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

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, laws and rules, and more.

STATE OF TEXAS FEES:*

The initial license is $140.00 and is issued for a minimum of 4 years. The license will expire on your next birthday after 4 years have passed. For Active Duty Military, Reserves, National Guard and veterans honorably discharged within the last 365 days, the initial fees are $0.00 (zero, nothing, gratis). For veterans honorably discharged over 365 days, the initial fee is 1/2 price ($70.00).

The renewal license fee to the state is $70.00. You will be issued a 5 year license.

If you are 60 years of age or older when DPS receives the application, the initial fee is $70.00 and $35.00 every 5 years thereafter.

After taking the class, an applicant has up to two years to send the paperwork and fee to the state, however, renewals have only six (6) months after they take the class, to send their renewal application to DPS.

*There are some differences for military persons, check the state site for detail.

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