ANST - strange craziness in the texas legislature

[j'lynn yeates]

On 27 Sep 99, at 0:01, Dale Carroll wrote:

> According to both the Texas State Legislature's web site, the following act was
> indeed enacted on 6-19-99 and became effective on 9-1-99 as House Bill 2825.
> 
> (e)  The provisions of Section 46.02 prohibiting the carrying 1-24 of an
> illegal knife do not apply to an individual carrying a bowie 2-1 knife or a
> sword used in a historical demonstration or in a 2-2 ceremony in which the 
> knife or sword is significant to the 2-3 performance of the ceremony.

hmmmm ... still "performance / ceremonial centric" ... maybe now that the door 
has been opened a bit it can later be widened to enclude carry by those who 
find steel a cultural imperative. ... being keltoi by descent, the leaf bladed 
shortsword would be covered, might be a stretch to cover the wakisashi's though 
(my favored "sidearm")

'wolf
... "an armed society, is a *polite* society"  
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