Take Your Gun to Work Day
In a rousing show of support for guns and the owners who love them, the Legislature passed and Governor Greg Abbott gleefully signed a law proclaiming April 15 as Take Your Gun to Work Day in Texas. The provisions of the bill limit gun owners to bringing but one gun from their collections lest the less prosperous, who could afford but a single gun, be made to feel inadequate. The bill also stipulates that bringing a gun be mandatory for all registered owners and voluntary, and without penalty, for unregistered owners.
Pressure to repeal the law increased dramatically after the first celebration ended with 1102 dead and wounded across the state. By the time the legislature met again, cooler heads prevailed, and the law remained as an erstwhile emblem of the joy and exuberance that firearm ownership brings to all who love the gleam of carefully crafted barrels.
Pressure to repeal the law increased dramatically after the first celebration ended with 1102 dead and wounded across the state. By the time the legislature met again, cooler heads prevailed, and the law remained as an erstwhile emblem of the joy and exuberance that firearm ownership brings to all who love the gleam of carefully crafted barrels.
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Rhymes with take you son to work day.
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When I first read this, I thought it was real news.*
Could well be real news in a year...
You got to love an Attorney General who does everything in his power to protect poor Texans from the evils of affordable health care.
Yes, and he now runs for governor.
Did you have to remind me about where we live???? Ugh and good.*
I, too, thought this was real reportage when I first saw it.*
*, Gary. Smiling, but only because taking only one son to work is just wrong. What about the daughters?
Loved it.
As my mother would have said, "Holy Saint Angels!" fave
Also thought this was real. Great work
Good form. I like.
I was in Texas when W was the governor. He set the bar at Extreme Limbo Low for the likes of Rick Perry. Don't think Wendy Davis has a chance in the land of Koch and money. If I ever go back, I think I'd have to vote for Kinky Friedman.
Oh, I guess he's not running for governor.
http://www.texasforkinky.com/
I like his new campaign.
Texas is a good example, along with OK, TN, MS, AL, FL, MT, AK, AR, MO, KS, NE, KY, GA, NC, SC, WY, AZ and the Dakotas why states should have no rights. Ever. For anything.
Sharp. *
Thanks, Chris.
And Sam.
And Sandy.
And Nonnie.
And Oliver.
And David.
And Gary.
And Joani.
No doubt the death count would have been higher had the cost of ammo not been skyrocketing. *
thanks, Matt.
For anyone who thinks this guy Abbott is just a harmless good old boy from Texas:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/17/1278269/-Republican-Texas-Lt-Governor-hopeful-to-President-Obama-Come-and-take-it?detail=email
He gives the disabled a bad name.
This would never happen in California. Texas, maybe. *
thanks jake and tina for your responses.
Nicely done. Texas might see it as an idea not satire. *
This is so real it might as well be. We need more eagle-eyed satire like this.
Thank you, Christian and DJ.
Christian Bell's comment scares me, as it's quite true! Nice piece Gary.
Thank you, Neil.
well done. I will be taking my guns to Facebook and Twitter. *
Thank you, Bud.