Petition for "open carry" in Texas Options

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5851852.html

FORT WORTH — Despite the Lone Star State's love affair with the gun, there's at least one firearms restriction that some Texans want lifted.

Texas is just one of six states in which handguns can't be worn in plain view. The other 44 states, in the parlance of gun advocates, are known as "open-carry" states.

More than 3,500 people have signed an online petition asking Gov. Rick Perry and the Legislature to permit Texans to wear their handguns without concealing them.

The Texas Citizens Defense League supports the petition, which requests that people who legally buy handguns be allowed to carry them openly, except in places prohibited by law.

I guess it wouldn't bother me, so long as you still had to have a license to carry. I've been to gun ranges quite a bit now and see a lot of careless people. I think this would deter crime quite a bit, but I also think there'd be a lot of accidents.

What do you guys think of this?

[Mommy]

I'm against it. Not only for the fashion statement argument, but also because I think it will give criminals who don't have access to a weapon, access to a gun. They see Mr. Joe Bob with a gun at his waste, run over, grab it, and shoot up the place. Then again, I am for most gun control laws. I don't like guns too much at all.