DEB wrote: Tue Oct 23, 2018 12:05 pm
talltex wrote: Tue Oct 23, 2018 11:33 am
mojo84 wrote: Tue Oct 23, 2018 5:09 am
That's great but both of your positions are significantly different than infoman's. I'm curious about what dem positions makes him want to vote dem when one of their primary positions is contrary to the 2nd Amendment and what this forum is about.
Instead they come up with divisive "non-issues" to polarize support and raise party funds with silly crap like the "Bathroom Bill". "End of Rant"
To you perhaps a "non-issue" and "silly crap", but to me and others that believe as I do, these issues are important.

My first and most important stand is on Gun Rights and the expanding of the same. Next are those issues that I find to be repugnant and against my beliefs. The only reason I chose gun rights first, is because that so far, most of those who are for gun rights also believe as I do.
My post had nothing at all to do with gun rights. I'm not a Beto supporter. Don't really care for Ted Cruz either, but he will probably wind up with my vote. There are many Democrats around that do not support banning any type of firearms but they don't publicly make an issue of it, lest they incur the wrath of their party bosses. Politics in both Austin and Washington is a very dirty business.
I have been hunting and shooting, on my own, since I was 11 years old. I have been a competitive Skeet, Trap and Sporting Clays shooter for many years. I handload all my own ammunition, from centerfire rifles and handguns to all shotgun gauges. I am a gun collector. For many years I set up tables at all the gun shows buying and selling all types of firearms. I was an avid hunter and bred and trained English Pointer and English Setter quail dogs. I worked as a Deputy for the Sheriff's Dept. while getting my Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice.
What I referred to as "non-issue and silly crap" is all the time and money spent debating "the Bathroom Bill". I'm NOT in favor of open bathrooms for both sexes. The truth is it's " a solution in search of a problem". We have gotten by just fine without a bathroom law since 1836. There was never a legislative push to demand uni-sex bathrooms. There was never a bill brought to a vote to make that legal. It was a "non-issue", until some publicity hounds (think Dan Patrick) brought it up and made it an issue. Have you ever had a problem with cross dressers molesting women or kids in your city? Can you show a verifiable account of it being a problem in ANY city in Texas? What I'm saying is we have gotten along without a law saying a "cross dressing man or transgender person" can't go into a female designated
restroom for over 150 years without a problem. IF such a law was passed, how do you think it could be enforced? Are we going to a post a LEO at the door of every women's
public bathroom in the state? IF we did so, how would that possibly work? Is the Officer going to perform a "hand between the legs" search of every woman entering the bathroom? I don't think so. The whole debate is just smoke and mirrors designed to stir people up and get them to send donations to help protect our women and kids from a threat that doesn't exist. You find the idea of someone molesting a women or child in a women's bathroom repugnant and against your beliefs? Well welcome to the club. I dare say you can't find anyone who is in favor of that. That's ALREADY against the law regardless of where it happens. Don't accept anything the politicians say at face value. Newsflash--sometimes they lie. Do the research yourself. Statistically a child is much more likely to be molested in a church setting --and not just by a Priest-- than in a
public restroom.
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