University Park and Concealed Carry

[Lonest4r]

So here is my little venting session: I go to a university in Dallas that is very close to University Park and Highland Park (hint hint). I had inquired with the university police as to the repercussions of leaving the weapon in my car while I am in school and obviously they said that weapons are not allowed to be on campus (as is par with almost every campus police dept with whom you speak). Having a weapon on campus is in the honor code and I could get expelled for being caught on campus with a weapon. I had managed to find a workaround while I finish up my final semester in school by keeping my car parked around a University Park (a local city) public park. Until this point the parking was open to anyone, some spots you could park there all day and others were 2 hour parking. So i would leave my gun locked up in my car, technically off campus property, leaving me safe from the university's disciplinary action.

The city of University Park recently passed a residential parking district ordinance, making it a punishable offense to be parked anywhere on their public "residential parking zone" without a city resident parking sticker. This has caused some controversy with their city residents as well as university students. The residents are unhappy because they only get two stickers per household, and the students are unhappy because they had been avoiding the ridiculously expensive parking permit, which they will now have to purchase. My issues is neither of these two; I have a parking pass and I'm not a resident of their city, but their new ordinance leaves me with no way to protect myself on my way to and from school. Additionally, I have no protection for the trips i make to industrial areas of Dallas for my school engineering project (areas like Irving blvd and other places where you don't want to be stopped for too long). So if anyone knows a University Park resident who only needs one of their stickers for the next month and a half I could probably pay them to use it for the rest of the time I have left at school.

[RPB]

Public or "so-called private" University?

Did you tell this to the Representatives/Senators who have the power to change the situation?

They want to know things exactly like this, how it affects individuals in Texas, rather than "Virginia Tech was bad"


Edited because keyboard battery died

[Lonest4r]

Public or "so-called private" University?

Did you tell this to the Representatives/Senators who have the power to change the situation?

They want to know things like this rather than "Virginia Tech was bad"

"so-called private"
I suppose I have some time this weekend to write some letters.

[baldeagle]

Public or "so-called private" University?

Did you tell this to the Representatives/Senators who have the power to change the situation?

They want to know things like this rather than "Virginia Tech was bad"

"so-called private"
I suppose I have some time this weekend to write some letters.

You need to send an email TODAY to Alice Tripp. She can use this at the Senate testimony this afternoon. Just copy and paste what you wrote originally. It's perfect. Alice's address is AGTripp@aol.com. This is a dynamite argument for not exempting private schools, not to mention the employee parking lot bill.

[RPB]

PLEASE

Copy Paste your original post and (name the school) and put your name address and phone and email to Alice AGTripp@aol.com and
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Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:45 am
We are still accepting written testimonies--you can send them to txsccc@yahoo.com

If it's too late this time, it can help on the next one.

That's the type of situations/experiences the lawmakers need to hear.

I think one committee member is from Dallas area, so he'll know your Irving Blvd area reference.

[Lonest4r]

Here is what i sent to Tripp:
Dear Ms. Tripp,
I have some testimony for pro-concealed carry on campus. Here is why I need this bill to not exempt "private" universities.
I am a licensed concealed handgun carrier. I go to a university in Dallas that is very close to University Park and Highland Park (hint hint). I had inquired with the university police as to the repercussions of leaving the weapon in my car while I am in school and obviously they said that weapons are not allowed to be on campus (as is par with almost every campus police dept with whom you speak). Having a weapon on campus is in the honor code and I could get expelled for being caught on campus with a weapon. I had managed to find a workaround while I finish up my final semester in school by keeping my car parked around a University Park (a local city) public park. Until this point the parking was open to anyone, some spots you could park there all day and others were 2 hour parking. So I would leave my gun locked up in my car, technically off campus property, leaving me safe from the university's disciplinary action.

The city of University Park recently passed a residential parking district ordinance, making it a punishable offense to be parked anywhere on their public "residential parking zone" without a city resident parking sticker. This has caused some controversy with their city residents as well as university students. The residents are unhappy because they only get two stickers per household, and the students are unhappy because they had been avoiding the ridiculously expensive parking permit, which they will now have to purchase. My issues is neither of these two; I have a parking pass and I'm not a resident of their city, but their new ordinance leaves me with no way to protect myself on my way to and from school. Additionally, I have no protection for the trips i make to industrial areas of Dallas for my school engineering project (areas like Irving blvd and other places where you don't want to be stopped for too long). Already, there have been a few occasions where I have felt the situation could have left me dead or dying along the side of the road, but i did not have not had my handgun with me should an immediate and deadly threat present itself. The exemption for private universities will leave me, and others in a similar situation, unable to defend ourselves.

Sincerely,
Nathan Nickel
(Address and phone removed)

I also sent a similar one to the txsccc address as well

[RPB]

Thank you, you done good

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http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/ ... 00354I.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT

"S.B. 354 is an effort to aid students, faculty, and visitors on college campuses in protecting themselves not only from mass shootings like those that occurred on Virginia Tech University and Northern Illinois University campuses, but from other life-threatening situations " ...

This is what "Impact Witnesses/Statements" are for, how does it affect/impact you?

John Woods followers imaginations:
"I'll be scared of things I can't see, like when mommy turns the light off without a night light, and it's all dark and the normally concealed "closet monster" MIGHT come out ..."

or

Real people experiences:
"I have to drive defenseless through dangerous parts of town to get to work on a "private university" campus, and had to get out and change a flat tire while hearing gunshots all around me, I was scared."

Which sounds more important?
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Statements like yours help a lot, thanks.

[Jasonw560]

John Woods followers imaginations:
"I'll be scared of things I can't see, like when mommy turns the light off without a night light, and it's all dark and the normally concealed "closet monster" MIGHT come out ..."

or

This is the ONLY time I wish my wife was getting her master's at UT-Brownsville. Would be very compelling testimony. That's what I get for marrying a woman with common sense.