College Students Seek to Use Concealed-Carry Permits

Townhall.com ^ | January 1, 2009 | William Perry Pendley

[television is just wrong]

I agree with conceal and carry. It will make a very pollite society very quickly.

[Shadowstrike]

My Dad always told me “I’d rather come bail you out of jail, than identify you at the morgue.” I carried a concealed handgun way before my State had a conceal law.

[OL Hickory]

oldie but a goodie....

“I would rather be judged by 12..
than carried out by 6”

[fella]

Also ....... Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.

[TYVets]

Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.

So true of guns and fire extinguishers.

[Kent C]

The 2nd Amendment is my ‘concealed carry permit’.

[raybbr]

My Dad always told me “I’d rather come bail you out of jail, than identify you at the morgue.” I carried a concealed handgun way before my State had a conceal law.

The laws have gotten far stricter and more potent about unlicensed weapons. I, for one, would probably be thrown in jail for years if I was caught with and unlicensed weapon. Just ask Compean and Ramos.

[PalmettoMason]

Dr. Hupp, a chiropractor, had indeed brought her gun to Luby’s that day; however, it was illegal then to carry a concealed weapon in Texas.

I don't know if Luby's served beer or wine (I kind of doubt it), but even though we have a concealed carry law here in SC, we are prohibited from carrying into any place that has a license to serve alcoholic beverages on premises.

That means that if we choose to eat out at anyplace other than a burger joint, we become fish in a barrel.

It seems to me that if the state recognizes an individual's right, and his need to have the means available to defend himself, then they assume total responsibility in places where they restrict him from having those means.

I'm waiting to see a test case where someone gets assaulted in a Pizza Hut, and sues not the restaurant, but the State of South Carolina. I'm sure they would never win, but it would be interesting to see how the state argues the case.

[Quickgun]

Here in Texas, restaurents that do not get at least 51% of thier revenue from alcohol can be carried in. So most places that are primarily an eating establishment can be carried in. A tavern that serves snacks and burgers,etc. cannot. I think that is fair for the most part.

[ExSoldier]

Just ask Compean and Ramos.

Those two HEROES just had the misfortune to serve under a President more dedicated to creating the New World Order of his father's dreams than he was to upholding the spirit of the US Constitution. This would never have happened under Reagan. A disheartening example showing the outcome when a commander in chief is more concerned with being an ally than with being an American.

[ExSoldier]

When I was a senior at the University of Alabama (Gator's -- next year we'll be making luggage of you) in 1979, I carried on campus all the time. I had an Alabama ccw that I was issued by the local sheriff after he walked around me a few times in my ROTC fatigues. I paid the $5 and he declared: "Don't shoot nobody what don't got it comin'!!" That was that. Had VA Tech broken out when I was at BAMA, there wouldn't have been time to call the cops before any of the ROTCs and a good number of Fraternity boys would be whistling up a meat wagon and declaring Clean up on Aisle five! My, how far we have fallen. ~sigh~ So sad.

[ExSoldier]

So most places that are primarily an eating establishment can be carried in. A tavern that serves snacks and burgers,etc. cannot. I think that is fair for the most part.

That's the exact situation here in Florida. I don't drink on a regular basis -- last night was my first and last probably for the next five months or so until I'm 52. So when we go out to TGI Fridays and sit in the restaurant I'm legal. Had I been out last night instead of home watching crazy New Yorkers freeze their buns off on my tv waiting for that ball to drop (while it was nice and warm here in Miami) I'd definitely NOT have been carrying.

That's one of several ironclad rules I live by:

#1NEVER mix alcohol and gunpowder!

[Lockbox]

I agree with conceal and carry. It will make a very pollite society very quickly.

I like the concept that anyone can shoot anyone else for anything. Sure we will lose 5% right off the top, but after that everyone will be very polite to one another as they understand that although you can shoot anyone, the rule also applies against you.

[Copernicus]

I think that is fair for the most part.

Why do you think that is fair?

Just because you are in an establishment that serves alcohol does not mean YOU, the carrier, must drink.

Ever watch cops or bouncers break up a really mean brawl between drunks? They have all manner of weapons-tasers,guns,pepper spray etc. and yet use them proportionately.

These alcohol/gungrabber laws are nothing more than "guilty until proven innocent". There is alcohol, ipso,ergo, and therefore guns are bad, bad, bad, unless you are military or police.

Deeply flawed logic all the way around.

Best regards,

[Copernicus]

Oddly enough, at least one University Chancellor carries concealed and if he lives (and works) on State Property, may be in violation of the law.

Link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2156730/posts

Best regards,

[FreedomPoster]

I love asking the question “Do you own a fire extinguisher?” in response to the question “Why do you need / have a gun?”

[Condor51]

Gun Free College University 'Campuses' are a joke. For one, a majority, maybe all (don't know for sure) are "Open" and you can't tell where "a Campus" begins or ends.

I know for sure that the Univ of Chicago, the Univ of IL at Chicago, Northwestern Univ, and IL State Univ (ISU) are all open. And unless you are in 'The Quad', you may as well be in Timbuktu. I took special note of this last spring when our youngest daughter graduated from ISU (B.S.Ed) and we went on a road trip through 'the campus' the night before.

One one street there'd be a Dorm (campus), across that street would be a Private Residence. And the "Campus Parking Lots" were spread all over the dang place - 'campus', not 'campus'?). Even the Gym Complex that held the ceremony was across the street from Private Residences, with some Frat Houses mixed in. (Campus?)

So. How can you have a "Gun Free Campus" when for all intents and purposes - there is NO "Campus"? And I'm sure those fine folks down in Normal, IL had a shotgun, a rifle or two, and some handguns in those Private Residences: 'on campus'. /s

[television is just wrong]

exactly.

[supercat]

I love asking the question “Do you own a fire extinguisher?” in response to the question “Why do you need / have a gun?”

Why should anyone other than a trained medical professional have a first-aid kit?

First-aid kits don't replace doctors, any more than personal defensive firearms replace police. A first-aid kit is designed to keep an accident victim alive until medical professionals can render aid; a personal-defense firearm does likewise for a crime victim.