any that has changed how to encourage folk to carry?
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Not sure what you're getting at. Pretty much everyone I know here in Texas is into the 2A--even the democrat voters I know. However, because currently you can only carry a modern day handgun on your person, concealed, and with a really expensive (as compared to most other states) permission slip, it prevents a lot of people from obtaining the CHL and carrying.
If there was no CHL requirement, or if we did indeed have unlicensed OC here, you would see a lot more people in Texas carrying.
Just because Texas law hasn't favored supporters of the 2A, compared to many other states, doesn't make Texans themselves anti-gun or anti-carry. The legislature here is designed to make it difficult to pass laws--which helps to prevent bad laws from passing...but, on the other side of the coin, it also makes it difficult to get good laws passed and bad laws repealed.
In Texas you do not need a license or anything to carry a pistol in your glove box. It would be interesting to know what percentage of vehicles here have a gun in the glove box. I suspect it's a pretty good percentage. Now if it was illegal to carry a gun in your glove box unless you had a $200+ license, I suspect that percentage would be rather small. My point is, the CHL here is prohibitively expensive for many people. If it was cheaper, many many more people would be carrying because many many more people would be able to afford it. Comparing North Carolina to Texas, in this respect, is like comparing apples to oranges. You are trying to make out that Texans do not like their 2A rights as much as folks from NC--which is simply not true. It's the law and the expensive license requirements that have prevented Texans from carrying. Laws that are, by design, difficult to change--yet a bunch of us here keep working on it and we're making steps. Thumbing your nose at, or poking fun at Texans just because we've had some bad laws and expensive license requirements in the past, absolutely does not change the fact that Texans love their guns and an awful lot would be carrying if it were legal for them to do so.