on our knees and asking for the Second Amendment back. We are going to take it back,” said Stickland, R-Bedford, who credited the Austin-based group Lone Star Gun Rights with gathering more than 15,000 petitions in support of his bill. “A lot of people have made campaign promises on this issue. It’s time for it to come to fruition.”
Inside the pink granite building was another story, however, as activists clashed with a handful of lawmakers and each other over tactics. At one point, staffers from Rep. Poncho Nevarez’s office asked members of the group Open Carry Tarrant County to leave after a confrontational during which they called the Eagle Pass Democrat a “tyrant to the Constitution” and said he “won’t be here very long.”
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“Y’all can walk outside now,” Nevarez is heard saying on a video of the incident posted on Facebook by Kory Watkins, the Tarrant County group’s leader. “You’re not welcome.”“It was intimidating and aggressive,” said CJ Grisham, who heads Open Carry Texas, a separate gun organization that disagrees with the Tarrant County group’s methods. “I witnessed it first-hand. I had to leave in disgust, and I mean this in all seriousness, I literally got sick in my stomach.”
Grisham echoed concerns from lobbyists and other activists, including former Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, that the Fort Worth group’s “intimidating” actions could derail efforts to pass open-carry legislation this year.
“I’m having to do damage control,” Grisham added, saying he tried to smooth things over Tuesday with staffers from three legislative offices hassled by other open-carry advocates. “What does it serve when your actions result in you getting kicked out of an office and then refusing to do so? … It’s just totally unprofessional and counterproductive.”
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Nevarez said later Tuesday that he never felt physically threatened by the activists, but had been “unnerved” to think some of them likely were carrying concealed weapons during the incident.
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“If there was ever a way to meaningfully talk about this bill, those people make it difficult,” said Nevarez, who said one individual “reeked” of marijuana. “It’s hard to have that discussion when people storm your office, and my kids are there, my guests are there, my in-laws are there.”As tempers flared inside, members of a third gun advocacy group braved the near-freezing cold outside to demonstrate the Ghost Gunner, a one-of-a-kind machine that can be programmed to automatically manufacture gun parts. The machine, designed by Austinite Cody Wilson and owned by Come and Take It America, still is in the prototype phase, but advocates said it would enable them to produce gun parts for personal use without the need for serial numbers or state or federal oversight.
“I think it’s a beautiful expression of our rights,” Patrick Cook said of the Ghost Gunner. Cook, a 1st lieutenant in the U.S. Army who survived the 2014 Fort Hood shooting, was in Austin to advocate for unlicensed open-carry legislation.
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“What is it called when someone takes by force what is rightfully yours and sells it back to you at a premium? You may call that a racket. You may call that a ransom, extortion, theft. You may call that a license,” said Cook, a Baltimore native who has called Texas home since 2011. “It is your job, legislators, to make things right. It is our job to empower you, and empower you we will. We will stand behind you every step of this journey and, Lord willing, should the need every arise, we will even stand in front of you.”
Republican lawmakers have filed several bills aimed at making Texas’ gun laws more permissive ahead of this year’s session. A handful of open-carry bills are included, as are bills that would legalize the licensed open carry of handguns, expanded concealed carry at sporting events and school board meetings, and a tax holiday for firearm and hunting supplies.
Gov.-elect Greg Abbott has said he would sign whatever open-carry bill reaches his desk.