Steve your daughter is representative of thousands of students. While the concern about the mass shooter is real, and can happen, the fact is that our children need to be able to protect from the more everyday type criminals who represent the real threats.srothstein wrote:Well, to give you all one example of a person the current restriction is hurting, I would show my daughter. She is a freshman/junior (transfer credits to make junior status, but started new program so basically freshman classes) at Texas State University in San Marcos. She lives in Luling with the family and commutes each day. She is in a few clubs, so two or three days a week, she is on campus well past dark. She rides a motor cycle to and from school (even in the rain or cold). She has not gone for her CHL yet because she has no place to leave the pistol while in class.
Oh yeah, she is also a veteran going to school on the GI bill. And she does not drink at all.
And I worry every time she is out there on campus late, even though (or maybe because) I know what the crime rate is in San Marcos and on campus. If this bill passes, we will have one more CHL on campus. And it will be someone whose judgment in an emergency I trust (and I do recognize how much weight that should carry with everyone else).
Using the oppositions reasoning, that schools are a special situation where guns need to be removed because its so stressful. Should we disarm police officers, pilots and oh yeah our combat troops?