Wait, Aggies can read a ballot? Or did they just randomly check boxes?
Posted on 03/02/2011 8:50:05 AM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative
Aggies on Tuesday shot down an effort to support concealed-carry legislation, voting like they did two years ago, this time opposing it with 57 percent of more than 13,600 votes cast.
The vote was only symbolic, but it affirmed academia's generally solid opposition to pending legislation that would allow concealed-carry permit holders to carry handguns in Texas university buildings.
"There's a lot of potential for trouble if college students were allowed to have guns inside the buildings on campus," said business student Ryan Haltom, Class of 2014, moments after the result was read. He voted no.
An April 2009 referendum at Texas A&M found that 5,700 Texas A&M students -- or 54 percent of those surveyed -- opposed concealed carry on campus.
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Even at a supposedly conservative university, the current crop of students seems to have drunk too much of the anti-gun Kool-Aid that has been served to them most of their lives.
Or maybe they just don’t want guns on campus.
Wait, Aggies can read a ballot? Or did they just randomly check boxes?
Carry anyway.
Your life is worth much more than making some stupid, assh*le Bolshevik liberal feel good.
Be discreet, be armed, and stay alive.
If we are to call ourselves Free Men, we need to ACT like Free Men.
Hooray... they made the right choice because criminals ALWAYS abide by the law. A criminal will never bring a gun onto the campus if it is illegal. Criminals always follow the law..
SARC
Not surprised. I knew that Texas A&M had fallen to the Leftists when they allowed a Gay Student Center on campus.
So are they just emoting here, or is there a rational explanation for this sentiment?
I hope they haven’t shot themselves in the foot here (so to speak)
Good thing A&M is a public institution and the opinion of the students shouldn’t matter.
I don’t know.
But I do know A&M and I do know Aggies — lots of experience there.
They’re a smart and fun-loving and practical and conservative lot, and they don’t suffer fools gladly, although on a campus that large there will certainly be fools.
Many of the Ags I know are gun toters (or at least gun rights supporters) and solidly conservative.
My best guess is that they’d rather take their chances with one evil shooter than to have to duck well-meaning crossfire.
Another interpretation is that 54% want guns on campus carried only by criminals, only 46% would prefer to have guns carried by law-abiding citizens.
Well said!
Very little information given about this “survey.” From the article, it appears that it was tacked on to the end of a student government ballot. Does anyone think that this really represents the views of the student body?
Is the Aggie Hurricane Evacuation Route still I-610?
The People
on this Campus
are Unarmed
Do you think the people locked in the building at Va. Tech with Seung-Hui Cho felt the same way?
Interesting question.
The ballot was for student body elections — including those for yell leaders, in which there would have been a heavy participation from the Corps.
Military corps. Many future officers.
It would be enlightening to hear what they have to say on the subject.
After all, they are not Texans - they're Aggies.
I have no idea.
You sound like you’re trying to argue about this instead of just discuss it. I’m not interested in doing that.
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