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Mostly unrelated thought: Would be interesting to have a Special Session devoted just to repealing laws, no new stuff allowed. That would be interesting.

I refer to the prescience and common sense of the eminent Professor De La Paz, who once said, "Let the legislators pass laws only with a two-thirds majority... while the repealers are able to cancel any law through a mere one-third minority. Preposterous? Think about it. If a bill is so poor that it cannot command two-thirds of your consents, is it not likely that it would make a poor law? And if a law is disliked by as many as one-third is it not likely that you would be better off without it?"

The key, of course, would not be to pass laws allowing freedom, but to repeal laws prohibiting it.

De La Paz was a fair dinkum thinker, as was his brother-in-arms, Mycroft.

To be absolutely fair, I don't think OC is common enough, despite all the hoopla about it, to have actually established a dataset worthy of telling us whether gun-snatches and/or targeting of open carriers is or will be a problem.

Maybe not in Texas, but I think open carry has been legal in Arizona since it became a state. Arizona was admitted to the Union in 1912.

Interesting to consider Arizona and New Mexico joined the Union in the 1900's, but that wasn't the end of it. My parents put three candles on my birthday cake before there were 50 stars on the flag, and there are plenty of folks who can remember pledging allegiance to 48 star flags.