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# Oh, please let me bring my gun with me to vote!
- URL: https://bayou-city-sludge.ghost.io/oh-please-let-me-bring-my-gun-with/
- Published: 2025-01-09T19:37:19.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-07T22:48:34.000Z
- Description: Please, sir, my gun. My gun is lonely. I take him with me everywhere. Please!
- Author: Sara Cress
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1794091451356, #Import 2026-11-07 22:47

While we wait for things to get started, I’m keeping an eye on the bills that are being pre-filed daily.

[HB1794](https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB1794/id/3043494?ref=bayou-city-sludge.ghost.io) was filed yesterday by Carl Tepper of Lubbock to allow concealed handgun license holders to bring their gun with them to voting locations.

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![Continued Service with Rep. Carl Tepper (U.S. Air Force)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/51/6d51d957-e70d-452f-8661-3823af319edd/content/images/2026/11/7a02cb68-e7b7-483a-b79a-4582d0c353c8_686x386-jpeg-1.jpg)

I believe Carl Tepper is the one on the right.

Not being a gun person myself, I am not aware of just how many Texans are in my space armed. If I knew I’d be freaked out. I had a birthday lunch last year at a Tex-Mex place and there was a bearded, sloppy guy across the room from us with a gun clinging to his belt sitting with a group also celebrating something, and I guess I’m glad I could see it so I knew to be horrified. I firmly believe that guns should be prohibited around margaritas.

I saw a video this week of a white blonde woman in athleisure wear pushing her two kids around Costco. She opened her little fanny pack that women all seem to wear on their chests now and smiled wide to the camera to show off her gun. There must be a word to describe the chilling feeling of disgust when I see women like this: dripping in wealth and abundance, capitalist-pilled, convinced that she’s under siege. Delulu, as the kids say.

I looked through Tepper’s other bills and I can’t make sense of [HB582](https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB582/2025?ref=bayou-city-sludge.ghost.io), “relating to proper etiquette during the recitation of the pledge of allegiance to the state flag.” One should stand and face the flag and previously could only put their hand over their heart. This bill adds that you can “extend \[your hand\] toward the flag at waist level with the elbow bent and the palm facing upward.”

Yes, in Texas, we legislate etiquette. It is kind of funny that this would look like you’re asking the flag for money.

Here’s a bill that would actually help people, filed by Ana Hernandez (D) of Houston yesterday, [HB1788](https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB1788/id/3043620?ref=bayou-city-sludge.ghost.io): *relating to continuing education for barbers and cosmetologists on identifying and assisting victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, and human trafficking.*

One of my freelance clients is the SAFE Alliance in Austin, which serves the survivors of child abuse, sexual assault and exploitation, and domestic violence. In my two years working for them, I’ve learned a lot. It makes sense that victims of violence and trafficking are afraid to speak up, but somewhere in your brain you think, “I’d never get caught up in that, and if I did, I’d tell someone.” But these are extremely vulnerable people. Their brains have been rewired by trauma. So having barbers and stylists know the signs and language to use and knowledge of resources is really smart.

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