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				Re: Brownsville Herald Poll "Are opposed to the new open carry gun law in Texas?"
				Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 1:26 am
				by K.Mooneyham
				jt88 wrote:bigity wrote:86% - and whole 'less of a man argument' is stupid.  I'm not going to start a fight, and if someone starts a deadly confrontation to me, I'm under no obligation to fight fair.
Yep. Whether an attacker is unarmed or not, I do not consent, and will not be forced into participating in a fist fight. I'm not interested in proving how much of a man I am, and fist fights can turn deadly pretty quickly. I've heard of people dying from getting punched in the throat, temple, nose, or falling and hitting their head on a curb. If someone tries to engage me in a fight (which I wouldn't have started, and would have attempted to de-escalate), they're going to be meeting my little friend.
 
I whole-heartedly admit that I do not possess any MMA skills.  Indeed, I don't go around starting problems with others, either.  Like you, I will defend myself from unprovoked and unwarranted violent aggression.  Fist fights are for drunks and kids.
 
			
					
				Re: Brownsville Herald Poll "Are opposed to the new open carry gun law in Texas?"
				Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 2:34 am
				by Syntyr
				88.1 saying they are not opposed to open carry!
 
 
			
					
				Re: Brownsville Herald Poll "Are opposed to the new open carry gun law in Texas?"
				Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 2:53 am
				by bortaz
				maintenanceguy wrote:The Herald should proof read it's headlines.
I'm not really sure what the poll question is asking.
I get a lot of entertainment out ofreading the articles on the valley newspaper/TV news websites, and mocking the illiteracy of the "journalist". Especially on valleycentral.com. You're lucky to find 1 out of every 10 English words spelled correctly. Context eludes them, too, so often even if the word is spelled correctly, it'll be used incorrectly. You can bet they do a fine job on the Spanish, though. It's obvious they couldn't care less about learning English here in the valley. The TV news man-on-the-street interviews are almost exclusively in Spanish.
One article on valleycentral.com was so badly written, and I harassed them so badly about it...they finally just gave up and deleted the article. Ahaha...good times.
I don't think most Texans or most Americans realize there are parts of the country like we have down here.
 
			
					
				Re: Brownsville Herald Poll "Are opposed to the new open carry gun law in Texas?"
				Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:58 am
				by Glockster
				Now up to 88.6%.   

 
			
					
				Re: Brownsville Herald Poll "Are opposed to the new open carry gun law in Texas?"
				Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 12:40 pm
				by The Annoyed Man
				Yes. 11.4%
No. 88.6%
			 
			
					
				Re: Brownsville Herald Poll "Are opposed to the new open carry gun law in Texas?"
				Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 1:21 pm
				by xd9sc
				Now 88.8% No.  

 
			
					
				Re: Brownsville Herald Poll "Are opposed to the new open carry gun law in Texas?"
				Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 2:48 pm
				by eureka40
				89.1   

 
			
					
				Re: Brownsville Herald Poll "Are opposed to the new open carry gun law in Texas?"
				Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 6:18 pm
				by E.Marquez
				Up to 89.3 now.... 

 
			
					
				Re: Brownsville Herald Poll "Are opposed to the new open carry gun law in Texas?"
				Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:05 pm
				by Pawpaw
				What the heck... I hadn't voted from my iPad yet.
Now it's up to 89.5%  

 
			
					
				Re: Brownsville Herald Poll "Are opposed to the new open carry gun law in Texas?"
				Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2015 9:32 pm
				by airboss
				89.7. Love it.
			 
			
					
				Re: Brownsville Herald Poll "Are opposed to the new open carry gun law in Texas?"
				Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2015 11:32 pm
				by ELB
				90 even.  

 
			
					
				Re: Brownsville Herald Poll "Are opposed to the new open carry gun law in Texas?"
				Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 12:11 am
				by twomillenium
				K.Mooneyham wrote:jt88 wrote:bigity wrote:86% - and whole 'less of a man argument' is stupid.  I'm not going to start a fight, and if someone starts a deadly confrontation to me, I'm under no obligation to fight fair.
Yep. Whether an attacker is unarmed or not, I do not consent, and will not be forced into participating in a fist fight. I'm not interested in proving how much of a man I am, and fist fights can turn deadly pretty quickly. I've heard of people dying from getting punched in the throat, temple, nose, or falling and hitting their head on a curb. If someone tries to engage me in a fight (which I wouldn't have started, and would have attempted to de-escalate), they're going to be meeting my little friend.
 
I whole-heartedly admit that I do not possess any MMA skills.  Indeed, I don't go around starting problems with others, either.  Like you, I will defend myself from unprovoked and unwarranted violent aggression.  Fist fights are for drunks and kids.
 
 
 Besides, fist fights hurt and I don't do pain well, unless it is self inflicted and then I think I just finally got use to it.