Editorial Roundup: Texas
Austin American-Statesman. May 7, 2021.
Editorial: Texas GOP lawmakers trust you with a gun but not with the vote
Texas Republican lawmakers say we should assume a person walking down the street, gun holstered to hip, is a law-abiding citizen entitled to carry that gun. No need for a permit. No reason for a cop to stop and ask what that person is up to.
“Citizens need to be trusted,” Sen. Charles Schwertner, R-Georgetown, emphasized Wednesday before the Senate passed House Bill 1927, which would allow Texans to carry a handgun in public without the license, background check and firearm training currently required by state law.
Over the opposition of law enforcement and a solid majority of Texans, the state is about to allow almost anyone to walk around with a handgun, whether they know how to use it or not.
Bud Kennedy: Texas most conservative 48 hours went Greg Abbott s way for 2022 (and 2024?)
Fort Worth Star-Telegram 5/8/2021 Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
May 8 FORT WORTH Call it the Greg Abbott Protection Session.
With a governor up for re-election in 2022 and maybe considering a presidential run in 2024, Republican lawmakers are pushing potential opponents out of the way like Panhandle snowplows during the Big Freeze: Gun-rights activists, the faction that has barked loudest at the governor the past two years?
They ll get to carry a handgun without a license. Abortion abolitionists, the extremist Republican faction that demands Texas completely end abortions regardless what the Constitution and courts say?