Liberty wrote:I voted for Campus Carry, although I am not a student, and probably won't be spending much time at a college campus in the future.
If we can get the CC through we will be doing more to protect our children. I believe that our children at more risk on our campuses than most workers are during their commute and at their work parking lots. Most of us are allowed to at least take our guns and leave them in the parking lots at work. Some who aren't allowed can still leave them in the car, there is no legal risk. Students face criminal charges if they decide to carry on campus.
If we get this law through, it will make a positive statement to the community that there is no blood in the street. That those who legally carry guns are, the same folks that make our world safer. I see Campus Carry as the big enchillada, The one law that when passed that makes such a positive statement, that any antigun law becomes irrelevant. After all if we as a state decide that its ok to have carry our guns in our schools, and bad stuff doesn't happen. Doesn't it make arguments to ban guns in the workplace or just about anywhere silly?
While this might be the most difficult law to pass, this will be the most opportune time in our lifetime. We have a huge majority and a Governor who is in favor of this. 2 years from now we could lose some of the legislative strength we now enjoy.
I won't be happy until we have full and unrestricted right to carry, While some might see the right for Open carry to be the path to accomplish this, I see it as being a divisive, people seeing more guns on people in the malls and streets isn't going to make the average civilian feel warmer or cozier. But knowing that folks are carrying on our campuses as well as our malls and churches, should make it more difficult for Texas businesses to ban guns from our workplaces.
