Knife Rights Texas Knife Law Reform Bill Passes Out of House Committee

[Critter]

[Post in General approved by Spark]

Knife Rights Texas Knife Law Reform Bill Passes Out of House Committee - The Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee held a hearing yesterday for HB 956 that would remove from statute a number of places where Location-Restricted Knives (having blades over 5 1/2 inches) are banned.

Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, gave testimony supporting the bill at the hearing (below at podium). This bill hearing and vote came about only after Todd spent weeks lobbying in Austin to gain support for the bill and to get the bill scheduled for a hearing.

After sponsor Representative Harold Dutton (Standing left in photo below)closed his own testimony by asking the committee to “free the knives,” HB 956 passed out of the committee on a unanimous bipartisan vote.

HB 956 would remove restaurants and bars that derive 51% of their income from sale or service of alcoholic beverages, amusement parks and places of religious worship from the places where Location Restricted Knives are banned.

We will let you know when need you to contact legislators to support this bill.

More details at https://kniferights.org/legislative-update/texas-knife-law-reform-bill-passes-out-of-committee/

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[The_Knife_Man]

Let's go Texas!!!

 

[midnight flyer]

This is a good plan. Almost all of my work knives are in the 4" range and lock. I wear my shirt tail out, so (intentionally) almost no one ever knows that I carry a knife for any reason. Never actually had any problems carrying any of them over the last few decades, but with this changing society's values and demands, problems could be around the corner for someone like me that doesn't want to leave anything valuable in the truck while I am away from it.

Texas has long been a place if interest of studies for all manner of personal rights, mostly studies looking for data to support their views of more restrictive personal rights and living conditions. It has been about 25 years since Texas licensed concealed carry and it is estimated about 1.5 million have their licenses by now, and probably another 1 million Texas stay armed without license. (I personally think it is more...)

Unlike the anticipated results from certain groups, we have actually followed the national trends of violent crime including gun crime reduction. Check out the "cites":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_and_gun_control_in_Texas

Other states have tried to follow the Texas model for allowing concealed weapon permits for carry and have reported different results. Knowing Texas was in the fishbowl nationally, more studies than can be referenced have been generated here in the State as well by other "third party, objective" entities. Almost without exception they all come back with concealed carry having "no effect" or "reduction" of crime. As with any "study", data can easily be skewed, so once the original findings of no gun violence increase came out, gun control advocates have tried over and over for years to make the point that an armed citizenry is dangerous to itself. So far, not much luck on that.

The point being that carrying knife in the midst of all of this bizarre political and societal climate is of little or no consequence to any one I know, even the most "progressive" of them. Texas has been so lax in their knife laws and their enforcement that most folks don't even realize that there is such a thing as knife carry restrictions. So this is a really good thing as it will keep people like me from wondering if I need to lock my knife up when I go to a game at a sports bar straight from work or meet my wife for dinner and forget I have one of my work knives on my person. It just kind of legitimizes what has gone on here for the last 10 years or so.

Robert