SG>You mean you don't know? Say you're on your way to the range, in which
 SG>case you're allowed to have a handgun with you, or you're "travelling",
 SG>and you get pulled over for a busted tail light or something similar. If
 SG>you have a handgun on the seat next to you or in a visible holster when
 SG>he walks up to your car, what's he going to do?
 DA> Oh fer cryin' out loud.  You're afraid of a cop who comes across
 "Afraid?"  Note the explanation of his local law.
 DA> someone who is exercising his rights.  What kind of society is it
 DA> where we have to fear cops when we are lawfully exercising our
 DA> rights?  If you are correct, and you mean we DO have to fear cops
 DA> when we exercise our rights, then our society is too far gone already.
 DA> Not only that, but you are fostering or at least tolerating the
 DA> notion that only bad guys are armed.
 
 I'm going to disagree that Steve is either "fostering" or "tolerating."
 He might, however, be unwilling to act contrary to the law(s) he has to
 live with.  While we might act otherwise, I don't think we can decide
 what is the appropriate choices for somebody else.
 DA> I don't understand why so many Texans have gotten so prissy over
 DA> carrying a firearm. (I think you guys shot yourself in the foot
 Because the prissy ones aren't, in the main, Texans.  Texas experiences
 significant in-migration from other places, many from the northeast.
 And a lot of northeast bull quano comes with the migrants.  Look at any
 of the restrictions on firearms in any of the rustbelt states -- those
 are the attitudes that are brought to Texas, as well as other states in
 the west and southwest by those immigrants.
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