There's more: Texas also has ocean shoreline, several port facilities, industrial and energy-producing facilities, world-class medical and computer tech industries, no state income taxation, a legislature that only meets every other year, a nationally-significant agricultural sector (in the Rio Grande valley), world-class higher ed. infrastructure, the 4th largest city in the country, and the 3rd highest state population.
And more importantly: Texas is on its own power grid. There's the Eastern Grid(east of the Mississippi); the Western Grid (west of the Mississippi); and, the Texas Grid. Which means the rest of the country can't threaten to shut our power down to force our compliance with their demands.
And most importantly of all: there are approximately 4.6 privately-owned guns per capita (2019 population: 29.1 million). That means Texas, alone, has the same firepower as the Federal Republic of Germany.
Edit: I wrote this at 4am--sorry. It should have said we have no state income tax, and there should be a decimal point to read 4.6, rather than 46. Thank you all for your forbearance.
There is no required registration for gun ownership in Texas, except for specific weapons/accessories. If you look at registration, Texas has the highest count by far. However, the vast majority of those registrations are not guns.
Gun ownership rate estimations vary widely, but in the neighborhood of 35-43%. OP evidently found a 46% number and believed it was 46 guns per capita. There is estimated to be only about 400 million firearms in the nation and 28 million Texans, creating a math problem.
It's about what you'd expect from somebody claiming Texas has the right to leave the union without Federal consent. We did have the right to split into multiple states, but there's a funny thing about laws and agreements - you don't know what they mean until you try to exercise them.
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There's more: Texas also has ocean shoreline, several port facilities, industrial and energy-producing facilities, world-class medical and computer tech industries, no state income taxation, a legislature that only meets every other year, a nationally-significant agricultural sector (in the Rio Grande valley), world-class higher ed. infrastructure, the 4th largest city in the country, and the 3rd highest state population.
And more importantly: Texas is on its own power grid. There's the Eastern Grid(east of the Mississippi); the Western Grid (west of the Mississippi); and, the Texas Grid. Which means the rest of the country can't threaten to shut our power down to force our compliance with their demands.
And most importantly of all: there are approximately 4.6 privately-owned guns per capita (2019 population: 29.1 million). That means Texas, alone, has the same firepower as the Federal Republic of Germany.
Edit: I wrote this at 4am--sorry. It should have said we have no state income tax, and there should be a decimal point to read 4.6, rather than 46. Thank you all for your forbearance.
Gonna need a sauce on the privately owned guns per capita. That’s 46x29M? Somethings off...
There is no required registration for gun ownership in Texas, except for specific weapons/accessories. If you look at registration, Texas has the highest count by far. However, the vast majority of those registrations are not guns.
Gun ownership rate estimations vary widely, but in the neighborhood of 35-43%. OP evidently found a 46% number and believed it was 46 guns per capita. There is estimated to be only about 400 million firearms in the nation and 28 million Texans, creating a math problem.
It's about what you'd expect from somebody claiming Texas has the right to leave the union without Federal consent. We did have the right to split into multiple states, but there's a funny thing about laws and agreements - you don't know what they mean until you try to exercise them.