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Heartland Patriot wrote:

baldeagle wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:You have no idea what Dewhurst has done to make sure pro-gun legislation got votes in the Senate. If you want to support Cruz, then do so, but don't demean what the Lt. Governor has done for Texas gun owners.

Chas.

Charles, with all due respect, I monitored the last legislative session closely. When the Campus Carry bill came out of committee, Dewhurst did absolutely nothing to get it to the floor of the Senate. This allowed the opposition time to marshall their troops and defeat a bill that has passed that very same Senate just two years ago. I was very disappointed with his behavior, and there is no way I could support him. (And please don't tell me he didn't have the power to get that bill to the floor whenever he chose to. He chose not to push it, for whatever reason, and I can't forgive him for that.)

I guess that is what upset me, as well. That Campus Carry went down like it did. I wasn't there, I don't know the details of what happened, obviously. However, it seemed as if a few folks "on our side" decided that it was a live wire with some of their backers and they didn't want to support it...despite all the other pro-firearms stuff they may have supported in the past. So, "the word" went out and things went badly. Yes, in the grand scheme of things, a few hundred folks carrying on college campuses isn't really that big of a deal compared to a whole lot of other things, I get that...but its the PRINCIPAL of the matter. Its kicking the left where it hurts most, in their "academic heart". And them people NEED a good, swift kick, rhetorically speaking.