Texas to pass bill allowing guns on college campuses

By Sahil Kapur
Monday, February 21st, 2011 -- 9:44 am

 

WASHINGTON – Texas is poised to approve a measure allowing college students and professors to carry guns on campus, an initiative with strong support in the state legislature that critics concede they probably can't stop.

The legislation has been championed by Gov. Rick Perry, co-sponsored by over half the lawmakers in the state House, and approved two years ago in the Senate. Texas would follow Utah, the only state in the nation to have a similar law.

"It's strictly a matter of self-defense," state Sen. Jeff Wentworth, a Republican, told The Associated Press. "I don't ever want to see repeated on a Texas college campus what happened at Virginia Tech, where some deranged, suicidal madman goes into a building and is able to pick off totally defenseless kids like sitting ducks."

The measure's supporters commonly argue that it would make campus shootings less likely, not more, wading into a key point of contention between opponents and proponents of looser gun laws.

 

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Comment by Sweettina2 on February 23, 2011 at 1:58pm
Right on Fireguy!  Yep, Rick NWO Perry has been my nemesis for a loooong time now.  His office and I tango often.
Comment by fireguy on February 22, 2011 at 9:23pm
Texans this is a good law "git 'er done"  but please don't be fooled by Rick Perry the globalist Neo Con (vict).

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