Wait, Aggies can read a ballot? Or did they just randomly check boxes?
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.
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.
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.
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?
The People
on this Campus
are Unarmed
After all, they are not Texans - they're Aggies.
Texas Aggies, what did anyone suspect from them?
They think a three hole brick is a Texas bowling ball.
They played the Arkansas Razorbacks at Little Rock. In the 4th quarter someone in the crowd blew a whistle, the Razorbacks thought the game was over and left the field. Three plays later the Aggies finally scored a touchdown!
On their way back to College Station thy saw a sign that said CLEAN RESTROOMS AHEAD. They cleaned about twenty before they got home.
Then there was the little Arkansas boy staying with his uncle in Texas one summer when he threw a rock and killed a rabid dog attacking a Texas child.
A newsman, looking for a story, asked about how the boy’s father felt about it, the boy said he didn’t know where his father was.
Then he asked the boy if he loved the Aggies, the boy replied that he rooted for the Razorbacks.
Next day the Aggie papers had the headline....LITTLE BA$TARD FROM ARKANSAS KILLS BELOVED FAMILY PET!
My niece graduated from College Station...
Lots more PC-types at Aggieland these days.
Just curious, but what was it two years ago? I'd would not be surprised if this vote constitutes an improvement, especially because the article did not cite the prior results.
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. Source
A&M ain’t what it used to be. And watching Gates work for the kenyan proves it’s been going down hill for a while. Sounds like they been doin’ a little tea sippin’ in Austin. Won’t be long before the Aggies girls will also have purple hair.
When my college (Linfield College) passed the typical gun control rule I sent the below letter.
Your decision against legal concealed carry memorializes the anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings with practiced irrationality. You replicate the same comforting environment Seung-Hui Cho embraced, while asserting psychopaths must cower before a rule forbidding licensed students to carry pistols.
A rigorous, twenty-year study by John Lott and William Landes from University of Chicago Law School supports expanded concealed carry in public places. Passage of shall issue laws correlates with large decreases in multiple victim shootings, and reduced harm when shootings actually occur. Use of citizen deadly force makes startling interruptions causing assailants to abandon or improvise assaults. Police then respond to incidences in progress, instead of arriving for body counts and paperwork.
Also important were absences of shootings. Public place shootings provide perpetrators leading roles in malevolent fantasies. Previously imagined screams and explosions suddenly penetrate their beings, embellished by intimate, self-created visual stimuli of human terror, bloody mists, broken bodies, culminating in splendid, convulsive suicides at their chosen moment. The latent presence of armed citizens provides a deterrent disqualifying those places, and leading prospective murderers to abandon fantasies, or to seek a supportive “gun free” environment.
Rather than invite or allow licensed individuals, it seems more comforting for public officials and media to weave pleasing elusions around an occasional Columbine, Omaha mall or Virginia Tech, than recognize repeated cases of armed citizens thwarting violence. The Linfield campus shall become an official island of contentment for predators, during the ten-minute plus police response time.
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Let Freedom Ring,
