Ah Texas! This weekend 9 people were killed when the real life Sons of Anarchy decided that Twin Peaks restaurant needed a real live shootout producing real DEAD bodies. But what will happen on that future date certain when all sorts of people will be able to openly sling guns? The bill to allow open carry of handguns is working its way through the Texas legislature right now.
Open carry activists say shoot outs will be rare to nonexistent because guns on hips will make us all more civil. And if trouble erupts all these good guys with guns (and of course no bad guys will be wearing guns right?) will "handle-up" on the problem. How all the good guys with guns will know who exactly the bad guys with guns are, no one knows, they just will. You see?
Of course many Texas citizens are African-American and others are Hispanic and the open carry law will apply to them as well. But since only good guys will open-carry, White gun-slingers will know when they see a Black or Hispanic gun-slinger that she/he too is a goodly citizen and so what could go wrong there?
Then finally there are the cops. They have grown lazy you know. Yes it used to be that when they saw someone with a gun out, they could quickly come to the conclusion they were dealing with a bad guy or bad girl. That made them lazy. But now, with open carry coming, they will have to put down the damn donuts & really go to work to figure out amid the fire fight who the actual bad people are. But worry not dear Texas citizen as Steve Miller lyracized so well so long ago: They know "exactly what the facts is" cause they "make their living off of the people's taxes."
Wife and I are going to Austin in a few weeks. We'll be taking the Hybrid so we won't need a Waco gas stop. But soon the guns will be everywhere unless our Tejas solons soon come to the realization that the reason you have a civilization is so you DO NOT have to open carry