{"id":52349,"date":"2014-06-26T13:51:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T17:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52349"},"modified":"2014-06-26T13:51:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T17:51:16","slug":"open-carry-texas-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52349","title":{"rendered":"Open Carry Texas again"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABC News<\/a> did a story on Open Carry Texas recently. Of course, it stars our old friend CJ Grisham, but I mention the article because of something he said;<\/p>\n

As for his controversial marches, Grisham says they help show people that guns are not always something to be feared. When pressed, he acknowledged that he knows he may be scaring some people, but that these people have what he calls \u201can irrational fear of guns.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Being a common sense kind of guy, I don’t fear guns – I fear people who feel a need to make a spectacle of themselves by displaying their long guns in public. I noticed that many of the rifles in the video were scoped. Why would I need a scoped long gun in a personal protection situation? I’m a pretty good shot with iron sights at a hundred or so yards. If something dangerous was coming at me from more than a hundred yards away, I could use other methods to extract myself from the situation – like call a cab.<\/p>\n

Another fallacy his statement supports is that leftist thing about guns being the subject, not the people who commit crimes. I rightly fear crazy people with guns, I don’t fear the gun itself. When I see people like folks in the video who are carrying weapons just for the act of carrying weapons, well, they worry me. They’re purposely looking for confrontation, either with their political opponents, the police or with business owners – just for the publicity they think they can generate.<\/p>\n

If they were openly carrying a sidearm, I’d really have little problem with that – but I’d wonder why they can’t carry their handgun concealed like those of us who passed background checks and took the training. And, you know, it’s Texas. A state that is better than most when it comes to Second Amendment issues. It just seems so counter productive. <\/p>\n

And when the issue becomes about the actual gun rather than the people who carry guns, you’ve kind of conceded the argument to the gun grabbers, because they only want to regulate the guns that you want to shove in everyone’s faces instead of regulating the people who have access to the guns. See how that works?<\/p>\n