The Texas State Senate has now passed a new bill that would make it legal for all citizens to carry handguns in the state without a permit of any kind.
As The Hill reports:
The legislation passed by an 18-13 margin along party lines Wednesday evening. The bill would allow people 21 and older who can already legally own a gun to carry a handgun in public without the license, safety course and background check current law requires.
The bill now heads to the House, which passed similar legislation earlier this year but will not consider changes the Senate made to the bill before sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) desk.
The Senate passage of the legislation marks a significant victory for gun rights activists and Republicans, who had seen permitless carry legislation go nowhere in previous legislative sessions.
“HB 1927 would recognize the United States Constitution as our permit to carry and allow all law-abiding adults, aged 21 years or older, to carry a handgun for the protection of themselves or their families, in public places, in a holster, without the requirement of a state-issued license,” said state Sen. Charles Schwertner (R), a sponsor of the bill.
Democrats claim the bill is ‘dangerous’ yet it seems likely many Texans see the legislation as an appropriate response to the large spike in crime that has occurred across the country in the wake of the Black Lives Matter fueled riots over the death of George Floyd, something many Democrats expressed consistent support for.
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Yes sir all states should take tbis bill up every person should be able to carry as long as there law biding no felonys . We need to stand for our rights . Hell yes do it big texas
This still does NOT conform to the Constitution!!!!! ‘shall not be infringed’ is pretty wide ranging!
All of the states should pass the constitutional carry law
Hooray TX, awesome Bravo
Now time north and south Carolina follows suit. If they got the balls to tell democrats to shove it.
“An armed society is a polite society.”
“When only the police have guns it is called a Police State.”
“An armed man is a Citizen; an unarmed man is a Subject.”
“Gun control is not about Guns, it is about Control.”
Indisputable truths from wiser men than I.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Go Texas, go Texas.
Look at it this way, the police can’t be anywhere needed in the seconds some people have to protect their family and themselves. When seconds count, the police respond in minutes. Think about it, you wouldn’t consider the police as powerful as God, but even God doesn’t help a person who’s not willing to help himself.
You are exactly right. For example, just the other day in Portland, OR, Antifa stopped a guy driving his van, shot out all of the tires and the back window all for doing absolutely nothing wrong. There were NO POLICE around, at the time, and never showed up. Had Oregon had the same gun laws, there would be some justice to these thugs called “SELF DEFENSE.” Proud of Texas.
Our Constitution provides “we the people” with a right to bear arms, and that right should never be abridged. Now, I understand that there are people (such as the mentally unstable) who should not be permitted to bear such arms especially when given their inability to fully comprehend their surroundings. And I will even go so far as to hold that those individuals who have been convicted of a crime should be permitted to bear arms (unless their conviction involved a firearm). These issues are not defined in the Constitution, but through the Congress and Senate. There can be issues regarding sufficient gun laws, but there should never be an issue as to the Constitutional provision giving us the right to bear arms.
Until early in the 1900s, when convicted felons, when released from prison were handed their firearms when the left the prisons.
Then the democrats decided that INSTEAD OF PUNISHMENT they would ‘REHABILITATE’ the prisoners so they would be smarted up enough to act like humans.
It is PAST TIME TO STOP THAT SILLINESS and begin with HARSH PUNISHMENT to make prison a HATED PLACE they never want to see the inside of again!
Everything ‘bigger & better’ in Texas, including the Second Amendment, there’s nothing in the Constitution, preventing states from expanding “constitutional-rights”…bet the frickking O’bidet-minders didn’t 👀 this, coming‼️🤣
I like it well done
I can’t believe it! You mean that Texas now has a “carry” law and the “most” western state of New Mexico does NOT! I say “most” western state, because it was probably the very last state (now in the Union) that slowly became civilized, in the way that the other states were. We, in New Mexico, are more “western” but we cannot carry a gun? Just why the hell not, people? Do you think it may have anything at all to do with the idiot, anti American governor we now have? You think that’s possible?
Start asking:
WHO MADE GOVENMENT MORE POWERFUL THAN THE PEOPLE THAT CEDED LIMITED POWER TO OVERSEE THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND KEEP THE STREETS SAFE?”
governments were NOT CREATED to be all powerful and very limited in their scope.
Remember The Alamo
maybe other states will wake up and follow Texas????? is that too much to ask???? i am shure the Democraps are madder that a wet cat on a hot tin roof.
Just a sec…
My Crystal Ball is filling with a vaporous cloud of mystic energy. I see….a Texas television news anchor. Her face is a mask of terror and sadness. I hear her saying something in a commanding voice: One of those unlicensed gun owners entered a playground full of illegal alien gay/transgender children, who all lost their parents during a mass shooting at an illegal alien sanctuary gay bar, where an unlicensed gun was used by some white guy to kill as many Mexicans as he could due to his Hate, and to protest late term abortions. (He also voted for TRUMP! OMG!!!) During the report, several congressional representatives have joined this reporter in their determination to end gun violence, and disarm the American people!! What possible justification for that measure could be more valid?!
ALL STATES SHOULD PASS LAWS that basically states “The Constitution IS THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND, and the BILL OF RIGHTS ARE SACROSANCT”
With HARSH PENALTIES for any Infringement, that TREADS UPON THE RIGHTS OF THE CITIZENS, NO MATTER HOW SLIGHT from IMMEDIATE REMOVAL FROM OFFICE, to prison terms up to AND INCLUDING the Death Penalty.
Governments were CREATED by the People to see to the day to day necessities of life to FREE THE CITIZENS from the mundane tasks of the infrastructure.
PRIMARY WAS TO KEEP THE STREETS SAFE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
Fixing potholes and maintaining the infrastructure.
WE, THE PEOPLE CEDED none of our power TO THE GOVERNMENTS for the government was made of Citizens themselves.
WE, THE PEOPLE still have the indisputable RIGHT OF KEEPING OUR STREETS SAFE should the government employees FAIL IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES!
Nor did we ABSOLVE THE MISCREANTS IN GOVERNMENT from any APPROPRIATE FAILURES IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR OBLIGATIONS TO THE PEOPLE!
It IS NOT “vigilante JUSTICE” if the government ACTIVELY REFUSES and/or SIDES WITH THE ENEMIES OF PEACEFUL STREETS!
It will be interesting how the liberals respond to this. Just keep in mind that what the Constitution says will not impinge on their secision.
We have had carry without a license for years here in West Virginia. Where have you been Texas??
As a former LEO, Vet and CHL carrier I think this was a BIG mistake. Also, I think GUN GRABBERS are behind it. why. cause With my life’s experience I KNOW Humans are sometimes STUPID. This WILL end up with us ALL losing our 2A rights. Someone, or a bunch of someones, will do very dumb things that will FORCE law makers to further restrict our gun rights. From just Drawing a weapon in an argument, at an accident or while DRINKING and “Just playing around”. With NO background checks, No mental Checks and No instructions as to the laws or how to USE a gun people WILL GET HURT. Also, as a person WITH combat training I have found that an inexperienced person will just shoot wildly without taking into consideration the people around the target, OR, may shoot at said target without a “GOOD REASON OR JUSTIFICATION”.. NOT GOOD. It will end up with us ALL losing our rights……because of a few UNTRAINED, UNINFORMED morons that think this is still the “Old West”.
Having said that, I hope everyone thinks REAL HARD about what could happen.
For someone with your credentials you sure are ignorant of 2nd Amendment Rights. How do you lose an inalienable Right?
That’s the way the Constitution in the second amendment states it, as citizens we should never have the right to keep and bear arms infringed upon!
The 2A is a good thing and THIS is more good news!
I laugh when I hear BLM mentioned in any news story anymore. The BLM is a group of Marxist Organizers that have zero interest in helping blacks or anybody else. They get their stupid manifesto from communist killers and the dumba$$ Weather Underground from the 60’s. Their stated goal is to overthrow our gov’t and end capitalism. Yet the hypocrite leaders of said group are buying mansions and spending millions on themselves with the money that misguided corporate business suck-ups and mindless loser do nothings contribute to them. Wake Up Folks, they don’t care about you, George Floyd, or anybody else. They are simply another form of liberal elite out to get theirs and at the same time ensure you DON’T get yours. It’s simply tragic to watch these greedy losers “hose” a clueless portion of our society with smoke and mirrors…cause that’s all they are…no substance at all.
Those who believe their stinking pile of rhetoric are doomed in life.
Hooray for the Constitution of the USA. ‘Shall not be infringed’!!!!!!
Finally a state passes a law that supports the Constitution and the second amendment. This still does NOT conform to the Constitution!!!!! ‘shall not be infringed’ is pretty wide ranging!