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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 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.