Storify: Campus Carry Bills Debated in House
Four bills that would ease restrictions on the carrying of concealed weapons on college and university campuses were debated Thursday in the House Committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety.
The bills — House Bill 972 by Rep. Allen Fletcher, R-Cypress; House Bill 1313 by Rep. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe; House Bill 1078 by Rep. Tim Kleinschmidt, R-Lexington; and House Bill 706 by Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, R-Southlake — were all heard by the committee at once and inspired hours of public testimony. For many lawmakers and witnesses involved in the proceedings, the excercise may have seemed very similar to hearings from previous sessions ...
Comments (7)
Roberta Dillania de Geldofinez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
When I was in student government at Texas State I felt bullied into supporting campus carry. I personally thought we had bigger issues and didn't care one way or another.
Carolyn Moon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It should be Horrify, not Storify
Matthew Cowan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
No horror about adults with CHL's. That is what is being discussed. Adults who are 21. The predictions of our streets becoming the wild west and blood flowing in them from gunfights never happened.
Matthew J Christensen via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Utah already allows open carry on campuses and guess what....nothing bad yet.
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Yet is the keyword. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/55680230-90/bill-carry-concealed-gun.html.csp
mike murray
Gun control laws and restrictions do not prevent those who intend to do harm from doing harm, they only create soft targets for miscreants, deviants, and other vermin to attack.
By definition, criminals ignore or intentionally violate laws. Laws only provide reasons for prosecution after the fact.
The young man who walked onto the UT campus in the Fall of 2011 walked onto an entirely unsecured and soft target-rich environment. The UT security operation was totally incapable of (and they are not intended, trained, or tasked with) preventing the entry onto campus of armed individuals. They, as well as those who become victims, will be surprised greatly when (not if) another mass shooting takes place on the UT campus. Further, there will be nothing they can do to stop it unless they are extremely lucky.
If the presence of guns created danger, then mass killings would take place at gun shows, gun ranges, gun stores or my home...they don't. Mass killings using firearms take place where deranged individuals (or terrorists) know they'll get the most bang (pun intended) for their buck prior to intervention. These soft targets abound and the results are "horrifying" churches, schools, sporting events...take your pick. Next time you're in church...or drop a kid off at school...or attend a sporting event think about how vulnerable you are to people who ignore the laws that put you at risk.
I'm continually amaged at how, seemingly, educated people believe that gun control laws make one safer from people who abide by laws (there are laws against robbery, assault, murder, etc.) already on the books and believe that these law-abiding citizens become a threat to violate these laws by carrying a firearm. The only two answers are that these people aren't as smart as an education would make one believe they are...or they have another agenda and hide behind the euphamism "gun violence".
P.S. Ever notice how, when a politician creates a name for something (like the affordable care act) it is to fool the morons and deluded among us to support it...and the rest of us get it stuck in our ear.
Matthew Cowan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
KAren, did not read the article she posted. " Utah is one of two states — Kansas being the other — where concealed weapons permit holders can lawfully carry on school campuses. The Mathis proposal wouldn’t change that — you’d still have to have a concealed-carry permit to be in possession of a firearm on a school campus."