It's called "constitutional carry" by its advocates and idiocy by everyone else, but the Texas bill allows you, me, and Homer Simpson to buy guns without paying $40 for a permit OR getting any training whatsoever in how to use them. Training should be voluntary, according to the gun rights people.
This foolish law makes the state immeasurably more dangerous to those who live in it -- a fact that police officers have pointed out repeatedly, in Texas and other states.
Maybe people can stay safer by exchanging pandemic isolation with gun-fear isolation, shopping remotely and staying indoors. Still, your crazy neighbor can buy just about any assault rifle there is, and those suckers can send a bullet through the walls of an average house. Or so I hear.
Mercifully, Texans still won't be able to carry guns in schools, hospitals, and some other public places, and private businesses can ban gun carriers from coming into their establishments.
If you're still not sure that Texas is in the grip of rabidly right-wing politicians, the state also just passed a law that forbids pension funds and other state-run investors to put money into companies that want to find alternatives to fossil fuels.
Can you believe these jackasses?
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Gov-Abbott-signs-constitutional-carry-bill-16253153.php?fbclid=IwAR3AjwETzon7-UI8lHGeUU3kqutij0Z1lKDn7P21T3WHkCttzwlAAtDbCXI
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