{"id":8632,"date":"2015-03-18T14:50:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T14:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8632"},"modified":"2015-03-18T14:50:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T14:50:03","slug":"an-interesting-argument-on-open-carry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8632","title":{"rendered":"An interesting argument on open-carry &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Many of my friends, acquaintances and colleagues seem to think I live, breathe, eat, drink and smell politics and policy &#8230; 24\/7. Most of them know that I once was a full-time print journalist whose job was to stay abreast of these things.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all they want to discuss with me. That and my granddaughter.<\/p>\n<p>A friend and colleague, though, posed an interesting notion this week about the proposal in the Texas Legislature to allow Texans to carry firearms openly, where everyone can see them.<\/p>\n<p>My friend told me he has a concealed-carry license and carries a gun, presumably where the sun doesn&#8217;t shine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think open-carry is a stupid idea,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Why? Because of something happens and someone starts shooting a gun, he&#8217;s going to shoot the guy with the gun. The individual who&#8217;s carrying openly becomes a target.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, yes?<\/p>\n<p>My friend wants the open-carry legislation to become law in Texas. He and I shared our views on it and I told him I remain concerned about it, although I perhaps could change my mind on it over time as I did &#8212; more or less &#8212; with the state&#8217;s concealed-carry law.<\/p>\n<p>I certainly will pray my friend&#8217;s concern about the <em>target<\/em> aspect of open-carry legislation doesn&#8217;t pan out.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/03\/18\/brief\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of my friends, acquaintances and colleagues seem to think I live, breathe, eat, drink and smell politics and policy &#8230; 24\/7. Most of them know that I once was a full-time print journalist whose job was to stay abreast of these things. That&#8217;s all they want to discuss with me. That and my granddaughter. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8632\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An interesting argument on open-carry &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1099,2026,2034,3429,4653],"class_list":["post-8632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-concealed-handgun-carry","tag-gun-control-laws","tag-gun-rights","tag-open-carry-legislation","tag-texas-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632","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=8632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}