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demmiblue

(36,903 posts) Thu Jan 15, 2015, 03:09 PM Jan 2015

House OKs panic buttons in wake of open carry confrontation (Texas)

Source: Houston Chronicle

AUSTIN - The Texas House approved rules Wednesday to be able to install panic buttons and eject hostile members of the public from their offices, after a confrontation between lawmakers and open carry advocates visiting the Capitol on the opening day of the 2015 session.

"I think that public servants and members of the public ought to feel safe and secure when they come to the Capitol," said Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, who sponsored an amendment to add the safety measures to the house housekeeping rules. "That being said, it came to my attention there was some disagreement as to whether members have to accommodate individuals or groups that are acting in a threatening or belligerent manner."

On Tuesday, around 15 to 20 members of the group Open Carry Tarrant County visited several lawmaker offices urging them to support House Bill 195, which seeks to undo Texas' 125-year ban on the open carry of handguns. Several House members, including Democrats Poncho Nevarez of Eagle Pass and Celia Israel of Austin, said the group hassled them or their staff.

In a video posted to Facebook by Kory Watkins, the gun group's leader, on Tuesday, open carry activists can be heard calling Nevarez "a tyrant to the Constitution" and telling him he "won't be here very long, bro."

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House OKs panic buttons in wake of open carry confrontation (Texas) (Original Post) demmiblue Jan 2015 OP

The Tarrant County group is so nutty the state organization has distanced themselves. tammywammy Jan 2015 #1

I don't blame you... demmiblue Jan 2015 #3

They wouldn't have too if they just banned them all together... Historic NY Jan 2015 #2

they're...there..their Bandit Jan 2015 #8

These guys are out performance-arting The Onion. salin Jan 2015 #4

If only maxrandb Jan 2015 #5

Cool now can we get them everywhere else in the country Egnever Jan 2015 #6

Ah yesss...the fuckwads that WANT the government to come for them! Rex Jan 2015 #7

... blogslut Jan 2015 #9

And this (sans the mustache) demmiblue Jan 2015 #12

Fun With Guns: Arm or Panic Edition Gothmog Jan 2015 #10

Isn't it amazing? Neon Gods Jan 2015 #11

And the common folk FLyellowdog Jan 2015 #14

typical gun humping logic Skittles Jan 2015 #16

Legislative approval has been instrumental in forming the open carry movement. Paladin Jan 2015 #13

Let's get the Lege those panic buttons stat PDittie Jan 2015 #15

K & R !!! WillyT Jan 2015 #17

tammywammy

(26,582 posts)

1. The Tarrant County group is so nutty the state organization has distanced themselves.

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 03:20 PM

Jan 2015

As someone who lives & works in Tarrant County I try to know where they're "demonstrating" so I can stay the heck away from them.

demmiblue

(36,903 posts)

3. I don't blame you...

Reply to tammywammy (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 03:24 PM

Jan 2015

some of these people are unhinged!

Historic NY

(37,457 posts)

2. They wouldn't have too if they just banned them all together...

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 03:22 PM

Jan 2015

panic button is a little too late. By the time someone hits the button their dead.

Even the NRA said its downright weird & scary before they were even against saying that...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/nra-open-carry-protest_n_5441189.html

Bandit

(21,475 posts)

8. they're...there..their

Reply to Historic NY (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 03:34 PM

Jan 2015

grammar nazi here

salin

(48,955 posts)

4. These guys are out performance-arting The Onion.

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 03:25 PM

Jan 2015

Threatening a lawmaker while carrying around guns... in order to persuade lawmakers to change a gun law? Theater of the Absurd in the literal sense.

maxrandb

(15,366 posts)

5. If only

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 03:27 PM

Jan 2015

the American people had a Panic Button for every time these conservative asshats gain control of our country.

Egnever

(21,506 posts)

6. Cool now can we get them everywhere else in the country

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 03:28 PM

Jan 2015

Including all public areas.

I bet not. Nice they are happy to provide them for themselves but the rest of us just have to live with it. Cause militia...

Rex

(65,616 posts)

7. Ah yesss...the fuckwads that WANT the government to come for them!

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 03:31 PM

Jan 2015

I swear to Koresh...we have some of the biggest wastes of life here in Texas. Some of them group together to become gargantuan wastes of life!

My how PROUD shitstain must be (in the picture) holding his USSR/Chinese firearm! What? American guns not good enough fer ya!

I HATE gun humpers with a passion. They seem to have a collective IQ of 3.

blogslut

(38,020 posts)

9. ...

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 03:37 PM

Jan 2015

demmiblue

(36,903 posts)

12. And this (sans the mustache)

Reply to blogslut (Reply #9)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 04:16 PM

Jan 2015

Gothmog

(145,694 posts)

10. Fun With Guns: Arm or Panic Edition

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 03:59 PM

Jan 2015

Juanita Jean had a great deal of fun with this story http://www.juanitajean.com/2015/01/15/fun-with-guns-arm-or-panic-edition/

It’s been a spectacular week for gun nuts in Texas.

The Texas Branch of Really Homely Guys With Guns, aka Open Carry Texas, stormed the State Capitol on the first day of the session, and proceeded to threaten members of the legislature.

Seriously.

They seemed to particularly enjoy harassing the Hispanic members. One member escorted them from his office.

The gun nuts themselves posted this video on Facebook to show the difference between guts and gall. Their cause is that you shouldn’t have to have a license to carry a firearm. They believe that requiring a background check or a license is an infringement on their rights.

Kory Watkins, the head of this group, is a very strange guy. Plus, bless his heart, he’s homely as a mud fence. Have you ever noticed that about the gun nuts? They are very homely guys. Bless their hearts.

You need to read the entire piece but Juanita Jean had fun

Neon Gods

(222 posts)

11. Isn't it amazing?

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 04:06 PM

Jan 2015

Politicians fall all over themselves to give gun nuts whatever they demand, putting the public in danger, but when the gun nuts threaten the politicians in their own office: OMG! We need protection from those gun nuts!

FLyellowdog

(4,276 posts)

14. And the common folk

Reply to Neon Gods (Reply #11)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 05:02 PM

Jan 2015

don't even see this as a problem.

Skittles

(153,226 posts)

16. typical gun humping logic

Reply to Neon Gods (Reply #11)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:50 AM

Jan 2015

fuck them all

Paladin

(28,279 posts)

13. Legislative approval has been instrumental in forming the open carry movement.

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 04:25 PM

Jan 2015

So I can't get very upset when open carry goons show up at the legislators' offices, acting like the knuckle-draggers they are. I got your panic button, guys.....

PDittie

(8,322 posts)

15. Let's get the Lege those panic buttons stat

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 09:32 PM

Jan 2015

WillyT

(72,631 posts)

17. K & R !!!

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 02:54 PM

Jan 2015

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