Texas bills would allow guns @ colleges

[Bigum1969]

Here's an article from MSNBC. Of course, the guy whose photo is in the article is against the bill. It would be great if just one state could get a law like this passed. We need somewhere to start.

Texas bills would allow guns at college - Education- msnbc.com

 

[dvcr8tor]

Wow, guys quote at the end: "you either play dead or you are dead". Only if you have no other means of protecting yourself...

 

[Bill of Rights]

...It would be great if just one state could get a law like this passed. We need somewhere to start.

Utah has such a law, for about the last ten years, if memory serves.

No incidents.

What? You've never heard about that? Huh. Wonder why not? </sarcasm>

Media bias. Gotta love it. If it bleeds it leads, but if it doesn't bleed, it gets buried in about page 4 of section D.

If my facts above are in error, I would welcome the correction.

Blessings,
Bill

 

[Bill of Rights]

Also interesting that they mention the 1966 shooting at UT-Austin. What curiously is not mentioned is the fact that some faculty members who had rifles in their offices shot back at the gunman, keeping him pinned down and lowering the death toll.

Curiouser and curiouser.

Blessings,
Bill

 

[Bigum1969]

Great points BOR.

You are correct about Utah. And I didn't know about faculty firing back with rifles in the 1966 shooting. Now, if I were writing a story about these proposed bills in Texas, I'm sure I would've done some research. But it doesn't happen in the mainstream media unless it fits their agenda.

 

[minuteman32]

Utah has such a law, for about the last ten years, if memory serves.

No incidents.

What? You've never heard about that? Huh. Wonder why not? </sarcasm>

Media bias. Gotta love it. If it bleeds it leads, but if it doesn't bleed, it gets buried in about page 4 of section D.

If my facts above are in error, I would welcome the correction.

Blessings,
Bill

This is correct. In UT, one may carry on college (even pre-K through 12 schools) with a license to carry. UT is so strongly pro carry that a couple of years ago, the states AG told the two largest school systems that they needed to revise their "no weapons" policy. The schools (state schools, that is) cannot prohibit an individual w/ a LTC from carrying on their property nor in their buildings. And, the only shooting that I recall in UT was in the Trolly Square mall, which had a "no weapons" policy!

 

[Bill of Rights]

This is correct. In UT, one may carry on college (even pre-K through 12 schools) with a license to carry. UT is so strongly pro carry that a couple of years ago, the states AG told the two largest school systems that they needed to revise their "no weapons" policy. The schools (state schools, that is) cannot prohibit an individual w/ a LTC from carrying on their property nor in their buildings. And, the only shooting that I recall in UT was in the Trolly Square mall, which had a "no weapons" policy!

Thanks, Dan! I wrote "no incidents" in reference to school shootings specifically, but I'd completely forgotten that Trolley Square was in SLC.

Reps earned and enroute!

Blessings,
Bill

 

[Armed & Christian]

The Bible college I attended had a policy against "unauthorized firearms and other weapons." When I approached the Faculty Senate to request a definition for "unauthorized," and presented a case to allow carry on campus, the result was that a number of students and staff were given the go-ahead.

Unfortunately, some of the students and staff equate Christianity with being a doormat, and they got pretty bent about the revision. As a result, the revised policy is not openly proclaimed, but there are quite a few there who carry concealed.

 

[bigg cheese]

what was the name of the college? I have friends and relatives who have attended several in-state and in CA

 

[Dr Falken]

Thanks for the post. I'm vacationaing in Texas this summer, and was planning to carry on the journey, until I was advised that we would be at a "gun free"campus. Perhaps the law will change by then. I was going to see if they had a place I could secure my gun for the duration of the visit.

 

[jeremy]

Uhhh... I am working on memory that is over a decade old here. But when I lived in Texas in the 90's the had a traveling law for firearms carry. I can't quite remember how it worked, other than that we at hood used it as the reason we carried at UT/Austin. I'll see if I can find a little more on it.