Right after Attorney General Greg Abbott sent a welcome to Yankees to come on down to Texas, the owner of a bank in Chappell Hill took in the welcome mat.

Ed Says, "Damn Yankees!"

A bank in the small Texas town of Chappell Hill is inviting customers to bring in concealed handguns because it has been robbed five times, “all of them by Yankees.”

“You never know who’s sitting in this bank,” Chappell Hill Bank President Ed Smith told KHOU. “If you’re coming in to rob it, I think you’re going to be in a world of hurt.”

Maybe Ole Banker Ed needs needs to stock up on confederate currency.

And Banker Ed is a bit of a political problem solver, too.

The bank president also suggested that new gun control laws were not the way to prevent mass shootings like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

“Everybody wants the government to do something,” Smith opined. “People need to do things for themselves.”

Yeah, come to think of it, those kids in Sandy Hook did a pretty poor job of taking care of themselves.

Thanks to Irene for the heads up.