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Thought you might find this interesting.
Take care,
DFW1911
Link to story and video:
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa081206_lj_watson.38544d4b.html
Lawmakers to consider end of campus gun ban
03:03 PM CST on Saturday, December 6, 2008
By BRAD WATSON / WFAA-TV
December 6th, 2008
When Texas lawmakers start meeting next month, they'll decide whether college students will be allowed to carry more than books to their classes.
Bills will be filed to expand the concealed handgun law.
They would allow permit holders to carry their guns on private and public college campuses.
For gun rights groups, it's priority number one.
The gunshots by a crazed student at Virginia Tech that left 32 people dead will echo in the Texas legislature.
"Campuses aren't immune to like assaults, rapes, murders and violent crime and we deserve the right to protect ourselves," said UTD student, Alexandra Ransom.
Ransom of Richardson is a junior at the University of Texas at Dallas.
She belongs to a group called Students for Concealed Carry on Campus that believes Texans with concealed handgun permits should be allowed to take their guns on college property.
State law bans concealed guns on campuses.
But bills will be filed in the legislature to allow them.
And they'll be backed by the one of the largest gun rights groups in Texas.
"There is no real reason to believe that a law that has been so successful in our general population will fail when it is taken into a college campus," said James Dark, of the Texas State Rifle Association.
As popular as gun rights issues are in Texas, opponents say the bill be fought hard in the legislature.
Representative Lon Burnam of Fort Worth says he understands in the emotion after Virginia Tech that gun supporters claimed a legally-armed student or teacher might've saved lives.
But he says campus security can be improved and adding more guns is too risky.
"If I were a faculty member I would be extremely concerned about the notion of students being allowed to walk into the classroom with guns," he said.
Gun bills don't always cut along party lines in the legislature.
In 2007, the Castle doctrine that expanded situations where people can use deadly force in homes, businesses and cars passed with heavy Republican and Democratic support.
Ransom, who's 19, hopes the law is changed so she can get concealed handgun license when she turns 21 and take her gun to school.
E-mail [email protected].
Thought you might find this interesting.
Take care,
DFW1911
Link to story and video:
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa081206_lj_watson.38544d4b.html
Lawmakers to consider end of campus gun ban
03:03 PM CST on Saturday, December 6, 2008
By BRAD WATSON / WFAA-TV
December 6th, 2008
When Texas lawmakers start meeting next month, they'll decide whether college students will be allowed to carry more than books to their classes.
Bills will be filed to expand the concealed handgun law.
They would allow permit holders to carry their guns on private and public college campuses.
For gun rights groups, it's priority number one.
The gunshots by a crazed student at Virginia Tech that left 32 people dead will echo in the Texas legislature.
"Campuses aren't immune to like assaults, rapes, murders and violent crime and we deserve the right to protect ourselves," said UTD student, Alexandra Ransom.
Ransom of Richardson is a junior at the University of Texas at Dallas.
She belongs to a group called Students for Concealed Carry on Campus that believes Texans with concealed handgun permits should be allowed to take their guns on college property.
State law bans concealed guns on campuses.
But bills will be filed in the legislature to allow them.
And they'll be backed by the one of the largest gun rights groups in Texas.
"There is no real reason to believe that a law that has been so successful in our general population will fail when it is taken into a college campus," said James Dark, of the Texas State Rifle Association.
As popular as gun rights issues are in Texas, opponents say the bill be fought hard in the legislature.
Representative Lon Burnam of Fort Worth says he understands in the emotion after Virginia Tech that gun supporters claimed a legally-armed student or teacher might've saved lives.
But he says campus security can be improved and adding more guns is too risky.
"If I were a faculty member I would be extremely concerned about the notion of students being allowed to walk into the classroom with guns," he said.
Gun bills don't always cut along party lines in the legislature.
In 2007, the Castle doctrine that expanded situations where people can use deadly force in homes, businesses and cars passed with heavy Republican and Democratic support.
Ransom, who's 19, hopes the law is changed so she can get concealed handgun license when she turns 21 and take her gun to school.
E-mail [email protected].
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