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Open carry

Terry Holcomb, Executive Director of Texas Carry happily displays his customized holster as he walks to the Capitol for a rally earlier this month.
Terry Holcomb, Executive Director of Texas Carry happily displays his customized holster as he walks to the Capitol for a rally earlier this month. AP

Open carry

Now that we’ve returned to the glamorous, glorious days of the 1800s with open carry of guns, I look forward with trepidation to the next shootout at the O.K. Corral. Maybe it will be in a college classroom or in a college dormitory.

We’re living in a more dangerous world with each passing day.

Don Lindstrom, Fort Worth

 

With all the people carrying guns now, Gov. Greg Abbott needs to protect the rest of us by making the gun people carry insurance to pay the bills for the people they might shoot.

As with car ownership, you shouldn’t be able to get a license to carry without showing proof of insurance.

If you’re caught carrying a gun without insurance, you lose your license for five years and are fined $5,000.

Get caught a second time without insurance, go to jail for 10 years and never get another permit!

Randy Geisel, Arlington

 

To put some minds at ease, those who legally open carry have already had background checks.

As a holder of a concealed handgun license, I have some reservations about carrying openly, but fears were also vented before concealed handguns became law.

For some of the CHL holders who said they didn’t want to violate the law with “incidental exposure,” the Legislature revised that in 2013.

Richard Lilly, Haltom City

 

My wife commented that the open-carry law should have been approved along with an open-pant-fly law.

That would allow gun-toters to show that they are men and under the open-carry law they are real macho men.

Our lawmakers still have time to correct this omission.

Ricardo Schulz, Fort Worth

The only real solution to gun violence is to start executing people who commit crimes with guns.

If they’re caught committing a crime with a gun, whether it’s carjacking, robbing a convenience store or taking out road rage — game over. Immediate execution.

If you want to eliminate crime, eliminate the criminal.

Ray Evans, Arlington

This story was originally published January 11, 2016 at 5:54 PM with the headline "Open carry."

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