Texas Big On Extremism, Religion And Guns But Last In Education, Health Care, Poverty And The Necessities To Help Its Citizens To Have A Better Life

AUSTIN — The Texas Senate has given its final approval to a bill that would allow licensed gun permit holders to openly carry handguns, sending the bill to the House.

 

Tuesday’s 20-10 vote in the Senate comes on the heels of Monday’s 20-11 vote to approve Senate Bill 17, which would make open carry legal for those with a concealed handgun license.

 

The bill would allow concealed handgun license holders to display their guns in shoulder or belt holsters.

 

Texas is one of six states — California, Florida, Illinois, New York and South Carolina — along with Washington, D.C., to prohibit open carry. According to OpenCarry.org, 14 states require a permit or license to open carry; 30 states allow open carry without a permit or a license, and in some cases the gun must be unloaded.

 

Texas easily has the most gun-friendly reputation. From manufacturers to dealers, Texas has the most federal firearms license holders in the country. It has few restrictions on gun ownership, and the state has actively lobbied gun makers to move to the state.

 

Texas also allows the public display of long guns, such as rifles and shotguns, and open carry advocates have staged high-profile rallies at the Alamo and state Capitol. Concealed handguns are allowed inside the Capitol, where license holders can bypass metal detectors.

 

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Associated Press Published By USA Today

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/17/texas-senate-gun-open-carry/24892513/

GUNS & GOD: “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you, I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” [John 14:27]

My words to you – “Take up thy cross and follow Me,” but you have taken up Guns and now you have taken Guns into My Church. Do you still follow Moses Law “an eye for an eye,” or My words, “If thou spike thee on the right cheek turn to him the left?”

 

“Do not take the name of the Lord Thy God in vain, for those that live by the sword shall die by the sword. You cannot be with Me if you do not give heed to My words.”

 

It seems a total contradiction on your way to Church to be carrying the Bible in one hand and a Gun in the other. God, Christ, Bible, Guns, Christian are only words, what matters “are your deeds.”

 

Do your security, faith and eternity lie in the Jesus Christ or in the barrel of a Gun? The Jihadists protect the Quran as an endangered species; they read it; they wrap it in fine linen; they tuck it away safely and in the name of Allah [God] they kill innocent children, women and men.

 

Do we do the same? Read the Bible; put it in a clean place; take it to church; kneel down and pray, all the while carrying one or more Guns, ready to kill your fellow human being, made by the same God you profess to believe in? We are high and mighty proclaiming God in Christ; calling ourselves Christians; and at the same time overloaded with prejudice; hate; discrimination; always invoking the Constitution and being Patriots.

 

God, Christ and Love is indivisible! If you are willing to kill, hate, allow yourself to be prejudice, discriminate, then, you are most certainly bankrupt of Christ and Patriotism.

 

The more intertwined and entwined you are with Religion, the farther away you are from God, because, God has never been and will never be a Religion!

 

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