Would never expect this in Texas.

I see it plain and clear that they state government was caving to pressure over NOTHING. They were doing their job, actually. Directing traffic on State roads is what the DOT does.

In my opinion, if they purposfully DO NOT provide that service for a major event, they could, and should, be held liable for negative impacts from the traffic.
 
I see it plain and clear that they state government was caving to pressure over NOTHING. They were doing their job, actually. Directing traffic on State roads is what the DOT does.

In my opinion, if they purposfully DO NOT provide that service for a major event, they could, and should, be held liable for negative impacts from the traffic.

Traffic is not the issue, caving in is. Channel 13 reported it, sensationally, I might add, showing pictures of a common rental billboard. Like we have all seen advertising gun shows for years.

The issue is "politically correct" and "feel good about what we are doing mentality." To hades with the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Boys we are heading towards a deep, deep crevice with our guns in tow.
 
Here in Asheville, NC there is a gun show the day after tomorrow. Yesterday a Councilman from Asheville city council got up on his hind legs and said he thought the law banning guns on city property should apply to the gun show. Another councilman said he agreed with this position. Trouble is the gun show is at the WNC Ag center which is owned by the state. This statement is on the Ag center website;

The Western North Carolina Agricultural Center is owned by the STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
and operated by the NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE & CONSUMER SERVICES.

Steve Troxler, Commissioner of Agriculture

Whisky, Tango, Foxtrot! Did these idiots not realize the gun show was on state property and not on city property? Their statements were repeated in the paper and on the evening News. The city of Asheville is a bit like San Francisco, but the surrounding area is fairly conservative. Perhaps I ought to write to the editor of the newspaper and suggest that if the city council wants to tell us what can and cannot take place on state owned property they ought to run statewide.

I don't really have a "problem" with rules saying I cannot carry at the city offices, but the city ownes venues like the US Cellular center where we have had gun shows for years. NC Law forbids carrying at "events" ie where tickets are sold. There is no State law forbiding carrying at gunshows (of course). Still, we are not allowed to carry loaded guns and they disable the firearm with a zip tie. Sellers routinely cut those off if they have an obviously interested buyer. Still, I have known for 40 plus years that there are anti gunners who are more than happy to secretly load guns at gun shows hoping to create an ND.

Asheville, Cary and Chapel Hill are embarrassments to NC anymore. The majority of the recent "immigrants" would fit right in in Frisco.
 
I see it plain and clear that they state government was caving to pressure over NOTHING. They were doing their job, actually. Directing traffic on State roads is what the DOT does.

In my opinion, if they purposfully DO NOT provide that service for a major event, they could, and should, be held liable for negative impacts from the traffic.

A gun show in Houston is not a major event. The traffic pattern is spread over two weekend days and is nothing like having 80,000 people coming and going to an event in a five hour span of time. The TXDOT electronic billboard notices for gun shows are more a courtesy to folks unfamiliar with the downtown and Reliant Center areas than traffic notifications. The decision was reversed anyway.
 
Apparently, the decision to stop the billboard directions came from a local office, and was over ruled by the state head office. This indicates the Houston area office is possibly influenced by its political constituants "ahem" leanings. Blue?
 
Apparently, the decision to stop the billboard directions came from a local office, and was over ruled by the state head office. This indicates the Houston area office is possibly influenced by its political constituants "ahem" leanings. Blue?

Having been born in Houston in the mid 1950s as a third generation Houstonian, I can tell you for a fact that Houston is Blue, with a bunch of Red, and White mixed in.
 
They do not teach anything about firearms in school (which they should), the only way they learn about them growing up around them or violence on the news and they both make a huge impact.

God bless the 5th grade teacher at my school who on Pearl Harbor Day taught the kids about WWII. these kids had NO IDEA that it ever happened. And as far as guns go, she is teaching them the constitution and what each amendment is about. Around the time they got to Second Amendment was about the same time Newtown happened...and she stuck to it, she is one of the other pro gun ownership. The kids were freaking out about people owning guns, and the teacher flat out told them she owned one. And the kids were shocked by that! (most of our school faculty and staff are Obama supporters, as is the surrounding community)

Later she confessed to me that it was not exactly true she has a gun, she has 3.

And then I got envious as one is her daddy's Colt .45

Anyway, it is not in curriculum, but some of us are doing what we can.

back to the OP, gun show this weekend, I am sure I'll see the TxDot signs. As if no one in the area doesn't know where it will be! (Pasadena, in case you're wondering ;) )
 
I don't think they can charge for driving information. I see lost children posted---armed robberies---kidnapps and such all the time.
Blessings
 
On average, one child under the age of six dies each day in auto crashes in America. That's about 365 a year.

Why have we not banned billboards advertising cars out of respect? I am disgusted at our insensitivity.
 
Pretty well deals with the first amendment, as well as the second. Most Depts of Transportation don't have the authority to overturn the Constitution.

Do you REALLY think that *they* would stop at the Second Amendment?
The First, Fourth & Fifth are kind of a pain too - And how about some of those others?
We really need to get this population under control :cool: - Eh?
 
It seems like we are turning into East California or West New York here in texas thanks to the exodus from the coasts. (please-no disrepect meant to the citizens of either, I reference the POLITICIANS!)
 
Boys,

In my opinion this is totally not about directions , on a sign, telling us how to get to a gun show. It is a chip out of our statue of freedoms.
 
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