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Comfortably_Numb

(3,809 posts)
Wed May 5, 2021, 07:32 PM May 2021

Yee haw !!!! Gawd damn Texas...f*ck this state... sideways with a pine cone.

AUSTIN, Texas -- The Republican-led effort to allow Texans to carry handguns without any kind of license cleared what is likely its biggest remaining hurdle in the Capitol on Wednesday, when the Texas Senate moved in a nail-biter vote to bring the measure to the floor and then gave it preliminary approval.

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NCjack

(10,279 posts)
1. Everyone in Texas is carryin'. If you are not carryin' and go into a bar,
Wed May 5, 2021, 07:36 PM
May 2021

there is a person who is carryin' two, compensating for you.

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
2. We briefly lived in Houston, Texas many moons ago... about 40 years ago...
Wed May 5, 2021, 07:41 PM
May 2021


I remember the local watering hole had a sign that guns should be left at the bar.. the bar was always full of guns.. yuck.

Beachnutt

(7,324 posts)
3. Without a permit everybody will carry one all nationalities
Wed May 5, 2021, 07:44 PM
May 2021

that'll make thr trumpers head spin...
a women in a berka with a gun on or a group of young black folks or some non english speaking asians or hispanics with a 44 magnum strapped on.
trumpers are so stupid...

Comfortably_Numb

(3,809 posts)
4. I'm going to take that notion as the proverbial "silver lining". Anything
Wed May 5, 2021, 08:05 PM
May 2021

that gives our reich wing gov and his dopey deputy a case of the red ass is great news! When bubbas with truck nuts harass the folks you mention and start paying for it, gov trump fluffer will eat a shit sandwich...

nature-lover

(1,469 posts)
6. I am not assuming it's a good guy with a gun when I see someone carrying in Walmart.
Wed May 5, 2021, 08:17 PM
May 2021

I call both my TX state senator and rep. a couple of weeks ago to tell them how irresponsible and stupid this is.

Comfortably_Numb

(3,809 posts)
8. You might be well advised to do so. Isn't that something???
Wed May 5, 2021, 08:31 PM
May 2021

A red state failed state where decent people are anxious about even going outside. I haven’t heard much about the DPS/HPD and other law enforcement task force that is supposed to deal with the rash of road rage gun violence in the Houston area.. I’m sure it’s going swimmingly.

Comfortably_Numb

(3,809 posts)
10. Good question. I do know you can't carry in the moron habitat,
Thu May 6, 2021, 09:38 AM
May 2021

I mean capitol building. Hypocrites. Chicken shit hypocrites.

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