According to "Shirley" Jackson-Lee, permitless carry will result in "more folks just jumping out the window with a gun and coming after us."
What? Even she doesn't really know what she's saying.
Today, Gov. Abbott will sign HB 1927 into law.
Under the bill, anyone 21 years old or older who can legally possess a firearm in Texas can carry a handgun in public without a permit beginning September 1st.Current state law allows residents 21 or older to carry a handgun only after completing the required training and criminal background check to obtain a license to carry.
The soon to be new law also creates stiffer penalties for illegal weapons carried by felons and those convicted of family violence offenses.
Democrats like Sheila Jackson-Lee have used their same old, tired and worn-out platitudes about this resulting in more blood on the streets and more “Wild West” shootouts.
Last month, Fort Worth Star-Telegram Columnist Ryan Rusak dismantled the Democrat fearmongering pointing out that “every time Texas has expanded gun rights…predictions of “Wild West” shootouts have proved wrong. For three decades”.
“As the Texas Legislature considered a new gun law, a politician opposed to it predicted: “The only outcome of the passage of this bill will be more people killed by gunfire.” She blamed “a few legislators who appear intent on embarrassing this great state as a place where gun-toting vigilantes roam the streets.”
That was Gov. Ann Richards in 1993, discussing the right to carry a concealed handgun.
Next, it was a decorated military leader, warning that “there is great concern that the presence of handguns, even if limited to licensed individuals age 21 or older, will lead to an increase in both accidental shootings and self-inflicted wounds.”
That was retired Adm. William McRaven, then the chancellor of the University of Texas System, in 2015, on allowing licensees to carry weapons on college campuses.
“I hope we don’t have a host of Texans running around with a Rambo mentality,” that was former Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, when the Legislature approved open carry, also in 2015.
Seen any Sylvester Stallone doppelgangers lately?
The same super scary speculative scenarios are being trotted out again as the Legislature moves to allow the carrying a handgun without a license, or “constitutional carry,” as its proponents call it…
Every time Texas has expanded gun rights, though, predictions of “Wild West” shootouts have proved wrong. For three decades. From the early 1980s on, Texas has seen a steep drop in gun violence, even as laws such as concealed-carry took effect.”