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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 Azuma Hazuki on Monday August 08 2016, @09:20PM
You're not paying attention to a single goddamn thing I said, are you?
Number one, you WERE a soldier. You are not now. I don't give a fuck that you're a veteran, you are still a civilian. If you think you're still on the battlefield, go back to where you fought (the Middle East during the Gulf War?) and make it so. Sounds like you never adjusted to civilian life...you wouldn't be the first and you're definitely not gonna be the last.
Number two: While you may be more sober and possibly calmer, having seen your post history I cannot truly call you wiser. Something in your development has stalled out, and I suspect it stalled before you even went out to fight that pointless war. You reek of the early-teenage "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" syndrome that so many Randroids suffer from, and unfortunately age has treated you less like wine and more like a felled log.
Number three: I'm not afraid of you. Not the way you hope, anyway. Mostly I pity you; it may be too late for you to learn anything now, and you're a low-level memetic hazard as you are :(
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday August 09 2016, @12:30AM
Keep telling yourself that. Eventually it may help with your phobia. You'll be able to tell it's working when you no longer feel the need to have anti-gun laws enforced by men with guns.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday August 09 2016, @03:05AM
...you're completely missing the point here, as usual, Uzzard. SOME people with guns scare me; YOU do not, at least not because you're armed. This is about you, and you alone; don't try to use other gun owners as meat shields, if even metaphorically.
And you might try responding to all of your opponents' message rather than cherry picking one tiny part of it. Of course this would require integrity, honesty, self-awareness, and a conscience, so perhaps I ask too much...as you were then.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday August 09 2016, @10:30AM
I only respond to the parts that are worth responding to. Or, failing that and as in your case, mildly amuse me to respond to.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday August 09 2016, @03:58PM
Jesus, you actually think anyone with an IQ above room temperature is going to fall for that? Anyone watching your post history--and mine with yours--can tell what's going on here. You're not even a competent troll. Go back to the Middle East and kill and/or die, will you? It's clear you haven't readjusted to civilian life and probably never will...and that you peaked in 8th grade.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @04:58PM
You sound angry and bitter. If you get this upset over something on the internet, I can't imagine how you react to things that upset you in the real world. I'd be more worried about you in the real world than buzzard.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday August 09 2016, @05:38PM
Odd thing, that...in meatspace I'm usually very calm. Worst that happens is I get bitingly sarcastic. Somehow it all comes out on here.
Also this shouldn't need repeating but:
1) Being angry does not in and of itself make someone wrong
2) If you're NOT angry at the state of the world you're either fucking retarded or actively benefiting from the state of things, and
3) Tone-trolling is for idiots with no actual arguments
tl;dr: Crai sum moar, your tears are delicious and salty. Probably big and buttery too.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday August 09 2016, @08:08PM
Fall for what? Me telling you that most of your words aren't worth the bytes used to store them? Hell, everyone already knows this except you.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday August 09 2016, @09:16PM
You're not even on the same goddamn planet as the rest of us, are you? What a waste of time...I can see you really want to go to hell, so I won't stand in your way. Have fun, Uzzard.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 10 2016, @01:30AM
I always do.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday August 10 2016, @03:04AM
Yeah, I know your type...it's all fun and games right up until it isn't. I've seen dozens of people like you crash and burn, and every single one deserved it. Don't worry; I can play the long game :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 10 2016, @10:17AM
You? You can't even play the short game. I may come off looking like a troll but you come off looking like a screeching harpy. Guess which of those people would rather read posts from.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday August 10 2016, @04:51PM
Keep going, Uzzard. Every single thing you say damns you more thoroughly than anything I could ever possibly do. The Streisand Effect is real, and you're dug so deep in it you'll get burned if you touch the sides of that hole.
Understand something: so long as people like you exist and continue to pollute the noosphere with your self-serving, fractally-wrong idiocy,
I
Will
Never
Stop
Ever
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 10 2016, @06:32PM
Nice. You don't even know what the Streisand Effect [wikipedia.org] is. That's some quality humor, that is.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday August 10 2016, @08:37PM
Moron. You're trying to keep things between us here, and I'm calling you out and encouraging others to look at your posts, through other channels too. Herd immunity; the more people see your idiocy and my responses to it, the fewer people you can infect.
Keep digging, dipshit. You're doing most of my work for me.
Remember: There. Is. No. Escape. The only way you can save yourself is to stop being an idiot, and I know your kind; you'd die first, because MUH FREEZE PEACH. All well and good, but free speech doesn't guarantee you the right not to be ridiculed.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 11 2016, @02:02AM
You're so cute when you're mad. It's fun watching you flail around just flinging shit randomly. Are you really under the impression that any of it will stick? I mean, come on, this level of lameassedness wouldn't even work on Twitter and we have a much more discerning community here. If you want to insult me, do it well or all you'll accomplish is making yourself look like an idiot.
P.S. Did you click the link and inform yourself as to what the Streisand Effect actually is or do you remain ignorant?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 11 2016, @04:43AM
Here's a little hint (and it's something Mr. Drumpf would do well to learn, too): saying something won't make it true. At this point people have seen enough of you to make their own judgments; most of them, for reasons I cannot comprehend, don't call you on your bullshit. Maybe it's because you're staff, maybe they can't be arsed, I have no bloody idea.
Whatever the case, your past actions and words speak for themselves, and they damn you far more thoroughly than anything I could ever say or do. I, personally, would do well to attack less and spotlight more, as you've done the majority of my work for me just by being who and what you are.
Remember: no escape. Hell welcomes you with open arms...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 11 2016, @09:46AM
See, you're even politicianing it now. Not even responding to what was said. It's hilarious to see you foam at the mouth.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 11 2016, @07:16PM
Keep flapping your gums, Uzzard. Maybe it's the propranolol speaking here, but I'm actually rather calm about all this. After all, you already did most of my work for me...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 11 2016, @09:34PM
Did I? You mean to tell me you were trying to look like a fool?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 11 2016, @09:44PM
That's it, let the hate flow through you...you've forgotten the First Rule of Holes. Keep digging and you'll end up in Hell where you belong.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 12 2016, @01:41AM
Hate? Sweety, you don't even rate minor annoyance. You in fact mildly amuse me with your pathetic attempts at manipulating opinion. Instead of changing anyone's opinion on an issue you've ended up doing the only thing you can do, ad-hom shit flinging with someone who's been egging you on for his own amusement. You are my toy.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 12 2016, @05:45AM
At this point I'm not even reading your posts, just responding with "keep yakking, shitheel." You really do not seem to understand the situation here...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 12 2016, @10:36AM
Right, well if you're not reading I'll not bother with crafting witty insults; I'll just tell you about my week. The sales manager for my buddy's company had a bass boat that'd been sitting in his yard for about twenty years that he wanted rid of and it turns out my buddy was short exactly one bass boat. So, now we have this 17' boat with twenty years of fallen leaves and water needing cleaned out. In the middle of August. The work's coming along nicely, even if it is fucking hot as hell, and it's about a day from looking almost new. Soon it'll be time to get a couple batteries for it and find out what work the 115 horse Evinrude on the back needs. Well besides almost certainly needing a water pump. The rubber bits in those dry rot in like a year if you don't use the engine. After that, it's just tag the boat and motor and put it on the lake.
My garden's coming along nicely as well. I finally figured out the right amount of water to give the peppers so they'll be at least a little hot. Water them every day here and they end up as mild as bell peppers. That's greatly disappointing if you're growing jalapenos and chilis, so I've been decreasing the water they get until they've started slowly losing leaves and the peppers are starting to get at least warm enough to notice.
In upcoming news, I'm probably going to go see Suicide Squad this weekend. And also get a good bottle of scotch. I expect to enjoy the scotch more than the movie. Either should be more interesting than your posts though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 12 2016, @04:39PM
I didn't read any of that, sorry. I did see the word "jalapeno" on the way down and those are delicious, but...so what? Keep those fingers dancin' Uzzard...the damage is already done.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday August 13 2016, @01:50AM
Damage? Everyone already knows exactly what I'm like. And now they know exactly what you're like too.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday August 13 2016, @05:20AM
I never had anything to hide, Uzzard. You, by contrast, merely *thought* you didn't. I can keep this up as long as you can, and probably longer.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday August 13 2016, @10:30AM
No, you should simply have lurked because you rarely know your ass from a hole in the ground in any given conversation.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday August 14 2016, @03:38AM
So, I have a hypothesis: projection, as evidenced by people like you, is a result of something akin to the force of gravity at the event horizon at a black hole. Basically, you've got your head so far up your own ass you've become a walking Klein bottle, and can't seem to see that you're accusing others of precisely your own sins. It must be Hell, trapped in an almost-solipsistic void of a mind like that...Sartre may have been wrong.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @05:37AM
So, you don't know me.
I don't know you.
But I stumbled across this thread, and honestly? Azuma Hazuki? You are clearly an asshat of the first water. I mean, just wow. And not even the gun thing, you ...
You're like a monument to dickheadedness. It would be beautiful, except for the whole dickhead thing. Now granted, Buzzard could stand to drink less. Or maybe more. Whichever. But you're special.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday August 14 2016, @06:50AM
Oh, hi. You'd do well to read our post histories on here rather than judge from one thread, if you're actually curious. And not, now I think of it, some kind of sock puppet. Up to you of course; I could probably care less about what you think, but not much. Have a nice day :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday August 14 2016, @01:04PM
Told you so.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @05:56PM
Ok, I did as you suggested.
Buzzard sounds like most veterans: crusty, cranky, with limited tolerance for mealy-mouthed bullshit. Not always congenial, but you know where you stand with him, and what his priorities are. I can handle that.
I checked your post history, and you come across as a one-note nut. Except for this thread; in this thread you look like the crazy just came bubbling to the surface and the condom broke.
If anyone in this thread needs therapy, it's you, not Buzzard.
I certainly know which one I'd rather have a beer with, share a massive plate of ribs with, and maybe go fishing with, and it surely isn't you.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday August 14 2016, @10:45PM
What in Cthulu's unholy name makes you think I care? I don't drink beer, prefer vegetarian food or chicken, and think fishing is useless and cruel unless you're going to eat what you catch. We're just different personalities; I wouldn't want to spend time with you even if we were neutrally-disposed toward one another. Not to mention all of those things tend to be male-only bonding activities anyway; wouldn't wanna get in the way of your precious sausage-party social rituals, ye gods, no.
Besides which, if the only thing you took away from Uzzard's post history is "oh, he sounds like most veterans, he's just cranky," you're either willfully blind or precisely the same kind of evil he is. I've learned this is something people either understand or don't. You don't seem to, and I won't waste my virtual breath trying to make you. Someone you disagree with is not automatically wrong or crazy.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @05:27AM
I don't know that you care. Just trying to point out to you that from an outside perspective, you look crazy (even if you aren't) and Buzzard doesn't (even if he is).
Perhaps you need to work on your communication style? And the point above, since you missed it, had nothing to do with beer, ribs or fishing, nearly so much as congenial companionship rather than being harangued by a one-note scold. Nothing about Buzzard strikes me as evil as opposed to cranky. You, on the other hand, sound genuinely disturbed - and that's the charitable interpretation, because the alternative is that you're lucidly spouting this nonsense. Seriously. Take a chill pill, drink your beverage of choice with the meal of your choice, and perhaps meditate a while. Stop assuming that Buzzard is evil, as opposed to just not in agreement with you. As you yourself point out: "Someone you disagree with is not automatically wrong or crazy."
Let that universal love flow through you.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday August 15 2016, @04:32PM
It doesn't actually sound like you've gone through his entire post history, then. Understand that we are dealing with someone whose entire political philosophy begins and ends with "Taxation is theft," basically a walking embodiment of the Gadsden Flag, with little or no willingness to analyze beyond the dogmatic bedrock of his positions.
This is the same kind of mind we have millions and millions of here in the 'States, which I liken to a pine barrens forest that hasn't had a burn in a long time. It's a tinderbox of egoism, shortsightedness, resentment, and aggrieved ignorance, just waiting for the right spark...which, in recent history, has been Drumpfasaurus Rex, banging on the same old populist drum Mussolini and Hitler used.
I wouldn't mind if it were just him in isolation; problem is, especially in the modern internet-connected world, he's basically a memetic plague-carrier. Bad ideas are very much like viral contagions, in that they spread quickly and grip their victims hard. The fact that they tend to die rather quickly too due to their virulence does not help, because by the time an epidemic of, say, race-hate or fascism dies out, it could destroy nations. THAT is why I'm both so persistent and so permanently all-guns-blazing when confronting people like him; I'm tired of people pissing in the meme pool, and the results of the same.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @05:24PM
In other words:
You disagree with him. And you really, really, REALLY dislike what he thinks. And you believe that him believing that Bad Stuff (tm) will lead to a situation you dislike.
And you think that there are millions of people who disagree with you in the same way, and that that is bad and evil.
And you think that acting like the kind of nut that gets dismissed as a nut is the best available option? I'm pretty sure you can do better.
But, you know, don't let me stop you. For all I know looking like the net.equivalent of the crazy guy on the street corner shouting about the CIA replacing his brain with a computer is your idea of a good time. Just don't, y'know, expect to persuade lots of people.
Maybe you'd be better off agitating for a repartition of the US of A to keep the bad, evil, crazy, walking Gadsden Flags away from you? Or at least isolated in their own abscess states?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday August 15 2016, @06:03PM
*siiiiiigh*
The fact that you think pointing out something I've seen happen over and over and over again throughout history, each time with disastrous results, makes me the equivalent of one of Icke's disciples, says a lot more about you than it does me.
This isn't difficult. I hate seeing people repeat history. I understand that the internet is a force multiplier. And I also understand that, unfair as this is, people lend less weight to an idea that gets ridiculed. The egoistic thing to do would be, as you put it, trying to contain these people to their own "abcess states." That's neither realistic nor constructive, though; *everyone* is prone to this sort of hijacking of the R-complex. What are we gonna do, isolate every single person in their own little bubble? No, the cure for bad ideas is better ideas for those as can handle them, and memetic containment for those who can't.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @10:48PM
You still don't get it.
The problem isn't that I think you're wrong.
The problem is that even if you're right, you're being right in a way that makes you look crazy. Even if you're so right that it burns with a fierce vengeance, if you can't persuade everyone, you lose.
And if you're right, when you lose, we all lose.
So find your inner lunatic, strangle that sumbitch and leave the corpse in the ditch, and start making sense.
I mean, really.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday August 16 2016, @04:21AM
Tone-trolling is the last refuge of the scoundrel. If any of that sounds crazy, that is down to people refusing to get out of their comfort zones and THINK. It's deliberate, willful ignorance. How can that possibly be fixed? Nothing I say, in any way I say it, will get through to people like that for the simple reason that they don't WISH it to.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 17 2016, @02:35AM
Ok, you know what?
You're right, I'm wrong. You can keep sounding as crazy as you want, and that's going to convince everybody of all the things. Stuff you want to communicate? Crazy it up, my friend, because that will surely work.
Buzzard: you need to work up a book of the Assembled Wisdom of Prophet Azuma. It will be both eye-opening and mind-blowing. Maybe start a tumblr to get some buzz.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday August 17 2016, @05:23AM
You'd be funnier if you were right about this. I don't see what's crazy about pointing out that the same patterns have repeated over, and over, and over again through human history, always with the same results, and one person in a hundred million is a Siddhartha or a Mo Tzu or a Florence Nightingale who for one brief moment can get people to open their damn eyes and THINK.
I wouldn't compare myself to them, of course; they're better people than me, and their methods reached more people in better ways. I'm working with a much more limited mind and scope of experience, and my only real weapon is snark. But it's got to be better than just standing by and watching this fucking cycle repeat itself on a hundred different scales of size...
Seriously, WHAT is so crazy-sounding?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 17 2016, @04:36PM
You. You are crazy-sounding.
... and that is just a quick selection from this thread.
I don't know what part of any of those was supposed to get anybody to open their eyes to anything other than "This Hazuki-person seems deeply volatile..." but maybe some other posts are more informative about the World According to Hazuki. Let's check, shall we?
... and every time you call Donald Trump "Drumpf", as if you want to do some kind of Ellis Island purity test on the names of everyone in the USA.
Here's a mental exercise: picture someone on a street corner in Flatbush, wearing a sandwich board warning about chemtrails and alien rays, and shouting these things. It seems just about right, doesn't it?
That's what sounds crazy.
Hope this helps.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday August 17 2016, @06:20PM
Not a single piece of that is crazy. Angry, yes, but not crazy. Or is that the new definition of insane in the (post)modern world? If it is, well, screw it, this world is beyond saving then :/
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 17 2016, @10:22PM
Not crazy? I'll take you at your word that it's a limpid pool of purest sanity - with one exception.
It doesn't look sane. Some of it look angry, but it sure as hell doesn't look sane.
Consequently, it's not very persuasive. If someone starts screaming around me about people going to hell and the lessons of history damning all who follow the wrong path based on hatred and how they will never stop and .... yeah, it sounds kind of like some of the truther rhetoric around 9/11 or JFK's assassination or the Bilderberg Group. Most people will assume that the crazy is too strong to illuminate the truth, and move on.
So, how about, in a calm, lucid fashion specifically addressing a problem that you can identify and illustrate, with clear references and proposals?
Or you can keep screaming on your street corner. Whatever makes you feel good about yourself. I'm all about personal empowerment and self-actualisation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 11 2016, @09:52PM
Looks like the shrieking, name-calling, poo-flinging harpy gave up despite promising to never, ever, stop. Not surprised. I know their type.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 12 2016, @01:41AM
Not yet but she really, really should.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.