CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Open carry handguns will soon be legal in Texas. “Texas lawmakers on Friday approved carrying handguns openly on the streets of the nation’s second most-populous state, sending the bill to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who immediately promised to sign it and reverse a ban dating to the post-Civil War era.”

The ban on carrying guns was no doubt, as in other states, a Jim Crow law intended to disarm blacks, so it’s nice to see an end to it.