Texas Takes One Step Closer To Allowing Students To Carry Concealed Guns On Campus
Campus carry has been widely debated across the nation. Should students with their CHL be allowed to carry their concealed handgun on campus? Currently, in Texas, a CHL holder is allowed to carry a concealed handgun only in public places, such as the quad. The Texas government is looking to change that to allow students to carry them in campus buildings and dorms.
Senate Bill 11 was put to a vote in the House last night right before a midnight deadline. The results were heavily favored in the “yes” end of the spectrum.
From Houston Chronicle:
With a midnight deadline to pass Senate bills looming, the House approved the legislation by a vote of 101-47. The vote was triggered when lawmakers, who had filed more than 100 amendments to the bill, agreed to pull them down after the bill was amended to a point amenable to both Democrats and Republicans.
The bill would require both private and public institutions to implement the law. It also allows each campus to determine exactly where concealed handguns would be allowed on campus. The bill will go through House approval one more time before being sent to the Senate.
What do you think? Should students with CHLs be allowed to carry concealed handguns on campus?.
[via Houston Chronicle]
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I’ll fight for my 2nd Amendment right any day, but the risk just doesn’t seem to outweigh the reward here. Even if a gun is being used in self defense, just because you have a CHL doesn’t mean you’re prepared to shoot a moving target in the heat of things. More people are likely to get hurt.
10 years ago at 8:30 pmCrazy to think the highest state in the nation, Colorado, has had campus carry for years now without a single incident. Florida’s CC bill died on calendar after gaining a lot of momentum. Damn shame. Liberals will continue to paint guns as living; breathing destruction machines that’ll break into your home, rape your girlfriend and kill your dog.
10 years ago at 12:32 amMost recent mass shootings have taken place in areas where concealed carries are prohibited. I can carry in the jersey mikes 20 feet from campus but not across the street in the lecture hall where the SOC department is teaching students to hate their country. But hell, I’m way more liable to accidentally shoot someone on campus than in the jersey mikes across the street according to half the stupid asses that have commented on here.
10 years ago at 1:01 ammerica!
10 years ago at 2:23 amThanks for stealing my image
10 years ago at 8:31 amIt’s surprising (and yet not) how often you see the Declaration of Independence being used in pictures when referring to the Constitution.
10 years ago at 3:48 pmJust pointing out this also allows professors to get trained and carry, which was actually the intent and thinking behind the bill.
10 years ago at 6:39 pm