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Sweet Jebus....

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/437665-texas-gop-leaders-drop-constitutional-carry-bill-after-gun-rights

 

Texas's Republican House Speaker on Friday moved to drop the state's "constitutional carry" legislation after a gun rights activist showed up at his home to push for the bill.

Dennis Bonnen said the bill was "dead" after Chris McNutt, the executive director of Texas Gun Rights, appeared at his home to advocate for the controversial legislation that would allow Texans to carry firearms without a license, The Dallas Morning News reported.

 

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I will agree showing up at the official's home was way inappropriate and stupid.

I also believe the house speaker was looking for an excuse.

 

^^^ This! ^^^

 

 

And the idiot definitely gave it to him. Really dumb move for several reasons.

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Surely other elected reps in that state can do something to prevent this from occurring, especially if there is widespread constituency support for the bill, yes?

The leaders of legislative bodies control the agenda. If the leader doesn't want a bill to come to a vote, the body can typically force it onto the agenda. Leaders also control committee assignments (and in Illinois they control campaign funding, but that's not true in every other - or necessarily any other - state), so legislators openly oppose their leaders at the peril of their political careers.

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It was a complete (and MISREPRESENTED) set-up.

 

Better yet, the "accused" has the COPS guarding that creep politician's house as sworn witnesses as to what actually happened.

 

He was HANDBILLING HIS NEIGHBORHOOD about the issue that weekend.

 

There was never any attempt at a face to face confrontation.

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It was a complete (and MISREPRESENTED) set-up.

 

Better yet, the "accused" has the COPS guarding that creep politician's house as sworn witnesses as to what actually happened.

 

He was HANDBILLING HIS NEIGHBORHOOD about the issue that weekend.

 

There was never any attempt at a face to face confrontation.

 

Do you have a link to this?

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It was a complete (and MISREPRESENTED) set-up.

 

Better yet, the "accused" has the COPS guarding that creep politician's house as sworn witnesses as to what actually happened.

 

He was HANDBILLING HIS NEIGHBORHOOD about the issue that weekend.

 

There was never any attempt at a face to face confrontation.

 

Wait, what? I need to see the source on that!

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Wait, what? I need to see the source on that!

 

 

There is always two sides to the story, but if you read the media accounts carefully and combine it with his account there sure appears no face to face was attempted, in fact it appears he was simply handbilling the neighborhoods of a few legislators and that act got those legislators panties in a tissy and considered that crossing the line because it was too close to their homes.

 

https://www.facebook.com/TexasGunRights/

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Wait, what? I need to see the source on that!

 

 

There is always two sides to the story, but if you read the media accounts carefully and combine it with his account there sure appears no face to face was attempted, in fact it appears he was simply handbilling the neighborhoods of a few legislators and that act got those legislators panties in a tissy and considered that crossing the line because it was too close to their homes.

 

https://www.facebook.com/TexasGunRights/

 

 

I don't have a Facebook page and that link requires a login with a Facebook account. Can you copy and past it?

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I don't have a Facebook page and that link requires a login with a Facebook account. Can you copy and past it?

 

 

He explains his side in a video so no copy and paste, but you can get a quick overview of it here as well.

 

https://txgunrights.org/latest-news/speaker-bonnen-is-advancing-gun-control/

 

A short synopsis is that this individual started to canvas the neighborhoods of select legislatures handing out handbills to their neighbors and constituents pointing out that they were stalling on this bill and not keeping their promises to advance it, he has been doing this for weeks and has been very public about it. Speaker Bonnen knowing he was likely on the list of targeted neighborhoods requested his house be put under police surveillance, and when this guy showed up in the neighborhood to hand out his fliers he was confronted by those police that were waiting for him, he apparently handed them the police a business card and that was that. Once the 'sting' Bonnen setup was tripped he authored his own 'confronting me at my home' narrative and pushed that to the media.

 

Notice the playbook anti-gun spin Speaker Bonnen put on this from articles leaning towards him, and notice that the words are carefully chosen to suggest that it was a face to face confrontation even though it wasn't since he was 100s of miles away. He is also injecting the 'fear of his young children' for the emotional appeal and his wife has gone full LWW afraid of pictures of guns on a shirt!

 

 

 

“You’re also showing up with a T-shirt with a machine gun on it,” she said, adding that the visit was “freaking me out…This cannot become how we advocate.”

 

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/State-troopers-intercept-gun-rights-activist-at-13743180.php

 

I'm not saying I agree with the guys tactics, as it was bound to create a backlash, but what he did was simply exercise his 1st (agree or now with how he did it) and the legislators are upset because he took exercising his 1st directly to their constituents and neighbors (aka hit home) as evidenced in the quote below where Bonnen seems to think that all political activism and political debate should be limited to the capital building only!

 

 

 

"If you want to talk about issues and you want to advocate, you do it in this building. You don’t do it at our residences,"

 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-house-speaker-declares-constitutional-carry-bill-dead-after-gun-rights-activist-shows-up-at-his-home

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But when the left protest outside a conservative's house or interupts a conservative's meal or threatens their family that's not only alright but encouraged.

 

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Exactly. These are PUBLIC officials. No more no less. The guy can handbill anywhere he is legally allowed to.which should be anywhere.

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... I would add if OC is legal in Texas the protesters should all open carry while doing it.

Open carry is legal in TX for people who have a license to carry. TX honors just about every other state's license, too, including IL CCL. Although there are some places where open carry is prohibited even with a license, public roads and sidewalks aren't among them.

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Yeah, the more I read about this incident, the more I realize it's BS. Fake news.

 

This Chris McNutt guy never went to Dennis Bonnen's house to confront him. He was just canvassing the neighborhood's in his district, passing out information and happened to get near Bonnen's house.

 

Bonnen lied about the whole thing and used it as an excuse to kill the bill.

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Yeah, the more I read about this incident, the more I realize it's BS. Fake news.

 

This Chris McNutt guy never went to Dennis Bonnen's house to confront him. He was just canvassing the neighborhood's in his district, passing out information and happened to get near Bonnen's house.

 

Bonnen lied about the whole thing and used it as an excuse to kill the bill.

 

Exactly. In the link to the interview Twostarrz posted in #17, McNutt stated that he had no F2F with the speaker. He also pointed out that killing this bill had apparently been the speaker's intention all along.

That's why he appointed an anti-gun activist to chair the committee that was supposed to review the bill.

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  • 2 weeks later...

 

 

 

"If you want to talk about issues and you want to advocate, you do it in this building. You don’t do it at our residences,"

Don't know about Texas but I've got a worn out doorbell and 2 reams of asinine mailings from the last campaign that I never asked for.

 

Seems like this is a case of happy to dish it out but can't take it. "It" being sending someone door to door asking for votes.

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