Posted on 02/20/2011 3:56:56 PM PST by Eleutheria5
AUSTIN, Texas -Texas is preparing to give college students and professors the right to carry guns on campus, adding momentum to a national campaign to open this part of society to firearms.
More than half the members of the Texas House have signed on as co-authors of a measure directing universities to allow concealed handguns. The Senate passed a similar bill in 2009 and is expected to do so again. Republican Gov. Rick Perry, who sometimes packs a pistol when he jogs, has said he's in favor of the idea.
Texas has become a prime battleground for the issue because of its gun culture and its size, with 38 public universities and more than 500,000 students. It would become the second state, following Utah, to pass such a broad-based law. Colorado gives colleges the option and several have allowed handguns.
Supporters of the legislation argue that gun violence on campuses, such as the mass shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007 and Northern Illinois in 2008, show that the best defense against a gunman is students who can shoot back.
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Thank God. Hope it passes.
“Texas, leading the nation” to BBQ..
>> Hope it passes.
Me too.
This bill will be quite popular in Lubbock and College Station, I predict.
At my alma mater in Austin, probably not so much. :-(
We still have a lot of work to do.
If this is a Texas boy, someone needs to do some talkin' to him. If he's an out-of-stater, then just send him home.
“Texas, leading the nation” to BBQ..
Texas, leading the nation in rolling blackouts
I suggest u pass a bill to build more power plants.
Such a small thing that you would think would require no thinking, no limited legislation, but here we are arguing the consequences of allowing the 2nd amendment to operate as specified.
This is a small problem with our Legislatures, but it represents a much larger problem. Just who has control here..is it the government or the people? One of these days, we may find out the answer...
No, AP. Governments don't "give... rights". The state cannot accord fundamental rights; they did not create me. Rights are accorded by the Creator.
The right to keep and bear arms is fundamental and pre-dates both the US and Texas Republics.
All Texas is doing with this bill is removing an institutionalized infringement of rights, which operated under color of law.
I wish they'd get it right. See my tagline.
Get ready for some heads to explode at a certain large campus in Austin - and I’m not talking about weapons fire.
Remember how they all went ape because somebody took a weapon on campus last year and then shot himself in the library?
Even A&M went to lockdown alert because somebody was seen *with a gun* on campus ((shudder)).
Ironic that UT is so strongly opposed, given their past.
On the 40th anniversary of the UT Tower shootings, a handful of accounts from witnesses, victims and officials referenced the many students and citizens who came to the campus with their rifles and took shots at sniper Charles Whitman. Only a few got close, but at least one LEO and an EMT who were there credited the spontaneous armed response with distracting Whitman from targeting more unarmed people before police were able to kill him.
Another witness recalled the scene as Whitman’s body was brought out of the tower hours later, before a large crowd that included dozens of men and boys with guns still shouldered.
>> before a large crowd that included dozens of men and boys with guns still shouldered
Back in the good ol’ days.
“Remember how they all went ape because somebody took a weapon on campus last year and then shot himself in the library?”
Didn’t he know he was violating campus rules? Now he can shoot himself in the library with impunity, instead of doing it at home in his bathroom, as all decent suicidal students should.
>> I suggest u pass a bill to build more power plants.
We prolly could... if we sent all our Sierra Club enviro-pukes somewhere else. I’m thinkin’ Knoxville. :-)
Texas is not the problem,
The feds are trying to limit our ability to built plants.
Those rolling blackouts were an anomaly as the result of a freak snow storm.
It hasnt happened in the 19 years I have been here and it didnt hit me. We have our own plant in my town.
Just vote em out like we did in Tennessee!
I think fewer more profound words have ever been spoke. If this passes I'll carry into class. I've always been bugged by not being able to. The local community colleges have never had an incident where a student might need firepower, but as I said: I'll pack into class. You never know and gun-free zones are just killing fields when the smelly byproduct hits the air movement device.
“I carry a gun because I can not carry a Cop”
That is just a wonderful saying.. Might have to adopt it with your permission...heh.
The problem wasn't the generating capacity, it was the lack of winterization. The peak demand in February was lower than the peaks in the previous summers. There were coal fired plants with frozen water intake pipes that had to be shut down. There were natural gas powered generating plants that were shut down due to low pipeline pressure caused by compressors not having any electrical power. Wind turbines only generated 5% of their rated capacity.
Of course, maybe things are different in Texas. Here in ASSachusetts, you can't trust most college students with a plastic spoon.
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