Open carry laws allow handguns to be carried openly - provided the gun-owner owns his gun legally and subject to some restricted places. The state of the cowboys, Texas, is one of only six states that do not have such laws. The cowboys are not pleased and want to be treated like people in most other states. The cowboys want to carry guns in plain view.
A group called the Texas Citizen Defense League is backing an online petition, with over 3,500 signatories, asking for a law permitting Texans to carry handguns openly. They feel that it is part of Texas' tradition. In the old days, as we can see in the movies, no self-respecting frontiersman would want to be seen dead without a holstered six-shooter. Some gunslingers even carried two, one on each side of the hip.
What do the Injuns have to say about all this, I wonder. Scalping was also a long-held tradition, I believe.
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A group called the Texas Citizen Defense League is backing an online petition, with over 3,500 signatories, asking for a law permitting Texans to carry handguns openly. They feel that it is part of Texas' tradition. In the old days, as we can see in the movies, no self-respecting frontiersman would want to be seen dead without a holstered six-shooter. Some gunslingers even carried two, one on each side of the hip.
What do the Injuns have to say about all this, I wonder. Scalping was also a long-held tradition, I believe.
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