A&M Commerce Editorial: Guns on campus will be blunder

[RPB]

The East Texan Student Newspaper of A&M-Commerce

http://www.theeasttexan.com/guns-may-so ... -1.2041174" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Guns may soon be legal on Texas campuses
By Savannah Christian & Nick Bailey
Published: Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Updated: Wednesday, March 2, 2011 13:03





Editorial: Guns on campus will be blunder
By
Published: Monday, March 7, 2011
Updated: Monday, March 7, 2011 23:03
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[chasfm11]

Why not allow the individual universities to determine for themselves whether or not to accept concealed handguns on campus? Put the issue up for a student referendum, hold informational meetings and debates and let the students decide

I think that is a great idea. Why don't we expand the student decision process to other Amendments, too. The student body can define for themselves what constitutes free speech and the parameters for unlawful search and seizure.

[flintknapper]

And, if this legislation is forced on the student body, and when it fails to decrease but rather increases violence, TheEast Texan willjoin SGA and Faculty Senate in saying "We told you so."

My question to them is this:

When it DOESN'T result in more violence...will you be intellectually honest enough to come back and say "We were wrong"?

Smart money says....they won't.

[RPB]

Same student paper

http://www.theeasttexan.com/students-an ... -1.2075204" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Students and faculty speak out against imminent gun legislation
By
Published: Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Updated: Tuesday, March 8, 2011 00:03

[RPB]

Why not allow the individual universities to determine for themselves whether or not to accept BIBLES, TORAHS and QURANS on campus? Put the issue up for a student referendum, hold informational meetings and debates and let the students decide

I think that is a great idea. Why don't we expand the student decision process to other Amendments, too. The student body can define for themselves what constitutes free speech and the parameters for unlawful search and seizure.

Edited for the same proposition, but different Constitutional Amendment to see how it looks

[chasfm11]

The student voting thing got me thinking. Maybe they can take a page from American Idol and let the students vote professors that they don't like off.

Wait.... my creative juices are flowing. Maybe we can expand that voting to the whole population of Texas? Naw, we already did that and the process elected representatives who are supposed to campus carry bill in the Legislature. Of course, we don't want to let them get in the way of the students decision making and self determination.

[RPB]

Be sure to vote in the poll ... right side of the page

http://www.theeasttexan.com/editorial-g ... -1.2075125" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Do you think guns should be allowed on campus?
Yes 37 % (13)
No 60 % (21)
I don't care 3 % (1)

Total number of votes: 35


I love the way questions are asked prejudicially.
(Advocacy in wording)

If we answer "no" do they take away the guns the police have?
I mean ... if no guns are allowed ...

I think Billy, Cindy, and Mary Gun should be allowed to matriculate, so yes.

[flintknapper]

^^^^^^^^^

If we answer "no" do they take away the guns the police have?

Not without a student vote!

[RPB]

^^^^^^^^^

If we answer "no" do they take away the guns the police have?

Not without a student vote!

I think the Police would say ... "We have guns, that pretty much trumps anything you got, go ahead and vote"

[Thomas]

PLEASE VOTE, IT WILL REALLY COUNT

Yes
46 %
(19)

No
51 %
(21)

I don't care
2 %
(1)

[redlin67]

Do you think guns should be allowed on campus?
Yes . 50 % (25)
No . 48 % (24)
I don't care . 2 % (1)

Total number of votes: 50

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[Thomas]

By the way, this poll works on cookies. If you have multiple Internet browsers available to you, they probably don't share cookies...

Yes . 52 % (27)
No . 46 % (24)
I don't care . 2 % (1)

Total number of votes: 52