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TX: Community fills up Lone Star College for campus carry forum
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As state legislators move closer to expanding gun rights at public colleges and universities, Lone Star College System officials conducted two public forums to educate the community on the proposed laws and gather feedback.
A March 31 forum at LSC-CyFair featured an overview of the two bills—House Bill 937 and Senate Bill 11—and a discussion of the pros and cons if they were to pass. The event was open to students, faculty and community members and drew hundreds of attendees. |
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teebonicus
(4/2/2015)
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In the seven states that allow campus carry, none of the dire prognostications advanced by opponents have materialized. None.
No sexual assaults, no rapes, no robberies, no muggings, no drunken frat party shootouts, no threats or shootings of professors by disgruntled students, NOTHING.
Conversely, in all the rest of the states (i.e. that prohibit campus carry), all of those things have happened and are happening on or around campuses.
Instead of allowing irrational fears to influence this decision, rely instead on the facts and the evidence.
The evidence is that there are no deleterious effects of a campus carry policy in the states that allow it, and the usual crimes that stoke people's fears happen where campus carry is prohibited.
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