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HB195: Unlicensed carrying of a handgun

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“…HB195 is not limited to carrying a handgun openly. If it were to pass in its as-filed form, Texans could carry a handgun openly or concealed without a CHL.”

via HB195: Unlicensed carrying of a handgun.

Charles Cotton has posted a summary on HB195, a bill filed with the current Legislature authorizing the carrying of handguns openly or concealed, without a CHL in the state of Texas. But Cotton also lists a number of concerns about the bill as written that he indicates will create legal problems for gun owners. You can read more about those concerns here. –> https://www.texasfirearmscoalition.com/index.php/frontpage-articles/73-hb195-unlicensed-carrying-of-a-handgun

-GM

Muriel Bowser: ‘You have a mayor who hates guns’ – The Washington Post

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“You have a mayor who hates guns…If it was up to me, we wouldn’t have any handguns in the District of Columbia. I swear to protect the Constitution and what the courts say, but I will do it in the most restrictive way as possible.” – Muriel Bowser, Mayor, Washington, D.C.

via ‘You have a mayor who hates guns’ – The Washington Post.

Well, I’ll give her this much…At least Muriel Bowser is honest and upfront about it. She would ban all guns, given the chance. To hell with the People (all of them as opposed to just those who voted for her), the Constitution (you know, the law!) or the rulings of the United States Supreme Court, she’s just going to do it her way! That the seat of government in the “Free World” is a place that seeks to restrict freedom every chance it gets boggles the mind.

-GM

Armed customer stops restaurant robbery suspects in their tracks

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A customer is being called a hero after pulling a gun on two armed robbery suspects at a Houston restaurant.

via Armed customer stops restaurant robbery suspects in their tracks.

Gun-control proponents would have you believe this sort of thing NEVER happens. Instead they want you to believe the incident in Idaho a almost two weeks ago is something that happens every day. The reality is the opposite. With hundreds of thousands of people licensed to carry guns in Texas alone and several million more throughout the country, Veronica’s Rutledge’s death was indeed a tragedy worthy of coverage but, stories like the one above rarely make the news. There is profit to be had and an agenda being pursued in constantly supplying the public with tragic stories and frightening statistics even if they aren’t necessarily true.

GM

There’s No Such Thing As A Law-Abiding Gun Owner…

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Ms. Gunn-Barrett candidly laid bare a basic premise of the gun ban mindset that usually goes unspoken: there’s no such thing as a law-abiding gun owner.
“You can be perfectly law-abiding one moment,” said Ms. Gunn-Barrett during the debate, “and then the next moment you can be a criminal and do something criminal and wrong, like shoot up a movie theater, or kill your spouse during an argument.” Regulation of people and behavior is needed, she said, “to protect us against our own stupidity and our own irrationality.”

via There’s No Such Thing As A Law-Abiding Gun Owner?.

 

Those are the words of Leah Gunn-Barrett, Executive Director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence. As long as this is the other side of the conversation, there is NO common ground to be had. This is akin to ask a jihadist for a peaceful solution when he has clearly stated the only “good” outcome is death to all “infidels.” To her and others of her mindset, we are all just waiting to go off. We are all paranoid, borderline psychotic individuals who will lay waste to the world around is at any moment.

Gunn-Barrett recently debated Scott Bach at New York University in a class on culture wars according to his post at Ammoland.com. Gunn-Barrett contends, as many other gun-control proponents do, that guns constitute a public health crisis and that the United States Supreme Court was in error when they said the Second Amendment denotes an individual, rather than collective, right to keep and bear arms. She also says the NRA represents manufacturers for their financial benefit rather than championing the rights of its individual members. None of these claims or opinions should surprise us. We’ve heard them all before.

You can read more in Bach’s post over at Ammoland.com. There’s nothing ground breaking in Bach’s point made in the debate or in his article. Most of us would agree that one’s personal safety is your own responsibility and points out that the government has time and time again argued that they are not responsible for your personal safety. And yet, gun-control supporters continue the constant pursuit of ways to limit the rights and means by which one defends himself.

-GM