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...we always called it "picking your battles"...it's not the best we'd hope for...but helping someone else get what they want has always been a good way to get what we want...and politics is a deal-making business...there are some issues that are non-negotiable...and some that are...I don't mind helping this group get what they're after now, so that we can get what we're after later...as long as we DO get what we're after...

...that last post calls for a little baking soda...we are all on the same team...and the history of CHL inTexas has been give and take, bit by bit...and it's worked fine...we've accomplished a lot...unfortunately, we don't all get what we want when we want it...and , though I want to be exempt, too...I won't throw someone under the train because he gets it first...as long as he's working as hard for us as this fella is...the good thing about forums such as this is we gain information that we didn't have...and sometimes our opinions change...and sometimes they should...

...he's right on some things...wrong on others...a true Texan...just glad he's right on OUR "thang"!!!

...IF it passes...what will it accomplish at street level? the elected officials who would be carrying because of it in most locations would be the LEAST likely to either notice or respond to any threat...it's much more likely that an everyday Joe would see/be able to stop the threat to the politician than that he would act on his own behalf...unless at home or in a jogging/sports environment...I lived a lot of years in a state where there were no CHLs...and a lot of politicians and wealthy/influential carried with a little note from the Chief...it did no good to the citizenry and little to those priviliged few...and rightfully created resentment as we have seen here...there are better ways to say thank you to a hard-working politician who's giving us his best...without giving him "rights" that we, the people, don't have...Gov. Perry said it well at the end of the last legislature...he said anyone who qualifies for a CHL should be able to carry ANYWHERE...now there's common sense in action...we don't turn stupid upon entering our child's school...city hall, or anywhere else...except, as we all know, when we enter a Federal facility...then we're just a" subject"...

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...it's just one more way to say they're more important than we are...I understand that they're in danger...and should be armed...most of 'em, anyways...but no more so than we are living daily in the world they created for us...legally speaking...I prefer the Guvnah's policy...if we can go there...we can carry there...now THAT'S the way it oughta read!!!