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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @12:15AM
I'm guessing you were going more for the joke aspect, but I don't think allowing concealed carry is going to increase the chances of homicide.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 08 2016, @01:29AM
That would be a good guess since it has never been shown to previously. The converse is in fact often the case.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @01:36AM
but I don't think allowing concealed carry is going to increase the chances of homicide./quote?
Obviously you were never obligated to flunk lazy, entitled, right-wing college students. They do not take constructive criticism well, and are prone to violent O'reillys.