Here are new laws going into effect in Texas September 1

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Texas gun laws will be more lenient

The Texas Legislature passed 10 pro-Second Amendment bills during the 2019 session.

Texans who legally own firearms will be able to carry them in public after a state or natural disaster is declared. The law came after complaints Harvey victims weren't able to take their guns during mandatory evacuations.

Licensed handgun holders can legally carry in places of worship unless given “effective oral or written notice” or warning that weapons were banned from the property.

Landlords won't be able to ban renters from having guns in their apartments.

School districts can no longer ban the possession of firearms that are stored in locked vehicles.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/politics/new-texas-laws-september-1/285-bea209b8-f554-41fe-aa42-52484d1c7809

[katmondoo]

1. Stay away from Texas, this is a State where people with guns are the mental problem

OK not all, but if you feel you cannot go anywhere without a gun , that is a mental problem.

[pecosbob]

7. I lived there for forty years but left after they jumped the shark

[procon]

2. Where are the safeguards and protections for

The majority of citizens that don't own guns? How can anyone ever feel safe and secure when gun nuts are strutting arround with their portable manhood in full display?

Why should I have to fear for my life because some paranoid, insecure idiot is allowed to bring his guns into a public venue? It's not like anyone can tell just by looking what his motives or intentions might be. The mere fact that he feels the need to display a gun is strike one on his mental health checklist.

Texas is notoriously in the pocket of the NRA. These loose gun laws don't say welcome to new residents, but they certainly serve as a warning to move somewhere else where the government protects the rights of all citizens to find life, liberty and happiness without living under the scourge of guns.

[Igel]

6. A lot of this depends on context.

Had a roommate (from Idaho) who'd go hunting when he was in high school.

I've had students now who did the same.

They'd throw their guns in their trunk with whatever else they needed and go hunting in the morning, if it was light. Then go to school. Or they'd leave straight from school to go hunting. Either way, they had guns in the trunk of their cars. And, if it was a truck, some part of the long gun might even be seen from outside.

Most days, no guns. But if they had a reason--not "feeling safe and secure"--then they'd have the guns in their vehicles. It was certainly against Texas law (where I live now). Don't know if it was illegal in Idaho decades ago.

It also doesn't say "display guns" in a public venue. I almost invariably have underwear when I'm in public, but not so much on display. (Which is more than I can say for some of my students.) Another roommate--when I lived in the Pac West I couldn't afford a house and so had roommates--drove an armed car. He was vaguely paranoid about his safety, so he carried a concealed weapon. He didn't hurt anybody, but every once in a while news would circulate about some armed car heist or threat, so he was at elevated risk of personal danger. He'd also bike to work (this was the Pac West). If he wanted to stop along the way to get coffee, do errands, etc., accommodating his worries about safety got in the way of his doing errands.

Oh, and during hunting season he'd also toss a rifle in his truck and go hunting. I didn't live in a large urban area where appreciation for the wilderness meant making sure it was preserved far away like a museum to be visited every few years, but appreciation for the wilderness meant a 20 minute drive. (And where, if you didn't thin the elk and deer herds, you'd find your backyard garden was deer food.)

Me? The closest I got to making plans to go off and kill things didn't involve gang shootings or Bambi shootings but throwing my pole and tackle box in the trunk, having my hook in the water at sunrise, and then getting to work by 8:30. Don't like the taste of venison.

[pamdb]

3. Idiots

Couldn’t pay me to live in that state.

[mbusby]

4. I've lived in this state...

...for 65 years and I am not an idiot. The republican state legislators on the other hand...

[oasis]

5. GOP gotta go.

[spanone]

8. Fucking goddamn hypocrites....they should all be jailed.

[uponit7771]

9. Abbot the asshole is talking about his "solutions" which means he wants more guns in the open