AT LAST, YOU CAN CARRY A SWORD IN TEXAS

Setting aside the flooding in Houston for a moment … as of last Friday Texans are now legally allowed to carry blades longer than 5.5 inches in most places. This includes openly carrying the famous Jim Bowie knife, as well as daggers, dirks, throwing knives, stilettos, poniards, swords, machetes and spears. Although Texans will be allowed to walk down the street carrying a katana, there are a few places you can’t carry blades:
– Bars and restaurants that derive 51% or more of their income from the sale or service of alcoholic beverages for on-premise consumption
– Schools and universities
– Polling places
– Secure areas of airports
– Racetracks
– High school, collegiate or professional sporting events
– Correctional facilities
– Hospitals, nursing homes and mental hospitals
– Amusement parks
– Churches, synagogues or other established places of religious worship
* Glad they threw correctional facilities in there.
* Yeah, I had to look up “poniard”, too. It’s a long, light dagger, like a mini-sword.
* I’ll see your sword, and raise you a battle-axe.
* Texas is going to start looking like one big Renaissance Festival.
* Texans need swords, in case the musket jams and Santa Anna’s army starts overrunning the walls. Also, to move things along at the Walmart checkout.