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When I was out of state this summer I went to a minor league baseball game. In the state where I was this was not a prohibited location, so naturally I carried. The team I was rooting for lost, and I felt no compulsion, or even the slightest desire, to draw and gun down either the umpires or the other team. Just wanted to put in personal experience that shows that carrying at a sporting event does not mean the event will end in a bloodbath, as much as some people would like us to believe.

Can anyone come up with a good reason why sporting events should be off limits? Why were they even made off-limits in the first place? I can see continuing to prohibit carry at school sporting events, but that would seem to me to already be prohibited under §46.03 (1), "any grounds or building on which an activity sponsored by a school or educational institution is being conducted." So § 46.035 (2) wouldn't seem to me to be necessary at all if we were to make professional sporting events OK.

I was thinking about because of something that reminded me of the Houston Rodeo, and I was recalling how certain portions of that are off-limits because it falls under the definition of a professional sporting event.