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TX: Legislators should not allow guns on campuses
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Bruce W. Krafft
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"On Aug. 1, 1966, former marine Charles Whitman armed himself with seven guns and more than 700 rounds of ammunition and went on a shooting spree, murdering 16 people in 90 minutes. The Texas legislature decided this month that in August 2016, exactly 50 years after the incident, college students all over the Lone Star State will be permitted to similarly arm themselves while on campus. The state has seemingly adopted the idea that, according to State Representative Jonathan Stickland, 'an armed society is a safe society.'"
Yet despite this win for “Second Amendment rights,” pro-gun lobbying groups such as Students for Concealed Carry are still referring to these new laws as only a first step ..." ... |
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jac
(6/17/2015)
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Exactly what does the murder spree at UT fifty years ago have to do with the present situation? The carry on campus laws do not make it legal to kill anyone except in defense of one's life or others.
Students that go to the trouble to acquire a concealed carry license are the most responsible citizens on campus. These predictions of wild west shoot outs haven't occurred anywhere else and they won't occur in Texas.
The panty wetters should be glad that someone might save their life in the event of a mass shooting such as happened in Virginia. |
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