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?

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so many stupid people cloud the gun control issue for me

like my brother, who is a deputy, was on vacation and took his off-duty .38 with him. he took off his pants to jump in the pool, and tucked his pistol into his pants folded up on the table. later that day, his friend, grabs the gun while drunk, apparently thinks it is fake despite its weight, and shoots his sister in the face killing her and leaving her 3 kids without a mother.

shitty shitty, this was in dallas just last month