In
the wake of increasingly large and frequent protests by the open carry gun nuts, the Texas House of Representatives approved rules that would
allow for the installation of panic buttons and give representatives the
power to have "hostile" citizens summarily ejected from their offices,
The Houston Chronicle reports.The day before these rules were
passed, members of Open Carry Tarrant County spent time visiting the
offices of lawmakers who opposed House Bill 195, which would overturn
the state's 125-year-long ban on openly carrying handguns.
Two
Democratic representatives - Poncho Nevarez and Celia Israel - claimed
that members of Open Carry Tarrant County harassed them. A Facebook post
by group member Kory Watkins bears out Nevarez's claim:
In the
video, agitators can be heard berating the seated representative.
"You're a tyrant to the Constitution!" one yelled. "You won't be here
very long!" shouted another.
"I'm asking you to leave my office," Rep. Nevarez told Watkins.
"You need to leave my state," Watkins replied.
When
the representative attempted to retreat into his office, the agitator
placed his foot in the door to prevent him from doing so.
Watkins
replied to criticism of that particular action on Facebook, writing
that "[i]f a foot in the door of a tyrant's office bothers you more than
a tyrant mocking the people and the Constitution, you are the problem."
He then added, "[w]onder how the jews turned out begging Hitler for
their rights back. Maybe they should have put their foot in the door!"
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