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The Eagle's survey question was badly worded: 'Do you think gun owners with concealed carry permits should not be allowed to have firearms on the grounds of Texas colleges and universities?' I almost answered 'Yes', but thought about it and re-read the question. The correct answer for most of us on this forum is, o' course, 'No'.

I continue to be amazed at the reaction of university professors (of whom I know quite a few here at the University of Texas at El Paso). In every mass shooting situation on a school campus, from Charles Whitman in 1966 to the present, the shooters violated laws against weapons on campus and the campus police and school administrators were powerless to prevent them. All the laws and signs do is prevent us law-abiding folks from carrying our otherwise legal weapons. If you wish to stop me from carrying my licensed handgun on school property, then also take whatever action necessary to prevent unlicensed carry as well - that means expensive metal detectors and/or intrusive searches of EVERY person at EVERY entrance to the campus; vehicles, too. Seems to me the easiest, cheapest, and best thing to do would be to allow legal concealed carry on campus (and everywhere else, too - courts, government meetings, amusement parks, etc., etc.).

The problem is that all these anti-gun nuts are fixated on the gun, when the trouble is with the criminal (who, o' course, is a victim of discrimination, or his upbringing, or how rich folks made too much money that they should have given to him, or...you get the idea).

I'm not an Aggie, but I've known enough of 'em to be able to say, 'Gig 'em!'