Sipsey Street Irregulars: Bob Owens on the Texas law change. He is happier than Herschel Smith.

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Bob Owens on the Texas law change. He is happier than Herschel Smith.

From Bob Owens: Open Carry, Campus Carry Pass In Texas.

Contrast with Herschel's analysis: Communist Art Acevedo Kills Constitutional Carry In Texas

Meanwhile: Maine House Overwhelmingly Passes Constitutional Carry

5 comments:

Anonymous said...: In watching how legislatures are attempting to foil the judicial admissions that have happened at SCOTUS, I've notice the PUZZLING things taking place like the Maine constitutional carry permit elimination to the permit expansion in Texas. Seems a bit backward UNTIL you consider what is REALLY going on.

Some legislatures are looking at their own budgets and the the cost of trying to defend their gun control laws. Others are working in concert to block pathways to SCOTUS through conflicting circuit decisions. The gun control battle is being waged not in legislatures where we are led to believe. Indeed, the big con continues (we won we won so send us money!!!) within legislatures, as new "laws" coming online benefit the few while tightening the noose around the rest of our necks by cementing the PREMISE of gubmint control (accepted gladly by fudds who think gubmint allowance is "advancing rights".

With the help of the NRA, state legislatures are making judicial remedy harder and harder as each bill passes into law. And what are bills if not signatures of debt to be paid? A COST?

What happened in Texas is a Greek tragedy. Yet some cheer it like its so wonderful.
Go ahead you pussies. Beg for your permission slips. It's only a matter of time until that premise sees you DENIED PERMISSION! A bigger fools errand has never been endeavored that overshadows the idiocy of permission slipping ENUMERATED RIGHTS!

Boneheads. Fudds are straight up BONEHEADS!; June 2, 2015 at 11:56 AM
PO'd American said...: Bob said, “Opponents ATTEMPTED to stop an ATTEMPT to bring Texas’ antiquated open carry laws in line with the rest of the country with unpalatable “poison pill” amendments.

Poison Pill? Says you?

BTW, Wonderfully worded sentence for a 3rd grader.

Contrasting proof that no one should read the Bob Owens Reports.
Question:
How does one keep Bob Owens happy?
Answer:
Give him a gallon of government Koolaid and a couple of Pom Poms. You go girl!; June 2, 2015 at 12:41 PM
Bad Cyborg said...: Anon @ 11:5 AM,
Call me a Fudd if you like, but I'm happy to just get to carry openly for now. What we have now (or rather WILL have come New Year's Day) isn't true constitutional carry but, when you're hungry, half a loaf beats the crap out of a kick in the ass.

Oh, and another thing. Under the Texas constitution, the Governor's signature is not needed for a bill to become law. Whether the governor signs a bill or not, if both houses of the legislature approve a bill it WILL become law. All the governor can do is veto a bill. There is no such thing as a "pocket veto" in Texas. Bills passed by both houses AUTOMATICALLY become law even without the gov's signature. If a Bill passes during the regular session, more than 10 before the end of a session, it becomes law in 10 days with or without the governor's signature. If a bill passes within 10 days of the end of a session, then the Governor had 20 days to veto or sign it but no matter what, if the legislature passes a bill it WILL become law absent the governor's veto.

As I told Herschel, I think we would've been stopped anyhow whether the language was in the law or not. Cops are given special instruction in writing up their reports so as to justify just about anything and everything. Technically, a "Terry Stop" doesn't require "Probable Cause" (i.e. a set of facts and circumstances which would lead a reasonable person to conclude that an offense has been committed, is being committed or is about to be committed) but only "Reasonable Suspicion" (i.e. an objective and articulable suspicion). Most non-rookie cops are reasonably proficient at hokeying up something that could pass for reasonable suspicion to justify a Terry Stop. When you factor in the presumption in the minds of the courts and most people that cops don't lie, it would be hard to ding a cop for such a stop.; June 2, 2015 at 5:06 PM
Anonymous said...: Thanks, Mike, for linking to Owens column, in case I wanted to read any more of his film-flam jibber-jabber mish-mash bullshit. Owens has lost all credibility with me. I won't bother to waste any more time considering the words of a person who believes Glock triggers are dangerous.; June 2, 2015 at 6:16 PM
Jack Crabb said...: I refuse to read anything by the copsucking statist Owens.; June 5, 2015 at 2:20 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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