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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by tree68</i> <br /><br /> I suspect that if you plopped one of the major metropolises down in the middle of Texas... <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Please don't take this wrong, but just exactly what do you think Houston, Dallas/Ft Worth, San Antonio and Austin are? And El Paso is bigger than all of them if you include Ciudad Juarez (and it does sort of operate as a quasi-single unit). <br /> <br />And as to the Panhandle, if you go there you'll find a whole lot of people (read very high percentage of the population) legally packing firearms, hidden and/or visible. Guns are just part of life there. Meet a 6-foot rattlesnake on the street or in your yard once and you'll understand why. My sister, who lives there in a very small town, legally packs a concealed pistol--there's a prison and a criminal mental institution right up the highway and that's about as good a reason as you can get. Everybody else in the family up there carries rifles--this is a rural area (as is all of the Panhandle) and you need a gun to protect yourself and your livestock and crops. <br /> <br />Ed is right. Our handgun laws have been on the books for many years, are extremely strict, and do not result in killing rampages. <br /> <br />And I don't know that I've ever seen a showdown on the streets at high noon... <br /> <br />As to our Canadian friend--dump your snow shovel and come on down. About half of your Canadian brethren already do. You'll find generally good weather, at least by Canadian standards, we sorta speak the same language, eh?, and the people are generally very friendly, even if some of them do legally pack guns. But it does get hot in the summer.[C):-)] <br /> <br />Well, gotta go now, like all other of us Texans, saddle up, check out my longhorn cattle herd, shoot a few Injuns, go to the hangin, meet the 7 o'clock stagecoach, and ride off into the sunset....[:D][}:)][(-D][(-D][:-,]
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