Open Carry in Texas. Gun rights loses by winning.

via Breitbart.

The bill, which will take effect after being signed by the Governor on January 1, 2016, will allow people with Concealed Handgun Licenses to openly carry a handgun in a belt or shoulder holster. Should the Campus Carry Bill pass on Saturday as expected, licensees will not be able to openly carry a handgun on campus.

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Bring the hate.  Its time for some bitter truth.  The biggest vulnerability the Gun Rights agenda is currently facing is from the group of people that advocate open carry.

Its the most insane I could possibly think of in this day and age.

First its tactically stupid.

Let me repeat.  Its tactically stupid.  I've seen many Law Enforcement Officials walking around in what appears to be a dazed, slack eyed and stupid way, not wearing snatch proof holsters, fat as cows and while I think that I'm a good guy, I've often thought that it would be child's play to take their weapon while they're so focused on their Iphone, some chick's ass or some paperwork that they leaning across a counter doing.

Make it a civilian with the latest style holster that actually belongs in a 3-gun match and not on the streets and my prediction is that you're going to see open carry morons get robbed so many times it gonna make heads spin.  Some of these people are gonna die with weapons that they brought to a gunfight they weren't prepared for.

The next issue is gonna be the news coverage of the inevitable assaults, thefts and deaths of these open carriers when the criminals zero in on the fact that these people are walking around with decent, to good, to high dollar handguns that are ripe for the picking.

The idea of the irresponsible gun owner is about blossom.  Many in the gun rights community are gonna think this is a win.  Its not.  We lost by winning.

Sidenote:  Spare me the "its our right" argument.  If you compromise your ultimate goal by enforcing a "right" that is questionable at best then in my opinion you're being foolish.  We'll see what we see but this is gonna bring nothing but misery to the movement.

Sidenote 2:  If I was a police chief in Texas I would develop protocols that open carriers have the right to carry but when approached by my officers they would be proned out and made safe...then their credentials would be checked.  I would have the ass of any of my officers that didn't put the fear of God or at least make it a tremendous hassle.  YEAH BRING THE HATE, but unless checks are done then what's gonna happen is that we see criminals open carrying because some prohibition has been put in place on checking these people when they're walking around BRANDISHING firearms...oh and brandishing includes OPEN DISPLAY!