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Texas bill to allow unlicensed handgun carrying 'a recipe for disaster,' firearms trainers say The Texas House could vote Thursday on a bill to drop training and licensing requirements from carrying handguns in public. By John C. Moritz, USA TODAY NETWORK As a combat veteran, former police officer and now certified firearms instructor, Jorge DeLeon says Texas lawmakers are gambling with innocent lives if they remove the requirement that people who carry handguns in public be properly trained. "If you take away the only training we get as a civilian right now, it's going to be worse." DeLeon s...

AUSTIN  — As a combat veteran, a former police officer and now a certified firearms instructor, Jorge DeLeon says Texas lawmakers are gambling with innocent lives if they remove the requirement that people who carry handguns in public be properly trained. "If you take away the only training we get as a civilian right now, it's going to be worse." DeLeon said outside the Texas Capitol on Tuesday. "I say we should (require) more training to the civilians out there. "We cannot let people out there without education handling weapons." DeLeon, who lost his right leg while serving in the Army i...

We're doing our best.  That's what I think a lot these days, walking into a restaurant and seeing servers in masks and face shields commanding the room. I think it when I'm sitting in the car, opening a container of spicy scallop sushi and using the armrest as a table for my wasabi soy sauce. I think it at home on my computer when a chef calls me to cry, and I can only offer the same bland acknowledgment: "We're doing our best. Hang in there."  But sometimes our best is pretty, freakishly amazing, you know? I say "freakishly" because how else do you describe ramen noodles topped with fr...