{"id":103896,"date":"2022-10-31T14:17:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T14:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=103896"},"modified":"2022-10-31T14:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T14:17:32","slug":"texas-goes-permitless-on-guns-and-police-face-an-armed-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=103896","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Texas Goes Permitless on Guns, and Police Face an Armed Public&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/26\/us\/texas-guns-permitless.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;Far from an outlier, Texas, with its new law, joined what has been an expanding effort to remove nearly all restrictions on carrying handguns. When Alabama\u2019s \u201cpermitless carry\u201d law goes into effect in January, half of the states in the nation,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usconcealedcarry.com\/resources\/terminology\/types-of-concealed-carry-licensurepermitting-policies\/unrestricted\/#:~:text=Constitutional%20carry%3A%20Constitutional%20carry%20means,no%20state%20permit%20is%20required.\" target=\"_blank\">from Maine to Arizona<\/a>, will not require a license to carry a handgun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state-by-state legislative push has coincided with a federal judiciary that has increasingly ruled in favor of carrying guns and against state efforts to regulate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Texas is the most populous state to do away with handgun permit requirements. Five of the nation\u2019s 15 biggest cities are in Texas, making the permitless approach to handguns a new fact of life in urban areas to an extent not seen in other states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the border town of Eagle Pass, drunken arguments have flared into shootings. In El Paso, revelers who legally bring their guns to parties have opened fire to stop fights. In and around Houston, prosecutors have received a growing stream of cases involving guns brandished or fired over parking spots, bad driving, loud music and love triangles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt seems like now there\u2019s been a tipping point where just everybody is armed,\u201d said Sheriff Ed Gonzalez of Harris County, which includes Houston.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;Far from an outlier, Texas, with its new law, joined what has been an expanding effort to remove nearly all restrictions on carrying handguns. When Alabama\u2019s \u201cpermitless carry\u201d law goes into effect in January, half of the states in the nation,\u00a0from Maine to Arizona, will not require a license to carry a handgun&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103897,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103896\/revisions\/103897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}