March 24, 2015 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
So this happened.
The Texas Lege is hearing testimony on Open Carry. Here is one man’s testimony. He was testifying for open carry but makes a man good argument against it.
He spent 17 and a half years in prison and needs a gun to protect himself.
Be sure to listen carefully as they leave the table.
His name is William Brown III and he wants a gun, dammit.
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1Who are we to question the wisdom of the founding fathers, who put no restrictions on gun ownership in the 2nd amendment, apparently intending for well regulated criminals to own and carry their muskets without infringement?
2Along the lines of Rick, I support the right of anyone to carry a bayonet, musket or cannon, as guaranteed by our constitution.
3The enemy is ignorance.
4Ex-con wants unlicensed open carry (how DARE you deny me!), mother of two doesn’t. Let’s see which way the wind is blowing… I’d put a finger up to test it but I’m afraid it’d get shot off.
5How dumb you ask? Dumb enough to have “aten” a sandwich “out of a bowl” it seems…
6he can open carry a bow & arrows
7I would have asked that guy how he feels about the guys he is so afraid of having unfettered access to guns.
8So much for “good guys” with guns stopping bad guys with same. Pretty sure convicted felons don’t qualify as the former.
9I’m not so sure the Founders didn’t see musket ownership as a benign way to keep the shallow end of the gene pool cleaned out. Then and increasing population and technological advances invalidated their plan. Just a thought.
10Well, if that doesn’t make the case, I don’t know what does.
11Gotta wonder what the seventeen and half years was for, not for being a good guy I’d be inclined to wager.
12I’m with Alan. If a guy who was in jail for 17 years thinks he deserves to carry a gun around, and how dare you deny him, who exactly does he think does not merit a gun? And how are we supposed to decide once we go that far down the Everybody path?
13Wonder if the mother of two was searched for tampons before being allowed into the lege. Can’t have crazy-ass women launching missiles at wingnuts. Of course,there had to be some good ole boys with weepons close by to subdue her before she got off her first missile.
Wingnuts-the trouble you get is only what you deserve.
14They also are considering allowing students to carry guns on school campuses all over the state.
President Obama’s niece plays college basketball for Princeton.
They currently are in the NCAA women’s tournament in Maryland.
Yesterday she received a threat on her life. Guy supposedly had taken a Glock to the ball game. She spent her tournament time..yesterday… not on the basketball court, but in her team’s locker room.
So.. is this the future of college sports in Texas?
Can’t beat them on the playing field…. send death threats??
Princeton won by ten points.
The ex-felon made the mother’s case….IMHO.
15How on earth did this guy even get to speak? Was he just the first one to put his name on a list or what? You would think there might have been some type of screening going on – especially by those who are in favor of open carry. Even they can’t imagine this was a great PR moment for them.
16Miemaw –
It would only be our college athletes at risk, which, since they are amateurs, and like women and children are unpaid, exhibit no current monetary value to conservative legislators.
The NFL however is a non-profit private fiefdom, with stadiums paid for by municipalities (wait, how does that happen?), but allowed to outlaw guns on their property (reminder, paid for by municipalities), even in states that allow concealed carry and open carry. And guess what? Gun owners and the NRA haven’t peeped.
Best estimate is that 10-20% of fans in pro football stadiums on Sunday are legally drunk. Can’t comment on whether this is a better argument for carry, or not carry in sports stadiums.
PS – Bonus paradoxical comment: Go Pack Go!
17So, what these folks propose is that drug cartel members and terrorists should be able to openly carry weapons? Tell that to the children of the woman recently shot to death while using her body to shield her children from the bullets being sprayed around during a gang shootout.
Hate to break this news to the gun nuts, but the drug gangs routinely fight gun battles with each other – if they see a citizen walking down the street openly carrying a gun, they’ll shoot that citizen and take their gun.
18@Rick, so have they assayed the BACs on a TX college campus -ANY Tx college campus!!-lately? Yeah, I didn’t think so…
19Well, let’s see here. The sane, rational lady who presented cogent, well researched facts, in the interest of protecting her children – vs – a convicted felon who sees the dark lords of hallucinatory evil behind every other traffic light, and who would feel naked without being able to open-carry enough lethal, armor-piercing weaponry to blast his way (into and) out of any Dollar Store, at any time. Hmmm. Sorry lady. The odds are not in your favor here. The GOTP lawmakers will be making the final decision.
20Princeton lost their second game to Maryland. Pres O was there plus two from SCOTUS. Nope, not Scalia and Thomas. (Ugh. Wouldn’t that just make everyone’s skin crawl, those two old pervs watching nubile young women play basketball? Icky.) It was the 2 Princeton alums, Kagan and Sotomayor.
BTW, that loss was Princeton’s first this year. Outstanding, you Tigers!
21She sure got on him there at the end about being rude, didn’t she? I’m sure he’ll think twice before he cops that sort of attitude again. (lol?)
22I am courageous enough, brave enough, with sufficient intestinal fortitude to go to the grocery store without a gun. And I am a gray-headed old man.
I feel true sympathy for the poor timid cowards who are frightened to leave their homes without weapons. But there are millions of us who are quite comfortable shopping for groceries without fire arms to defend us from the pancake mix or the dairy products. The only difference between us and them is bravery. We’ve got it, they don’t.
We need a Wizard of Oz trick to give these cowardly lions some courage.
23Liberty is a vital thing in our democracy. Benjamin Franklin said that those that would be willing to surrender their liberty for a little security deserve neither. Of course, the antithesis to this statement is the fact that when people see liberty at its absolute batpooh crazy extreme they might be willing to forgo the whole thing.
This is what the gun lobby fails to understand. When you oppose reasonable and common sense regulation you only open the door for full scale you have no rights regulation. Of course, while they debate whether or not some redneck hick should be able to bring a bazooka into church, our schools, roads, and water systems are going to heck in a handbasket. It’s the priorities that really boggle the mind.
24I think the state should let him open carry. It will make it easier for the feds to pick him up for felon-in-possession.
25I was raised with the 2nd Amendment being totally in effect and I’ve never felt as unsafe as I’ve felt since the fools began doing “Open Carry” events.
The NRA should be ashamed of themselves, as should any legislature that allows these fools to hijack the conversation about public safety. There’s a reason why the sheriffs in “cow towns” had the boys drop their handguns at the office before going out to get drunk.
26Good thoughts here! As usual. Got accused of being a snob recently when I mentioned that I grew up in a hunting culture that used weapons only for hunting and that any surplus of game acquired in such an effort was given to soup kitchens and pantries that fed the poor. Actually, I think that what set off that reaction actually was when I opined that other than hunting I just couldn’t see the need for personal super-sized armories. The rest of the folks around me in that culture thought that generosity was the better part of hunting. Don’t see any generosity involved in amassing enough weapons to start a war. But, meh, that’s just me.
27If the right to carry a firearm is SO important, does losing that right deter the criminals from commiting a crime?
The right to vote, that should be returned. Right to carry, notso much.
BTW: kudos to the mom for not being a chicken-poop coward sitting near that whackjob. I know that low rent districts have rough characters,but some of them MUST be safe enough to walk unarmed…
28Debbo-how’s this for a hat trick-Minnesota Viking linebacker,from the University of iowa,from South Dakota won the NFLs Byron “Whizzer” White award for community service and a 100 grand for his charity that enables kids to get medical care in Minnesota.He has already raised a million three. Chad Greenway played 9 man football in SD and was recruited to iowa as an athlete. Tore a knee in his first year at iowa. Tore a knee in his first Vikings pre season game as a rookie.
29That’s good to hear. He’s highly regarded here. Translate that to Not a Guy Who Beats His Toddler Child Bloody and Abandons Unknown Numbers of His Other Children Across the Nation. (Not Peterson)
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