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TexasTowelie

(116,804 posts)
Fri May 29, 2015, 03:24 PM May 2015

Gun activist calls on Texans to arrest and hang state lawmakers after open carry bill is delayed


Kory Watkins (Facebook)

A Texas gun activist is once again calling for the execution of lawmakers over a bill that would allow the open carry of handguns.

Kory Watkins expressed his frustration Thursday morning in a Facebook post after open carry legislation stalled the day before over law enforcement concerns.

“I’m calling for the arrest of every elected official in Texas that voted against open carry,” Watkins said. “They should be arrested, charged with treason and should face a punishment that could result in being hung from the tree of liberty.”



The Texas House appeared close to passing the legislation, but law enforcement groups persuaded lawmakers Wednesday to remove a provision that would prevent police from asking those carrying weapons for their licenses if there was no other reason to stop them.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/gun-activist-calls-on-texans-to-arrest-and-hang-state-lawmakers-after-open-carry-bill-is-delayed/#.VWdt3aYNDwQ.facebook

Cross-posted in the Texas Group.
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Gun activist calls on Texans to arrest and hang state lawmakers after open carry bill is delayed (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2015 OP
Ahh yes, the good old "treason card". misterhighwasted May 2015 #1
Why does anyone have even the remotest doubt, anymore, about the psyches of these people? villager May 2015 #2
+1 daleanime May 2015 #3
what a waste of a human body.... chillfactor May 2015 #4
there undoubtedly are some "sincere" and RATIONAL gun rights proponents hlthe2b May 2015 #5
 

villager

(26,001 posts)
2. Why does anyone have even the remotest doubt, anymore, about the psyches of these people?
Fri May 29, 2015, 03:27 PM
May 2015

To salivate over guns to such a degree, to have such a psychic dependency on them, denotes a very disturbed type of personality....

hlthe2b

(106,364 posts)
5. there undoubtedly are some "sincere" and RATIONAL gun rights proponents
Fri May 29, 2015, 03:35 PM
May 2015

But I am damned tired of giving benefit of the doubt.

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