Abortion Barbie Wendy Davis Now Supports Gun Rights & Open Carry

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AUSTIN — The Wild West tradition of openly carrying your six-shooter on the street has long been banned in Texas under state law. But the next governor could change that. Rising Democratic star and gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis has joined her top Republican rival in supporting a proposed “open carry” law. It would allow people with concealed handgun licenses to wear a pistol on their hip, in full view, while in public.


Davis has said she supports expanding gun rights in Texas. In a statement to The Associated Press, she said that includes open-carry — a position that puts her at odds with her own party but could keep her from alienating gun rights advocates in a deeply conservative state where the Second Amendment is sacrosanct. Davis’ position now aligns her with her Republican gubernatorial rival, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, marking her latest effort to eliminate it as a wedge issue in the campaign.


The state senator from Fort Worth said such a law should allow private property owners to determine whether weapons could be openly carried on their property. She also said background checks and training requirements would “help ensure that only mentally stable, law-abiding citizens may carry, whether concealed or open.”


But her party and influential Democratic colleagues, including a fellow state senator running for lieutenant governor, disagree. “There is little or no public safety justification for open carry,” said Emmanuel Garcia, spokesman for the Texas Democratic Party. Kellye Burke, who leads the Texas Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, also opposes Davis’ position. She said the open carry of firearms, whether rifles or pistols, “is meant to be a sign of intimidation. It’s not about protection.” “I don’t think people are aware of it. They just haven’t seen it yet. People are completely shocked how strange and lawless it looks to have that kind of firepower in our daily life,” Burke said.


History suggests that Davis’ position is a pragmatic one. Former Gov. Ann Richards, a Democrat, vetoed a concealed handgun measure, but Republican George W. Bush made it a major campaign issue when he defeated Richards for governor in 1994. Texas passed its concealed handgun law the next year.


Davis, who said she keeps a gun at her home for protection, supported legislation last year to allow college students with concealed handgun licenses to keep their weapons in their cars. She also voted for reduced training requirements to get such a license.


Still, gun rights advocates were skeptical. Texas State Rifle Association spokeswoman Alice Tripp noted Davis’ previous calls for more restrictions on gun show sales and past votes against allowing concealed license holders to carry their guns in classrooms and buildings on college campuses. “Wendy Davis has a very bad record as far as gun owners go,” Tripp said, calling Davis an “opportunist.”


Abbott spokesman Adviel Huerta expressed a similar sentiment. “Sen. Wendy Davis’ new pro-gun stance may help improve her low grade with the NRA, but it won’t help her (be) a straight shooter when it comes to the facts of her anti-gun record,” Huerta said, noting that Abbott supported an open-carry bill in the 2013 legislative session.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/poli...g-abbott-in-supporting-open-carry-gun-law.ece

:rofl2:

Got caught in her lies and now all of a sudden she supports gun rights and open carry....desperation is setting in.
 
StormX said:
AUSTIN — The Wild West tradition of openly carrying your six-shooter on the street has long been banned in Texas under state law. But the next governor could change that. Rising Democratic star and gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis has joined her top Republican rival in supporting a proposed “open carry” law. It would allow people with concealed handgun licenses to wear a pistol on their hip, in full view, while in public.


Davis has said she supports expanding gun rights in Texas. In a statement to The Associated Press, she said that includes open-carry — a position that puts her at odds with her own party but could keep her from alienating gun rights advocates in a deeply conservative state where the Second Amendment is sacrosanct. Davis’ position now aligns her with her Republican gubernatorial rival, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, marking her latest effort to eliminate it as a wedge issue in the campaign.


The state senator from Fort Worth said such a law should allow private property owners to determine whether weapons could be openly carried on their property. She also said background checks and training requirements would “help ensure that only mentally stable, law-abiding citizens may carry, whether concealed or open.”


But her party and influential Democratic colleagues, including a fellow state senator running for lieutenant governor, disagree. “There is little or no public safety justification for open carry,” said Emmanuel Garcia, spokesman for the Texas Democratic Party. Kellye Burke, who leads the Texas Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, also opposes Davis’ position. She said the open carry of firearms, whether rifles or pistols, “is meant to be a sign of intimidation. It’s not about protection.” “I don’t think people are aware of it. They just haven’t seen it yet. People are completely shocked how strange and lawless it looks to have that kind of firepower in our daily life,” Burke said.


History suggests that Davis’ position is a pragmatic one. Former Gov. Ann Richards, a Democrat, vetoed a concealed handgun measure, but Republican George W. Bush made it a major campaign issue when he defeated Richards for governor in 1994. Texas passed its concealed handgun law the next year.


Davis, who said she keeps a gun at her home for protection, supported legislation last year to allow college students with concealed handgun licenses to keep their weapons in their cars. She also voted for reduced training requirements to get such a license.


Still, gun rights advocates were skeptical. Texas State Rifle Association spokeswoman Alice Tripp noted Davis’ previous calls for more restrictions on gun show sales and past votes against allowing concealed license holders to carry their guns in classrooms and buildings on college campuses. “Wendy Davis has a very bad record as far as gun owners go,” Tripp said, calling Davis an “opportunist.”


Abbott spokesman Adviel Huerta expressed a similar sentiment. “Sen. Wendy Davis’ new pro-gun stance may help improve her low grade with the NRA, but it won’t help her (be) a straight shooter when it comes to the facts of her anti-gun record,” Huerta said, noting that Abbott supported an open-carry bill in the 2013 legislative session.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/poli...g-abbott-in-supporting-open-carry-gun-law.ece

:rofl2:

Got caught in her lies and now all of a sudden she supports gun rights and open carry....desperation is setting in.
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I remember hearing one thing about the Left. They stated "We have our extreme wing too, the difference is we don't listen to them and don't let them dictate our party."

This is fact because the majority of the Left do not want to end gun ownership like FOX NEWS sells. They simply want smart ownership.

But anyone can learn this by minimal research.......
 
Big Money said:
Maybe she wants a firearm handy to plug any fetus that makes a break for it? :dunno:
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What causes more death kid? Abortion or Unnecessary war?

http://icasualties.org/OEF/Fatalities.aspx (that is only Afganistan. We are still in Iraq spending and dying)

Your fallback of Abortion humors me because it does the very thing the Right wants the most. It keeps non-responsible moms from being moms and then keeping future neglected children from being criminals;


The argument is that MEN can leave the instant they get a woman pregnant. The woman doesn't have that choice. Hence (choice).

We can end abortion with the right steps. But the very people who stand against abortion are making laws to prevent those steps...
 
StormX said:
AUSTIN — The Wild West tradition of openly carrying your six-shooter on the street has long been banned in Texas under state law. But the next governor could change that. Rising Democratic star and gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis has joined her top Republican rival in supporting a proposed “open carry” law. It would allow people with concealed handgun licenses to wear a pistol on their hip, in full view, while in public.


Davis has said she supports expanding gun rights in Texas. In a statement to The Associated Press, she said that includes open-carry — a position that puts her at odds with her own party but could keep her from alienating gun rights advocates in a deeply conservative state where the Second Amendment is sacrosanct. Davis’ position now aligns her with her Republican gubernatorial rival, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, marking her latest effort to eliminate it as a wedge issue in the campaign.


The state senator from Fort Worth said such a law should allow private property owners to determine whether weapons could be openly carried on their property. She also said background checks and training requirements would “help ensure that only mentally stable, law-abiding citizens may carry, whether concealed or open.”


But her party and influential Democratic colleagues, including a fellow state senator running for lieutenant governor, disagree. “There is little or no public safety justification for open carry,” said Emmanuel Garcia, spokesman for the Texas Democratic Party. Kellye Burke, who leads the Texas Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, also opposes Davis’ position. She said the open carry of firearms, whether rifles or pistols, “is meant to be a sign of intimidation. It’s not about protection.” “I don’t think people are aware of it. They just haven’t seen it yet. People are completely shocked how strange and lawless it looks to have that kind of firepower in our daily life,” Burke said.


History suggests that Davis’ position is a pragmatic one. Former Gov. Ann Richards, a Democrat, vetoed a concealed handgun measure, but Republican George W. Bush made it a major campaign issue when he defeated Richards for governor in 1994. Texas passed its concealed handgun law the next year.


Davis, who said she keeps a gun at her home for protection, supported legislation last year to allow college students with concealed handgun licenses to keep their weapons in their cars. She also voted for reduced training requirements to get such a license.


Still, gun rights advocates were skeptical. Texas State Rifle Association spokeswoman Alice Tripp noted Davis’ previous calls for more restrictions on gun show sales and past votes against allowing concealed license holders to carry their guns in classrooms and buildings on college campuses. “Wendy Davis has a very bad record as far as gun owners go,” Tripp said, calling Davis an “opportunist.”


Abbott spokesman Adviel Huerta expressed a similar sentiment. “Sen. Wendy Davis’ new pro-gun stance may help improve her low grade with the NRA, but it won’t help her (be) a straight shooter when it comes to the facts of her anti-gun record,” Huerta said, noting that Abbott supported an open-carry bill in the 2013 legislative session.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/poli...g-abbott-in-supporting-open-carry-gun-law.ece

:rofl2:

Got caught in her lies and now all of a sudden she supports gun rights and open carry....desperation is setting in.
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Don't believe Davis, she will say anything to get elected, then once she is elected, gets her foot in the front door, she will slide back into her Liberal ways, which means systematically disarming US, piece by piece, no pun intended. Liberals are getting slicker every year, as if that was possible, so here I am trying to splain things to ya. I said it in the past and I will say it again, Libs are much "moore two faced" than Conservatives who try to reason everything out, sometimes to their own detriment. Read this Forum, if something sounds politically sneaky, it was probably posted by a Liberal. Everyone by now should have recognized all the "Tricky Dick" stuff used by the Obama Administration to pull the wool over the Dumbed Down young people in America, Capisce? US older generation Folks get "It" and we need to get the word out to the dipsheets who vote, along with the Illegal Aliens jackasses who also try to vote....NO Immigration Reform Whatsoever...until after 2016, then we completely close down the borders with fences and then sort out the "trapped" illegals.
 
She lied about being a teenaged single mom who struggled to get through school, didn't she?


In her biography — a divorced teenage mother living in a trailer who earned her way to Harvard and political achievement — that her team is using to attract voters and boost fundraising, some facts have been blurred.


“I had a baby. I got divorced by the time I was 19 years old,” she testified in a recent federal lawsuit over redistricting. “After I got divorced, I lived in a mobile home park in southeast Fort Worth.”


“With the help of academic scholarships and student loans, Wendy not only became the first person in her family to earn a bachelor’s degree but graduated first in her class and was accepted to Harvard Law School,” her website says.


Davis was 21, not 19, when she was divorced.


She lived only a few months in the family mobile home while separated from her husband, then moved in with her mother before getting her own apartment.


She met Jeff Davis, a lawyer 13 years older than her, married him and had a second daughter.


He paid for two years at Texas Christian University and her time at Harvard Law School, and kept their two daughters while she was in Boston.


In November 2003, Wendy Davis moved out.


Jeff Davis said that was right around the time the final payment on their Harvard Law School loan was due. “It was ironic,” he said. “I made the last payment, and it was the next day she left.”


When they divorced in 2005, he was granted parental custody, and the girls stayed with him.


Davis acknowledged some errors in what she and her aides have said.


“My language should be tighter,” she said.




http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20140118-as-wendy-davis-touts-life-story-in-race-for-governor-key-facts-blurred.ece
 
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