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dale blanker wrote:

E10 wrote:

LucasMcCain wrote:Just because they don't like a law doesn't mean they get to ignore it.

Why not? The President has been ignoring laws he doesn't like for more than seven years. They're just following his example. In this case, I sincerely hope the legislature doesn't follow the example of the Congress by letting them get away with it.

Isn't local control the kind we prefer over dictates from feds or state???

As for state control/laws, absolutely not! Not under any circumstances. The mantra "local control" is code for local tyranny. Would you want local control over licenses to carry, driver's license requirements, minimum age for consuming alcohol? The only issues that should be left to local government to control are things such as the municipal tax rate, speed limits on streets not funded with state or federal money, library fees, etc. Any issue or subject matter that has been addressed by the Texas Legislature should be off-limits to any unit of local government, as well as any issue the legislature has refused to regulate.

Chas.

ELB wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:... That said, the legislative fix will be faster and it will apply across the board to all public schools.
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Chas.

So is there willingness among the legislators to revisit campus carry next session?

It's far too early to tell.

Chas.

I'm a UH Law Center grad and I'm proud to say that my school may well be the poster child for getting the Texas Legislature to amend the so-called campus carry law to revoke all discretion given to schools to determine off-limits areas. The Draft Campus Carry Policy is absurd and I would be quite happy to file suit against UH on August 2, 2016 if they put anything remotely close to this into practice on August 1, 2016. That said, the legislative fix will be faster and it will apply across the board to all public schools.

Congratulations UH, you have proven my predictions to have been accurate.

Chas.