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Gun-packing in Texas took another step toward something that makes me quite uncomfortable with passage by the state Senate of a bill allowing licensed concealed-carry permit holders to pack heat in the open.<\/p>\n

Man, this one give me the heeby-jeebies.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/03\/16\/texas-senate-considers-key-gun-bill\/<\/p>\n

Senate Bill 17 passed 20-11 in the Senate. Republicans supported it, Democrats opposed it.<\/p>\n

It allows those who already have a concealed carry permit to strap a gun on their holster and display it in the open, kind of the way they did in the Old West days — which made the Old West a much safer place than it we have today, correct?<\/p>\n

A four-hour debate ensued before the Senate voted for it. One of the more interesting comments came from the “dean” of the Senate, Democrat John Whitmire of Houston, who’s hardly a squishy liberal. He argued in vain for an amendment that would ban carrying openly in the State Capitol. Why? Well, he said the\u00a0Criminal Justice\u00a0Committee he chairs often gets unstable witnesses testifying before it and he fears someone might pull out a gun and start blazing away.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/senate-open-carry-debate-lacked-firepower<\/p>\n

The Texas Tribune reported Whitmire’s comments this way: “Relating his experiences dealing with angry or mentally ill individuals before his committee, Whitmire said it would now be easy for such a person to grab handgun out of a holster to use it to attack bystanders.<\/p>\n

\u201c’It\u2019s dead wrong \u2026 to say there\u2019s not disturbed people in this building,’ said Whitmire, who chairs the Criminal Justice committee. ‘It\u2019s not if it\u2019s going to happen it\u2019s when it\u2019s going to happen, and you know it and I know it.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Craig Estes, R-Wichita Falls, called Whitmire’s scenario “far-fetched.”<\/p>\n

Interesting. OK, assume it’s far-fetched. Does that somehow justify allowing just one individual to twist off in a rage that results in gunfire?<\/p>\n

What am I missing here?<\/p>\n

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Gun-packing in Texas took another step toward something that makes me quite uncomfortable with passage by the state Senate of a bill allowing licensed concealed-carry permit holders to pack heat in the open. Man, this one give me the heeby-jeebies. http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/03\/16\/texas-senate-considers-key-gun-bill\/ Senate Bill 17 passed 20-11 in the Senate. Republicans supported it, Democrats opposed it. … Continue reading Open-carry in Texas? Let's talk about this one<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1099,1192,2029,2560,3429,4701,4709],"class_list":["post-8615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-concealed-handgun-carry","tag-criminal-justice-committee","tag-gun-laws","tag-john-whitmire","tag-open-carry-legislation","tag-texas-senate","tag-texas-state-capitol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}