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Concealed handgun license holders in Texas can carry their weapons into public university buildings, classrooms and dorms starting Monday, a day that also marks 50 years after the mass shooting at the University of Texas' landmark clock tower.
The campus-carry law pushed by Gov. Greg Abbott and the Republican legislative majority makes Texas one of a handful of states guaranteeing the right to carry concealed handguns on campus.
Texas has allowed concealed handguns in public for 20 years. Gun rights advocates consider it an important protection, given the constitutional right to bear arms, as well as a key self-defense measure in cases of campus violence, such as the 1966 UT shootings and the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech.
Opponents of the law fear it will chill free speech on campus and lead to more campus suicide. The former dean of the University of Texas School of Architecture left for a position at the University of Pennsylvania because of his opposition to allowing guns on campus.
Officials told the Austin American-Statesman it was a coincidence that the law took effect 50 years to the day after the UT shooting. Marine-trained sniper Charles Whitman climbed to the observation deck of the 27-story clock tower in the heart of UT's flagship Austin campus, armed with rifles, pistols and a sawed-off shotgun on Aug. 1, 1966, killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others before officers gunned him down.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Sunday August 07 2016, @11:42PM
I'm tihnking... green organic decomposing one-use bullet proof fashion wear in vending machines all over campus. Also, vending machines with gun accessories, i.e. silencers, kydex holsters, pink lanyards for the girls, etc. Think of the profit! You heard it first here on SN!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @12:34AM
Bullet vending machines in case you need to reload.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @01:13AM
reloading machines :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @02:52AM
Here in Texas, you can buy a gun at a drive-thru liquor store.