{"id":8935,"date":"2015-04-15T03:29:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T03:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8935"},"modified":"2015-04-15T03:29:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T03:29:20","slug":"open-carry-still-causes-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8935","title":{"rendered":"Open-carry still causes concern"},"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>Concealed-handgun carry legislation was thought to be of concern when the 1995 Texas Legislature approved it.<\/p>\n<p>It has proved effective in at least one regard: Thinking that motorists might be carrying a gun with them has made other motorists a lot more circumspect if they get cut off on the street.<\/p>\n<p>Now the 2015 Legislature is considering an open-carry bill. This one give me pause.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/04\/14\/open-carry-bill-poised-clear-texas-house\/<\/p>\n<p>Why is that? I&#8217;m concerned about what some have indicated might become a problem &#8212; which is that someone carrying a handgun openly could become a target in the event shooting starts somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, yes? I share that concern.<\/p>\n<p>The bill got stalled today in the Texas House of Representatives on a procedural glitch. It&#8217;s likely to come up in a day or two and the House is likely to approve it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d bet real American cash that Gov. Greg Abbott would sign it if gets to his desk.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t alleviate my concern about open-carry legislation becoming a state law.<\/p>\n<p>I continue to wonder whether carrying guns openly on one&#8217;s holster created a safer society back in the old days when it was customary. Will the presence of guns being carried in the open today make us safer than the <em>belief<\/em> that someone is packing a pistol under his jacket or in her purse?<\/p>\n<p>I still have my doubts.<\/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>Concealed-handgun carry legislation was thought to be of concern when the 1995 Texas Legislature approved it. It has proved effective in at least one regard: Thinking that motorists might be carrying a gun with them has made other motorists a lot more circumspect if they get cut off on the street. Now the 2015 Legislature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8935\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open-carry still causes concern<\/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":[1099,2006,2025,2034,3427,4169,4653],"class_list":["post-8935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-concealed-handgun-carry","tag-greg-abbott","tag-gun-control","tag-gun-rights","tag-open-carry","tag-second-amendment","tag-texas-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935","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=8935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}