Thursday, April 23, 2009

Move to Lift Ban on Concealed Carry on State Campuses Progresses in Texas Legislature

And it looks like it stands a pretty good chance. 

Of the 150 House members, 70 have signed on in support of Driver’s bill. In the Senate, 12 of 31 senators signed on in support of Wentworth’s bill.

Governor Perry has already said that he will sign it if it makes it to his desk.

(9) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1727 hrs
Firearms + Law + Politics + Politics - Texas

  1. OH to have a governor that actually has a pair.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 23, 2009 at 1955 hrs


  2. Pair of what? Breasts?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 23, 2009 at 2003 hrs


  3. This just in—Charles Whitman welcomed back to UT-Austin campus.  Rception to be held on the top floor of the tower!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 23, 2009 at 2101 hrs


  4. This just in—Charles Whitman killed by legally armed student who saved countless lives.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 23, 2009 at 2106 hrs


  5. Pair of what?

      You had to ask?  Sorry you can’t identify with this statement.  Most men can…

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 23, 2009 at 2109 hrs


  6. According to my count, Charles Whitman killed or wounded at least 9 of his victims while the police were on the scene.  I don’t know that a legally armed student would have done any better.

    And the police had help too,

    Citizens went home and got their own guns, and hundreds of shots chipped away at the Tower in the next hour

    http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/mass/whitman/tower_6.html

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 23, 2009 at 2144 hrs


  7. Whitman is one man who with today technology and advanced sniper/SWAT training wouldn’t have lasted long on that tower. There were people who encountered Whitman who could have stopped him if they had weapons. (Gabours and Lamports families?)

    Anyway, this makes me want to move to Texas where it seems they have some common sense.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 24, 2009 at 0810 hrs


  8. I am going to turn a liberal argument against them now. No one can say what would have happened if all those folks had not had their own weapons and were chipping away thereby keeping good old whitman’s head down. You can’t prove a negative and so you can’t say that more people would not have died had all those other folks been around to help the police keep the coward’s head down.

    Posted by fishaddict on April 24, 2009 at 0927 hrs


  9. While I support concealed carry on campus, speculating how it would have helped in the Whitman case.  Keep in mind that Whitman was on top of a tower killing people from as far away as 500 yards.  There are very few pistols suitable for concealed carry that would have much of a chance of coming close to returning fire from that range.  The only way it would have helped is if someone got close to him before he sealed himself away on the tower. 

    Interesting that we’re discussing an example of a campus shooting from 1966.  What about ones as recently as last year at Virginia Tech?  In that kind of circumstance where the shooter is wandering the halls and classrooms, a student armed with a pistol would have stood a far better chance of saving lives.

    Posted by Owen on April 24, 2009 at 0950 hrs


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