The local University teaches a carry permit class every week which is quite well attended each time. Many University students and faculty take the course, but the University will not allow any firearms on campus. When I was attending there in the sixties, my roommate had a 12 gage in the dorm room and used to shoot tossed tin cans on weekends int he parking lot out front. Campus police sued to come by and give it a try with their squadcar shotgun. No one was ever shot on campus back then. Now that weapons are banned, there have been two fatal shootings in the past three years on campus. Of course, when I was riding the school bus to school in the fourth grade, my older brother was on the rifle team and carried his .22 and a box of ammo to school on shoot days. No one ever shot people at schools back then. I happen to know the principle had a pistol in his desk from when I was sent to the office and he was cleaning it on his desk and finished while I sat fidgeting until he loaded it and put it away.
You can't carry on a military base, either. It's ridiculous.
He had no problem with students keeping their guns in their vehicles tho it was technically against the rules.
BTW, I used to date a little cutie from SWTS in San Marcos. Boy that campus was chock full of babes.
Concerning the university in my home town...
It is is not a good place to be late at night, and if you take evening classes or attend campus events there, that’s when you’re walking home.
You can call campus police to escort you, but that is an even worse idea. The people who take campus security jobs are basically the lower cruft of society and I think more sexual harassment complaint have been filed against the campus police than anyone else.
So if you are an attractive young lady who just wants to get to her freaking car after class without being raped, it sure would be nice to have a gun, don’t you think?
I went to college in Maine as an 18 y.o. in 1974.
I had a Remington model 700 30-06 and a Remington Targetmaster .22 under my bed for 2-3 years. Nobody said boo.
Lots of folks had rifles because it was a hunting culture and nobody hid them.
The bongs we hid in the closet under our laundry...
I graduated from SWT in the 80’s. Man that was a fun time. We just won two Div II football titles and the women outnumbered the men 4 to 1.
Glad to see that the liberals haven’t overrun the school
18 and over with parents permission slip and parents side arm.
Pinging you Dave
The funny part is that by the time I’m 21, Obama will have been president for.... oh 7 months and I’ll still be living on campus another oh... 4 months. I have little hope that I”ll not have to go through hell after that to own a gun.
If the Constitution means anything, then it is their right. The Constitution does not make provision for age, btw. A 16 yo can be just as capable with a gun as a 21yo. Public and private schools should start to issue mandatory gun safety classes, so they know what to do with a gun at an early age.
One of the biggest mass-shootings in history was from a University of Texas bell-tower; the man was later autopsied, and found to have a huuuuge tumor in his brain.
Why weren’t more people killed?
When he started shooting, many Texas students (and faculty) swiftly responded by simply shooting back at the tower —many of them had rifles in their trunks, dorm rooms.
In many cases, the sniper’s aim was spoiled, and he had to take cover within the tower.
If they deny an individual the ability to protect themselves, I assume they are taking on that job and should be held legally and financially accountable for anyone harmed as a result.
Responsible students 21 and over? Yes, they should be able to carry.
Lots of attacks on females at the U of Oregon in the last couple of weeks. A couple of perps springing leaks would put a stop to it.