Planogirl is correct. Texas is looking at a huge push to allow full on open carry everywhere. "Long arms" are already legal to open carry in Texas. They are not walking around with concealed weapons after taking a class. They are walking around inside restaurants, stores, and other areas where families with children gather with rifles slung over their shoulders. I don't know these people--why on earth would I trust them around myself or my children with a loaded weapon? Sorry, but I don't choose to shop or eat next to someone with a potentially loaded rifle swinging around. I grew up in a hunting family and was around guns my whole life. When not in use, their guns were secured and away from children. To me, all this open carry is just an accident waiting to happen. Take the class, secure your weapon, walk around concealed all you want, but don't expect people to want to be sitting next to a group of twenty in a restaurant with guns slung over your shoulders knocking into the waitstaff's knees. Concealed carry is totally different from what's happening in Texas.
As samcro said, the concealed carry people are not the ones I would be worried about.
Not to go even more OT than I already have, but I guess I should have quoted the post that I was responding to for clarity. A post said people were not marching around with assault rifles, and I was verifying that, yes, in Texas, people ARE most certainly walking around with "rifles" (I have no idea what constitutes an assault rifle, so I will just stick with the term "long arm") because I've seen it in person repeatedly lately.
