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marmar

(77,056 posts)
Mon May 6, 2013, 08:44 PM May 2013

Now turn in your bluebooks......OR ELSE !!!!!


AUSTIN, Texas, May 6 (Reuters) - The Texas House of Representatives on Monday gave final approval to a proposal to allow concealed handgun license holders to carry guns into buildings on college campuses.

The proposal, which was approved on a vote of 102-41, would allow public colleges and universities to opt out of allowing guns in buildings after consulting with students, faculty and staff. Private colleges and universities could opt in.

The measure, known as the campus carry bill, now goes to the Senate, where a different proposal has stalled in committee.

The author of the House proposal, Republican Allen Fletcher, said he was not trying to arm people so that they could be heroes during mass shootings on college campuses, but to protect themselves. .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/texas-house-campus-carry-guns-colleges_n_3225310.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037



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Now turn in your bluebooks......OR ELSE !!!!! (Original Post) marmar May 2013 OP
Let the carnage begin! Warpy May 2013 #1
It has yet to begin in Utah, and it's been law there for years. friendly_iconoclast May 2013 #4
What could go wrong... nadinbrzezinski May 2013 #2
Absolutely stupid. Apophis May 2013 #3
Sounds like a fine idea to me. I've never been concerned about legally armed civilians... Demo_Chris May 2013 #5

Warpy

(111,174 posts)
1. Let the carnage begin!
Mon May 6, 2013, 09:17 PM
May 2013

Don't like your grade? BANG! Girl won't give you the time of day? POW! Jock looks at you funny? BLOOEY!

Kids in their late teens and early twenties, the perfect candidates to be gun toters in school.

 

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
4. It has yet to begin in Utah, and it's been law there for years.
Mon May 6, 2013, 10:12 PM
May 2013

But maybe Texans are more violent than Utahns, I wouldn't know either way...

 

Demo_Chris

(6,234 posts)
5. Sounds like a fine idea to me. I've never been concerned about legally armed civilians...
Tue May 7, 2013, 01:13 AM
May 2013

But then, guns don't send me into underwear drenching panic, so I've got that going for me.

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