If you go shopping in Huntsville, Texas, you’re likely to run into a local preacher with an assault rifle slung across his back. Beginning last week, Pastor Terry Holcomb started posting videos of himself wandering into local businesses with an AR-15 Bushmaster rifle — the same weapon used to kill 20 children and six adults in the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting.
In one video, Holcomb wanders about a Walmart for several minutes before he is approached by two store employees and asked to leave. He argues briefly with those two employees until a manager approaches and threatens to call the police if he does not exit the store. Although Holcomb then agrees to leave the store, he refuses a request to stop videoing the engagement — at one point, his camera man claims the recording is for Holcomb’s “safety.”
this is evangelical interpretation of love thy neighbor Texas style.
Holcomb told a local news station that the purpose of his conspicuously armed visits to Huntsville businesses is to protest a Texas law which permits gun owners to openly carry long rifles but not handguns, which must be concealed and can only be carried by individuals with valid concealed carry permits.Yet, while a legal regime that regulates handguns more strictly than assault rifles may seem counter-intuitive, it is entirely sensible to apply stricter regulations to handguns than to other firearms in light of the fact that handguns are so frequently used to commit homicides. According to the FBI, there were approximately 47,500 murders committed with a gun in 2001-2005. Almost 8 in 10 of these murders were committed with a handgun:
let's look at the logic AR-15 or other assault rifles can be carried and have more regulation, thought that was a 4 letter word in Texas. ok they can be seen and give you an option to run or pull yours, concealed potential; you will never see it coming and they walk among you waiting for the moment they can get their Wyatt Earp on. makes sense to them.
what will happen when those who make these death warrants kids start to drop like flies living in that environment of everybody strapped bound to happen, do the do something or hold that gun a little tighter?
what does his congregation do at prayer time, clean their guns?
