TX Laws Loosening Gun Rules Go Into Affect Day After Shootings

TPM Article Topics
42

LoL.

43

As we changed how our society looks upon tobacco use so we need to alter how firearms are viewed.

Making Americans feel “un-cool” about something carries great weight.

44

Is it just me? or does naming an assault rifle “Bushmaster” seem like a too on the nose gimmick for appealing to the psycho-sexual inadequacies a certain subset of American males given the overt phallic nature of said “bushmaster”?

3 Likes
45

Eight gun laws in Texas relaxing restrictions on firearms went into effect on Sunday, the day after several shootings in the state on Saturday left at least 7 people dead and 21 injured.

  1. It’s Texas (which has been governed by a Republican Majority since 1994)

  2. It’s stupid (see item #1)

  3. It will change (and sooner then people think).

Is Texas finally turning blue? We looked at the electorate to find out.

By Juan Carlos Huerta andBeatriz Cuartas December 18, 2018

This fall…Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas, came much closer to unseating incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz than seemed possible a year ago…Democrats picked up 12 seats in the Texas House, two seats in the Texas Senate and two seats in the U.S. House, and came close in several statewide races.

1 Like
46

So sad they just had a recent outbreak of video games and mental illness.

4 Likes
47

In Texas, if you won’t need a gun to create mass carnage. You need only set up situation of fear in a dark crowded area to trigger the good guys to start shooting each other, each thinking somebody else is the bad guy.

48

If you can’t drive or shop at WalMart any longer, is life worth living in TX?

49

To be fair, that’s not really true…the GGWAG will basically run like everyone else when shots are fired, because it’s the smart thing to do. They think they will whip their pistol out and blast away, but the reality is that they are like everyone else and will run like hell if they get the chance. It’s more likely they will freeze or shoot the wrong person if they feel cornered (studies have shown this clearly).

I’d rather we fix the problem of guns without any more mass killings, even of the gun nuts who have made the problem so bad…it may take a shootout at a gun show or something similarly horrific to get them onboard with some gun control. Or, really, just get a bunch of armed black people out, gun control will happen in a few days if we get a black army marching through the street. 2nd be dammed.

3 Likes
50

No, Mother Jones has it correct. It often takes time after the passage and signing of the law for it to go into effect. What we are seeing here is the laws passed previously now coming into effect.

1 Like
51

Remember that guy who claimed to be a SEAL on the YouTube, a self-annointed GGWAG, who was caught in that Las Vegas mass shooting. He did exactly zippity do dah.

3 Likes
52

Exactly - just as has happened in so many of the mass killings we’ve seen.

53

I am an old guy, and I remember all of this very clearly as I lived in CA at the time

Throughout the late 1960s, the militant black nationalist group used their understanding of the finer details of California’s gun laws to underscore their political statements about the subjugation of African-Americans. In 1967, 30 members of the Black Panthers protested on the steps of the California statehouse armed with .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns and .45-caliber pistols and announced, “The time has come for black people to arm themselves.”

The display so frightened politicians—including California governor Ronald Reagan—that it helped to pass the Mulford Act, a state bill prohibiting the open carry of loaded firearms, along with an addendum prohibiting loaded firearms in the state Capitol. The 1967 bill took California down the path to having some of the strictest gun laws in America and helped jumpstart a surge of national gun control restrictions.

“The law was part of a wave of laws that were passed in the late 1960s regulating guns, especially to target African-Americans,” says Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms . “Including the Gun Control Act of 1968, which adopted new laws prohibiting certain people from owning guns, providing for beefed up licensing and inspections of gun dealers and restricting the importation of cheap Saturday night specials [pocket pistols] that were popular in some urban communities.”

2 Likes
54

You’re probably right, but it’s too easy to employ dime-store Freud in these instances.
Can’t get more phallic than a gun I suppose.

55

and are provided a legal defense if they bring firearms to a place that bans them if they did so unknowingly and leave when asked.

I wonder if that includes the State House? When they passed the concealed carry law, the legislature made sure the house was one of those banned places. Frankly, these people are playing into the hands of the open carry anything crowd. Considering Texas passed both no-knock warrants AND castle doctrine laws, the state is bound to be more gun-happy, shoot-em-up than ever.

But, they will blame bad parenting, video games and movies for more shootings… stupid fukn idiots.

2 Likes
56

Yep, that is exactly what I was referring to, and I’d expect the same reaction again. Presuming the protesters weren’t just shot on sight by the police just for walking around with a gun expressing their 2nd Amendment rights…

1 Like
57

A problem the GGWAG crowd’s fantasies is that when the police show up, they don’t know who the shooter is OR if there is only one.

Even people who are supposed to be there dealing with crises are in danger:

58

Yeah, and he tried lying about afterward.

59

Brilliant! I hope you don’t mind if I steal that. Oops, too late, I already did!