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Is This Proposal DOA? Let’s Hope So

Let’s give whomever wants it an $8-thousand voucher of Texas taxpayers’ money so they can send their children to private schools. Hmmm. What’s wrong with this proposal? EVERYTHING! 

Yet Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called another special session of the legislature in the hope that this time his private school voucher proposal will be made law. Of course, despite Texas’s $33billion surplus, Abbott has proposed  no money to support and improve public education. 

The private school voucher proposal comes from the same man who put illegal razor-wired buoys in the Rio Grande River breaking federal laws and treaties with Mexico while injuring a number of people caught in the snares. Of course, human injury, or what the governor calls “deterrence” of would-be illegal immigrants was the plan all along. 

Greg Abbott is surely full of something, but it’s not good  ideas. 

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Permitless Carry: A Not So Stellar Idea

The Texas legislature has passed a permit-less gun carry law. Who thought this up? The only good news about this for the rest of the country is that these permit-less gun-toting Texans probably can’t bring their guns into other states because they have NO GUN PERMIT! Another tidbit of good news is that guns remain prohibited in Texas schools, courthouses, and bars.

Who thought this up: According to Rep. Matt Shaefer who introduced the bill in the Texas House, “the ordinary citizen is the first responder” and the ability to defend oneself is a “God-given right.” In keeping with Shaefer’s wishes, the bill was not amended before it finally passed.

The Firearm Carry Act of 2021, allows a person 21 years or older to carry a handgun either concealed or in a holster. Schaefer clarified that the bill only applies to handguns, not AR-15s, or rifles. “I think it is a bill that is the strongest bill I’ve seen in my legislative career regarding the rights of our Second Amendment,” Republican Senate sponsor Charles Schwertner said.

The major problem with the new law – it passed the Senate 17 to 13, before Governor Abbott signed it into law – is that no permit means no gun use or safety training, either.