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The website Personal Liberty is carrying a story about "Kory Watkins, leader of Open Carry Tarrant County, [who] recently posted a chilling video to his Facebook page that appears to level threats at Texas state lawmakers."
Personal Liberty Article said:The video .... appears to build on Watkins’ veiled threats to the office of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick last week.
He ... suggestthat failure to open Texas up to open carry of pistols without any licensing requirements is tantamount to treason.
“We should demanding these people give us our rights back or it’s punishable by death. Treason. Do you understand how serious this is Texas?” Watkins asks. “This is treason against the American people. You don’t sell my right back to me. You’re going to find trouble.”
Earlier in the video, he suggests the time has come for guns rights activists to move beyond peaceful protests.
“I don’t think they want to mess around with us too much longer. They better start giving us our rights or this peaceful non-cooperation stuff is going to be gamed up. We are going to step it up a notch. I think here in Texas we are tired of jacking around with people in suits,” Watkins said.
One state representative, Democrat Poncho Nevarez is already under state protection after he spoke out against open carry legislation and was threatened.
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Fellow gun-rights activists were quick to denounce Watkin’s actions.
“That kind of rhetoric does absolutely nothing to get gun rights passed in Texas,” said CJ Grisham, head of Open Carry Texas.
Open Carry Texas, one of the main groups lobbying for open-carry legislation, has sought to distance themselves from the more aggressive antics of Open Carry Tarrant County and Watkins.
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“We’ve become Kory Watch instead of Open Carry Texas,” [Grisham] said.
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