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TexasTornado wrote:

Papa_Tiger wrote:

RogueUSMC wrote:already having had a year, why are community colleges any different?

From a logistics standpoint, I can understand why community colleges will implement at a separate time. Allowing universities the ability to set up "reasonable restrictions" on where handguns may be carried was required to get the bill passed. The legislature wanted to be able to review the restrictions implemented by the universities to see if the intent of the law was being followed. I would imagine that there are fewer public 4-year universities than community colleges. Having the 4-year universities go first allows the legislature to evaluate the implementations and take action to set guidelines that the community colleges can follow as a template.

For example, if 4-year universities decide that areas that have school aged children should be off limits (justified erroneously by a tortured reading of TPC 46.03 (a)(1)), then this gives the legislature time to fix TPC 46.03 (a)(1) and state that it should not be used as justification to ban people from carrying in classrooms that could have dual credit high-school students in attendance.

Also the resources available to a 4 year institution to meet a shortened deadline far exceed that of most community schools. I doubt little Grayson College is going to have a conglomerate of boards, presidents, and reagents working on their implementation policy.