Texas poised to become 2nd state allowing concealed handguns on university campuses

[Bob Riebe]

http://www.startribune.com/nation/116564258.html
Things are getting back to the way they always should have been.

[Roamy]

absolutely - I would imagine a few Libyans would have loved to have our 2nd Amendment

[BDunnell]

http://www.startribune.com/nation/116564258.html
Things are getting back to the way they always should have been.

So, would you feel unsafe on a European university campus where this was not allowed?

[ArrowsFA1]

The familiar MAD doctrine: MAD assumes that each side has weaponry to destroy the other and if attacked for any reason can retaliate with equal or greater force.

[Mark]

Speaking as someone who works at a University, you can't really get a much safer place to be!

[BDunnell]

Speaking as someone who works at a University, you can't really get a much safer place to be!

My experience too. Though I'm sure certain individuals will now cleverly use Professor Google to find some links to horrific incidents at European universities that would without doubt have been prevented had everyone been armed in the name of freedom.

[ArrowsFA1]

America's endless romance with guns - http://t.co/omTYk9M

[Rollo]

Does anyone else think it's a good idea to allow a drunk 22 year old to be in possession of a handgun? Texas does.

[markabilly]

What are you worried about?? just don't go to texas but if you do, stay away from drunk 22 yo with guns....

[markabilly]

America's endless romance with guns - http://t.co/omTYk9M

Good words to live by: I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.


Odd ball article as it says guns are so seductive, with the usual underlying faulty premise that if we could just pass a few more laws these problems would go away yet gives examples of people (a marxist no less)using guns to protect themselves and the reasons this fundamental premise is so flawed:

I live in Los Angeles whose civic memory includes the 1992 Rodney King riots, when the police abandoned us to the looters. Gun sales rocketed, and the under-siege Korean American community armed itself to defend their businesses and lives. For some reason, the wild-hearted mobs stopped just short of an invisible drawbridge to my west LA district, but had they poured across La Cienega Boulevard, I'm not certain I wouldn't have emulated my Korean American neighbours.
Pragmatism sometimes overrules ethics.
Mikey Weinstein, an Air Force academy graduate and former Reagan White House lawyer, is under constant death threats – vandals routinely shoot out his windows – because he protests the pervasive Christian evangelical proselytising in the military. Whatever his private reservations, he keeps a 12-gauge shotgun in the house, and his daughter sleeps with a .357 revolver by her bed.
And I remember my late friend Jim Boggs, a scholarly radical African American autoworker in Detroit. On my last visit to his home in a tough neighbourhood, Jim insisted on walking me to a corner bus stop on the way back to my hotel. Just before leaving the house, he calmly reached behind a marble bust of Karl Marx on the mantelpiece to withdraw a fully loaded .38 Saturday Night Special. Holding the gun by his side, as we strolled down the street in broad daylight, he said, "Hey, I'm 100% for gun control. But I know this block. I'm no damn fool."

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