You bring you guns, ill bring mine... to the Alamo

While looking through  the burka blog on the Texas Monthly,  I came across an interesting blog post about bringing guns to the Alamo to represent our 2nd amendment and the right to bear arms and how people should recognize that its still there as an amendment.

The author of this blog, and all other blogs on this website, is Paul Burka and he is aiming at audiences who carry guns and wants to show everyone else in the nation that we can still bear arms and show not only people, but also law enforcers that we are allowed to carry what’s known as "long guns" legally in Texas.  He makes the case that no matter what the federal law enforcement's do, you will not lose your privilege to hold a gun in Texas.  He brings up an interesting point when he explains how in the history of Texas when people showed up at the Alamo for the famous gun fight to and stand up for a tyrannical government the government has changed, but not the right and keep bear arms.  This is interesting because he is trying to explain that we still have our right to keep guns in our hands and by going to the Alamo we want to remind our citizens that we have our fundamental right to the 2^nd amendment.

He uses a lot of sources, and is very credible in his argument.  One example he uses is the New York Times post about Hundreds of “armed” demonstrators are planning to arrive at the Alamo to test limits of the gun laws in a very gun friendly state of the US.  They will do this by carrying many weapons ranging from assault weapons, shotguns, and other types of rifles.  He also brings up a quote from one of the most out spoken politicians he knows, Jerry Patterson about the history of the Alamo and how the last time guns were brought to the Alamo, they were used to fight against a tyrannical government.

I agree with the author of this blog, and its almost like a petition except for the fact that we are not wanting to change anything, we are just representing to the state and law enforces that we can carry guns.  Let’s just hope nothing dangerous happens since there are guns involved!