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Well, perhaps it is a little late, but I just emailed the following:

Dear Senator,

I am writing to express my support for eliminating the restriction on CHL holder's to carry on college and university campuses in the state of Texas. I would have preferred for one of the existing bills, such as Senator Wentworth’s SB354, to have passed on it's own merit. However as we seem to be left with the prospect of attaching this legislation as an amendment to SB 5, I would ask you to support this measure as well. As SB 5 is a bill pertaining to higher education matters, the amendment is completely germane to SB 5.

As a 15 year employee of a private university, I have first hand experience at being dis-armed on a daily basis just because my place of work resides inside of an arbitrary boundary. And while this bill will still allow my university to 'opt-out' and will therefore not immediately have an impact on me (I actually preferred the language in HB 86); I would still choose not to deny my peers at public universities to practice the God given and constitutionally protected right of self defense that has been denied us for so so long.

Further, my daughters are 15 and 13 currently and will likely attend college in Texas in a few short years. Even though they will be under 21 for much of this time, I would know - and more importantly criminals would know - that they do not reside in a supposedly gun free zone.

Sincerely,