New law brings Texas into the Middle Ages.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Next Week, Swords Are Legal To Carry Down The Street In Texas

New law brings Texas into the Middle Ages.

By Joe Patrice
Aug 23, 2017 at 12:51 PM

The new advertisement from the Texas Law Hawk highlights three significant legal changes taking effect next week. First, drivers can no longer text and drive. That’s the sort of straightforward, logical regulation Texas is known for when there isn’t a powerful, well-financed lobbying group on the other side. Second, drivers can, under some conditions, seal their first DUI conviction. The stigma of a conviction is real and one-time offenders who’ve paid their debt to society deserve to move on after DUIs as much as any other convict. Third, it’s legal to carry swords in public.

Oh. A lot of clamoring for this one, was there?

That ad was already better than this entire season of Game of Thrones. ... Maybe this is just covering the state’s commercial interests. With the Super Bowl considering a boycott of the state over its equally medieval “bathroom bill,” maybe this is just a signal to the world’s LARPers that Texas is open for business.

But for a state that’s always one legislative session away from authorizing Jeep-mounted .50 calibers so they can fully transform I-10 into Fury Road, legalizing the open carry of katanas is a move that surprises no one. Gun control advocates have long harped on the argument that the ahistorical reading of the Second Amendment that Texas legislators peddle to keep the gun manufacturing lobby dollars flowing ignores that — if we cared a wit about “the law as originally intended” — contemplated muskets and swords and not high-powered, long-distance accurate semi-automatic handguns. In Texas, legislators heard this and rather than reconsidering the importance of regulation in the modern age, responded with, “SWORDS! Wow, that’s a whole new way to compensate for penis size!”

[braddy]

1. Swords are legal in California

""In California, anything with a fixed blade (like a sword) must be worn in plain view. But sheathed knives worn openly are not considered illegal concealed weapons. However, if you're carrying a cane sword, you can be charged with a misdemeanor.Feb 7, 2014""

[cannabis_flower]

2. The SCA people will be happy

The Society for Creative Anachronism is a group that recreates the middle ages and goes to the Renaissance Festival a lot. I've had friends who got in trouble for wearing a sword, not as a weapon exactly but just to look cool. I think most people who have carried swords aren't using them for protection or as a weapon.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Are the horses and bayonets next??

[Javaman]

4. carry swords? fine.

here's mine...