How to keep your 2nd Amendment Rights:

Pratt strongly recommends you work to preserve your right to self-defense by becoming a member of the National Rifle Association and the Texas State Rifle Association. Already an NRA member? The TSRA is the group that has done the work on Concealed Carry and preserves our rights in Texas.

Thoughts about guns, self defense and the 2nd Amendment:

The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
- Patrick Henry

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
-- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-188

...the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others...Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

What if the 2nd Amendment had read 'A literate population, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read books, shall not be infringed'? Would that allow the State to restrict books to libraries or require licenses for their posession? What about exceptionally dangerous or subversive books?
- J. Neil Schulman

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
- Thomas Jefferson

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceful citizens from keeping their own arms.
- Samuel Adams, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1788

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
- Samuel Adams

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
- William S. Burroughs

Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms under our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?
- Patrick Henry

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.
--Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787)

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
- William R. Inge

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
- William Orville Douglas, US Supreme Court

The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
- Erwin N. Griswold

Use this link for Concealed Handgun Licensing in Texas frequently asked questions, fees, laws and rules, and more.

Applying for concealed handgun license available online

Shooting & Range tips & other

	Texplainer: When Can Texans Use Deadly Force in Self-Defense?
	Dynamics of Encounters with street thugs, etc.
	CHL renewals no longer require new fingerprints or photos
	NOTE: New Mexico, Kansas and other states do NOT recognize a Utah issued concealed carry permit. NEW: Utah Fixing Utah: Senate moves to change gun permit rules
	911 audio from Indiana, when the police can't get there fast enough - Real life, Very dramatic. Be prepared.
	Armed Homeowner Shoots Robbers During Daytime Home Invasion (AZ) - see what a home invasion can look like on the outside
	Police urge holster use after man shoots his own penis
	Lawyer Promotes Anti-Gun Concealed Carry Myth
	An Alternate Look at Handgun Stopping Power - very interesting statistics.
	Opponents of Gun-Free Zones at Universities Find Unlikely Hero in Nevada Woman
	As homeowners retaliate against attackers, self-defense depends on the situation
	Surveillance video released of Walmart robbery - see how quickly this happens
	Anti-Democrat billboard has Lubbockites talking - fine friends of Pratt on Texas and where we do our CHL & NRA training shooting!
	Excellent source for gun rights statistics and analysis - Howard Nemerov
	Gun range provides dates a bang-up time
	How common are accidental firearms injuries?
	Pratt's essay on your right to self defense: Can Reasonable People Disagree on the Right to Self Defense? (pdf)
	Example of why you should be armed - bad language, etc.
	Changes to DPS Processing of CHL Applications
	Pistol grip - from the U.S. Army's Protips
	Ted Nugent explains gun rights and being a Free Man on Texas Monthly speaks
	Hear a real life story of armed self-defense as Billy Jackson tells story of shooting two men who were trying to rob him (Alternate link - should open in your media player.)
	Watchmaker chooses not to be a victim - many lessons here

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