After Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) announced on Tuesday that there were not enough votes in the state senate to pass a bill allowing residents to open carry handguns, a state gun group responded with threats.
Tarrant County Open Carry said it will not accept the lawmakers’ decision to drop the bill for now and plans to identify Republican lawmakers who do not support the legislation.
“Well, it’s time to hunt down the Republicans who don’t support the Constitution and the Republican Platform,” the group wrote on Facebook. “Then, we will expose them and help them find a new job by making sure they won’t have a chance to ever get elected in Texas again. Time to start sending these people to California.”
The group encouraged supporters to call their state senators and find those “who are not listening to the #WeThePeople.”
“Dan Patrick said there is not enough support in the Senate. What?!?!!? Not enough support for the Constitution? The job they swore to uphold? We have 20 Republican Senators. Are they listening to lobbyist and gun organizations who are pro money?…. or the people?” the group wrote.
The same open carry group recently pushed the Texas legislature to allow lawmakers to install panic buttons in their offices after the organization confronted a Democratic Texas representative.
The leaders of Texas Open Carry have distanced themselves from the Tarrant County group. Texas Open Carry disapproves of the county group’s decision to organize open carry rallies without notifying the police ahead of time.
H/t Mediaite
Well, I suppose I’m OK with that. Perhaps Texas will become a no-go zone for, uh, people who don’t want to open carry weapons and intimidate others with threats of violence?
In 1968, when the nation was begging for people to step up for the War in Asia, when the Draft was kicking people’s ASS, when droves were heading to Canada, when the narrative portrayed in the film “Forrest Gump” was REAL, when the body bags contained friends (I lost at least TWO), when every male either was scared of getting drafted or KNEW someone who was scared ot getting drafted…
I encountered few of these here types of mental midgets, whom I can assure all of you half would piss in their pants when the first round went off In Country–and the other half would beg Charlie for Mercy.
That tells me everything I need to know about the motive of the Powers That Be in eliminating the Military Draft.
Look at our military situation:
We have an ISIS threat. We have a Ukraine threat. We have a potential Climate-induced threat (according to the Pentagon). That’s right now, for starters. And we have an entire Generation of people who KNOW that they will most likely not be asked to sacrifice a TOENAIL for their country.
And who, therefore, are perfectly happy to assault shopping centers in Lubbock.
“We’re gonna hunt down the Republicans who betrayed us and shoot all the ones in the back we can.”
That there sounds like a violent threat to me. Which is a felony in Texas.
Texas has the death penalty too.
Remember, you built that!