Any Texas Residents Here?

[Gregwill16]

Well said Diogenes!
It isn't up to others to tell me what I may or may not possess, as long as I am not harming anyone else. The laws on the books from many years ago have served us well, and would continue to do so if they were followed indiscriminately.
I will add that we do not "need" 600-700 HP engines that could harm a family of 5 or 6 in the wrong hands. So we may need a law for assault weapons for engines while we're at it.

[chris401]

Well said Diogenes!
It isn't up to others to tell me what I may or may not possess, as long as I am not harming anyone else. The laws on the books from many years ago have served us well, and would continue to do so if they were followed indiscriminately.
I will add that we do not "need" 600-700 HP engines that could harm a family of 5 or 6 in the wrong hands. So we may need a law for assault weapons for engines while we're at it.

I figured someone would say that. Look guy's I have my own faults, that is why I try to live by the principal of for the common good. It does interfere with what I want at times but it was written in our manual thousands of years ago and does not change. Check your history of cities and world powers that were destroyed for their ways. If they were never to be inhabited then that is the way it is and still is to this day. Our short 300 year on this continent has no bearing on what the principal we are expected to live by. I tend to get a irritated when someone reads a Facebook post or a web site and assumes Texas is a bunch of gullible and unreasonable gun toters. It is my home state and I am not ashamed to live there. If you guys go out and meet folks in person you'll see people in this country are basically the same.

Most of us have spent our time in jail for breaking the laws of the common good and this is no different. If people refuse to do what benefits everyone they need to be made to do so.

EDIT: I'll quit now.

[cjshaker]

If people refuse to do what benefits everyone they need to be made to do so.

EDIT: I'll quit now.

That is one messed up statement. So who decides who is "made" to, and who "everyone" is? You?
You should have quit the sentence before that statement, because you just threw out the entire Bill of Rights in that statement.

And I'm not going to get into your definition of "assault weapon", because it's ludicrous and uneducated. If you want to bring Christianity into it, then what you're suggesting is that we should just let another country walk in and take over, because "Thou shalt not kill"...right?

I imagine this thread will be locked now, and probably rightfully so.

[jayb]

I imagine this thread will be locked now, and probably rightfully so.

Yep.  No politics or religious topics here, guys...