Activists Concerned: Texas Open Carry Law Lets Guns In Mental Hospitals

Posted by | January 9, 2016 09:59 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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The Texas open carry law has activists worried.

Mental health advocates have condemned Texas’ new firearms law for allowing the open carry of guns in state psychiatric hospitals, arguing it could negatively impact patients’ treatments and could lead to an uptick in suicide rates.

The state hospital in Austin took down its signs banning guns this week, the Austin American-Statesman reported, though officials have requested that if visitors enter with their weapons, they at least keep them hidden.

“With the new law in effect, we are putting up signs asking licensed gun holders to conceal their firearms or leave them safely in their vehicles before going into our state mental health hospitals,” said Carrie Williams, a spokeswoman for the state health department. “While licensed visitors are legally permitted to carry on our hospital campuses, our patients are being actively treated for psychiatric conditions and generally it’s best not to expose them to weapons of any kind.”

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16 responses to Activists Concerned: Texas Open Carry Law Lets Guns In Mental Hospitals

  1. jybarz January 9th, 2016 at 10:11

    Now, who really are the crazy bastards?
    They’re are crazier than the mental patients.
    I hope the patients grab the bloody crazy gun-nuts’ guns and shoot them crazy bastards in the nuts.

    • illinoisboy1977 January 9th, 2016 at 10:31

      So, you HOPE for more gun violence. Got it.

      • anothertoothpick January 9th, 2016 at 12:36

        It is the gun nutters HOPE for violence. Why else do think they want to bring tools of death into a hospital? Show and tell?

        • illinoisboy1977 January 14th, 2016 at 13:16

          “I hope the patients grab the bloody crazy gun-nuts’ guns and shoot them crazy bastards in the nuts.”
          Yep, that was you, hoping for gun violence.

  2. frettadafrog January 9th, 2016 at 10:37

    I thought Reagan closed all mental hospitals, and thus throwing patients out on the streets. You mean there’s a few he missed?

  3. Mike January 9th, 2016 at 10:47

    Not seeing the big deal here…guns in a psych ward in Texas…isn’t that some kind of oxymoron or contradiction of terms…???

  4. rg9rts January 9th, 2016 at 11:32

    How about going into prisons ??

  5. TiredOldGuy49 January 9th, 2016 at 12:31

    What’s the problem? These are all patriotic, responsible, “good guys with a gun”. What could go wrong.

  6. Tommie January 9th, 2016 at 15:08

    Ridiculous!

    • whatthe46 January 9th, 2016 at 15:13

      it most certainly is. and nothing good is going to come from this. quite frankly, there will likely be a lot of minorities that are going to end up in the morgue because they will be seen as a threat by the police. the gov didn’t intend for people with brown skin to take advantage of this new law. this is going to get so ugly and so fast. criminals can also carry w/o fear of the police because they don’t have to show i.d. or any other proof.

  7. amongoose January 9th, 2016 at 15:21

    Question, do you have any problems with open or concealed carry laws in Maine and New Hampshire?

  8. amersham46 January 9th, 2016 at 19:37

    You are meaning the Texas House of Representatives and Texas Senate

  9. William January 10th, 2016 at 10:56

    https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CX2BH7ZUQAESIy8.mp4 What could possibly go wrong.

  10. Bunya January 14th, 2016 at 14:07

    Oh great! Now we’ll have to arm the patients to protect themselves from the visiting “bad guys with guns”. Hey, maybe the NRA will open a firearm kiosk in all mental health hospitals! Ain’t capitalism great?

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