Link to Today's TX Senate Hearing On SB11 and SB 17 (2-12)

[steveincowtown]

Here we go guys:

http://tlcsenate.granicus.com/MediaPlay ... ent_id=938" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Lets hope the vocal folks from OCTC, OCT, etc. can keep it respectful. I contacted CJ through twitter and Kory through Facebook and reminded them both that our even our Nation's independence was not one in one battle.

I also contacted my Senator (who is a co author on the bill) and thanked her.

Today is going to be a very, very long day for all involved in this hearing.

[RHenriksen]

And... it looks like Austin has finally replaced their RealPlayer video server? I didn't get any prompt to install Real Player on my new laptop, thank goodness!

Video quality looks very good, as well.

[locke_n_load]

Who is the senator who is speaking on behalf for campus carry? Bill author? Ellis?

[steveincowtown]

Who is the senator who is speaking on behalf for campus carry? Bill author? Ellis?

Sen. Birdwell.

This is great already and the public hasn't even started talking yet.

[RHenriksen]

My blood pressure is already going up.

[locke_n_load]

Senator talking about police missing their targets... What does that have to do with CHL holders carrying on campus? So ignorant.

[RHenriksen]

From what I recall reading, citizens have a much better hit rate than LEO...

[locke_n_load]

A&M chancellor - for campus carry (whoop!)
UT chancellor - guns are scary.

[steveincowtown]

The level of ignorance about SB17 by some of the Senators asking questions is unreal.

One Senator just proposed that we should close the gun show loophole to keep people from obtaining CHLs and open carrying.

[joelamosobadiah]

When people carry openly it will encourage would be perpetrators to commit a crime because they will assume that those are the only people that are carrying...

[TVGuy]

The level of ignorance about SB17 by some of the Senators asking questions is unreal.

One Senator just proposed that we should close the gun show loophole to keep people from obtaining CHLs and open carrying.

Ellis I believe. Very Anti-gun.

[locke_n_load]

They finally brought up that the SB17 makes a separate sign, they kept talking about 30.06 applying to OC.

[joelamosobadiah]

They finally brought up that the SB17 makes a separate sign, they kept talking about 30.06 applying to OC.

Yeah, after a couple statements talking about 30.06 I thought maybe I was mistaken about which bill was being discussed.

[Scott B.]

I've got it up on the monitor in the office. Thanks for the heads up.

[J.R.@A&M]

I like how the campus carry debate and initial testimony has gone so far.

Compared to previous sessions, it seems to me that the content of the debate has botton more specific and more relevant, e.g., emphasizing that campus carry is a personal defensive measure. And defusing the student age issue, and other irrelevant, hypothetical anti-arguments that we've all heard many times in previous sessions.