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While it's true that someone who is in active military service or a veteran can get a Texas CHL before age 21, the number of college students who fit that description is vanishingly small. Fewer than 50 people age 18 to 20 have a CHL.

The important point is that the straw man argument about "drunken teenage frat boys" having weapons is ridiculous. The vast majority of CHL holders are over 21, most much older.

When you're trying to inform people about facts, it's too easy to overwhelm them with irrelevant details.

- Jim

People who write this kind of LTE are hopeless, but you have to refute them for the sake of readers who may be open-minded.

If everyone on campus had had a gun then you would have had a circular firing squad and more people dead.

To begin with, this is a straw man. "Everyone on campus" will never be armed. Most of them would not if they legally could. Only one to two percent of the adult population legally carries a weapon.

People defend themselves with firearms over a million times a year (mostly not shooting), and innocent people are rarely shot by defenders or the police.

The reason for this is simple enough. When the police arrive and yell, "Police! Drop your weapon!" the good guys do that. The bad guys usually don't.

The second amendment has been around for 200 years and America is no safer because of it. It's time to repeal the second amendment and excercise strict gun control.

This argument has to be hammered home every time: Nearly everyone who commits a crime with a firearm acquired or possesses the weapon illegally. They are underage, previously convicted felons, or illegal aliens. "Gun control" did nothing to stop them. It can't. It will never work.

- Jim

The "woman" idea was just something that popped into my head.

Most people who think about concealed carry at all think of it as a male issue. Many of them outright think it is a redneck issue. They simply don't think that women have CHLs or an interest in firearms.

- Jim

The class is 10 hours minimum.

... and attend an 8 hour class teaching conflict resolution and laws concerning self defense and concealed carry, and pass a shooting proficiency test

A person should not be forced to forfeit their right to protection to obtain an education.

The pronoun and its antecedent do not agree in number here. People frequently speak this way; but being in college, you probably should use standard grammar.

You could make the statement more politically correct by phrasing it, "A woman should not be forced to forfeit her right to protection to obtain an education."

You might was to throw in a couple of paragraph breaks. Newspaper editors hate long paragraphs, and readers tend to gloss over them.

- Jim