Typically those signs are used to tell event attendees the route they should take to get to the event end to help spread traffic flows on weekends with multiple events.
I wonder if they will cave on this by the time the NRA annual meeting comes in May.
“We had several people say ‘Hey, this is bad timing,’” said Stuart Corder, director of transportation operations for TxDOT’s Houston district. “We understand there is a wide a range of opinions, and we’ve got to be sensitive to people’s concerns.”
No, dickhead, you do not. You apparently only have to be sensitive to some people’s concerns. I swear, when it comes to guns sometimes it’s hard to admit I’m from Texas.
State transportation department officials on Thursday overruled a decision by the Houston district office to stop putting directions to gun shows on freeway message signs.
Translation: Gov Perry heard about it and said “Oh Hell no.”
January 4th, 2013 at 10:31 am
Make the law abiding pay for the crimes of others.
Lump us in with the scum.
Then we deserve no better than what happens to them.
I, or one, refuse to be grouped with the criminals and psychopaths.
January 4th, 2013 at 10:42 am
It was a knee-jerk by the local TxDOT office which was quickly kiboshed by HQ:
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/TxDOT-halts-directional-signs-for-gun-shows-4164921.php
January 4th, 2013 at 11:02 am
Typically those signs are used to tell event attendees the route they should take to get to the event end to help spread traffic flows on weekends with multiple events.
I wonder if they will cave on this by the time the NRA annual meeting comes in May.
January 4th, 2013 at 11:48 am
“We had several people say ‘Hey, this is bad timing,’” said Stuart Corder, director of transportation operations for TxDOT’s Houston district. “We understand there is a wide a range of opinions, and we’ve got to be sensitive to people’s concerns.”
No, dickhead, you do not. You apparently only have to be sensitive to some people’s concerns. I swear, when it comes to guns sometimes it’s hard to admit I’m from Texas.
January 6th, 2013 at 8:22 am
teke, they already got reversed like Mike says:
Translation: Gov Perry heard about it and said “Oh Hell no.”