What’s wrong with Texas, Part 873,143

So I guy walks into the store this evening and wants to pay for his purchase with a credit card. Store policy requires to see a photo ID with all credit card purchases. Most people show a driver’s license. He says he doesn’t have his because he got in trouble drinking, was arrested a number of times and his driver’s license was suspended. So all he has with a photo on it is his concealed gun permit.

Let’s see, that means we have this drunken law breaker out there who can’t drive, but he can still shoot people. That’s Texas, for you.

Now before all you gun nuts start peppering me with comments, I know the guy is full of crap. Neither the state nor any other government entity physically takes a person’s driver’s license away from him; it is simply invalidated. But that makes it even worse. We live in a state where people feel the need to flash their concealed weapons permits to prove their manhood.