Texas Campus Carry

[Charles L. Cotton]

Texas doesn't allow good guys to carry in college classrooms because the 60% to 70% Republican majority didn't want to pass it. People can make all kinds of excuses but it doesn't change the facts. Speaker Straus would have got it on the calendar if the Republicans wanted it to become law.

You could not be more wrong.

Chas.

[sugar land dave]

I might consider campus carry more seriously if there were not so many personal attacks.

[74novaman]

I might consider campus carry more seriously if there were not so many personal attacks.

What?

Are you refering to personal attacks on this forum?

1) I'd love to see an example of what you're talking about

and

2) Why on earth would you decide whether or not to support expanding the right to carry based on how annonymous people on the internet behave?

[SewTexas]

thank you, Novaman, for saying it first. given the fact that I have one teen starting college classes, thankfully online. My other is a junior, so is getting close. Both expect to carry on their 21st birthday I'd like that to include college if that's where they are.

[recaffeination]

Texas doesn't allow good guys to carry in college classrooms because the 60% to 70% Republican majority didn't want to pass it. People can make all kinds of excuses but it doesn't change the facts. Speaker Straus would have got it on the calendar if the Republicans wanted it to become law.

You could not be more wrong.

That's possible. I'm only human.

So I can avoid the same mistake in the future, what was wrong? The percentage of Republicans? My suggestion that the Speaker of the House can get his hand picked calendar committee to schedule the bills he wants on the calendar?

[Charles L. Cotton]

Texas doesn't allow good guys to carry in college classrooms because the 60% to 70% Republican majority didn't want to pass it. People can make all kinds of excuses but it doesn't change the facts. Speaker Straus would have got it on the calendar if the Republicans wanted it to become law.

You could not be more wrong.

That's possible. I'm only human.

So I can avoid the same mistake in the future, what was wrong? The percentage of Republicans? My suggestion that the Speaker of the House can get his hand picked calendar committee to schedule the bills he wants on the calendar?

Your statements that 1) 70% of the Republicans didn't want campus-carry to pass, and 2) that the Speaker does what a majority in his party want done were wrong. The Speaker can be and often is a dictator. He controls committee appointments and chairmanships and that's how you control legislation. What the Speaker wants to pass at least gets to the Floor for debate and voting; what he doesn't want to pass never gets to the Floor.

Chas.

[Jasonw560]

So, Charles, this early in the game, does TSRA have someone they would like to see as speaker?