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dicion wrote:I found this quote funny on a website:

Perry's Democratic challenger, Bill White, said he supports the state law that lets people with licenses carry concealed handguns. But he wants individual schools to decide whether to allow guns on campus.

He said Perry's position "is the government ought to coerce campuses to allow concealed handguns on campus."

Uhm, Correct me if I'm wrong, but even IF Campus Carry passes, any PRIVATE university could STILL ban CHL with a 30.06 sign on buildings
Unless there's something in the statute that says they would not be able to? Its been a while since I read 2009's Attempted bill.

Government universities would not be able to, but government law is not 'coercing' a state owned campus.... it's government governing government....

I thought it was funny when I read it, too. Then Charles posted the rest of the story in this thread: Perry v. White on Campus-carry issue

Codename46 wrote:

Hoi Polloi wrote:

The_Reason wrote:Fantastic talk, really glad I was able to catch it....

Tons of good information to battle all of those gun bashing liberals that have no facts to back up their argument....

LOOK OUT! HE's ARMED WITH STATISTICS!!!!!!!

How was the turn-out?

~100 people.

Awesome! The place must have been packed!

The_Reason wrote:Fantastic talk, really glad I was able to catch it....

Tons of good information to battle all of those gun bashing liberals that have no facts to back up their argument....

LOOK OUT! HE's ARMED WITH STATISTICS!!!!!!!

How was the turn-out?

bronco78 wrote:

Hoi Polloi wrote:Oh, and contacting the Federalists' leaders might help as well. They're rightfully getting pressure from above to stick with their principles when they are directly relevant to the situation on campus and not an exercise in theory. Getting some information from those "below" to the same effect wouldn't hurt.

Do you have a point of contact? phone number? Email?

I'm sorry that I'm only now seeing this, 3 hours after it started.

I, too, want to know how it went!

Oh, and contacting the Federalists' leaders might help as well. They're rightfully getting pressure from above to stick with their principles when they are directly relevant to the situation on campus and not an exercise in theory. Getting some information from those "below" to the same effect wouldn't hurt.

Will someone please find that thread that has people listed by location and then PM all the greater Austin people on it a link to this thread and ask them if they're able to attend the talk to night? Some people might not be logged in and checking the forums, but might get PM notices by email so you'd reach more people that way.

Here's an example you can copy and paste or edit as needed for the PM:

Subject: Help needed in Austin TONIGHT - 6 PM Presentation

The UT Austin Concealed Carry on Campus group has a scheduled presenter tonight: John Lott, author of "More Guns, Less Crime." In case you are unaware, there was a gunman on the UT Austin campus today apparently carrying an AK47. Thankfully, no one was hurt by his random shots. He committed suicide and an investigation is ongoing. The SCCC event has been moved off-campus to Brave New Books conference room at 1904 Guadalupe Street at 6 PM (it is not a posted location so you may carry) and the media is being invited.

Unfortunately, the UT Austin Federalists group dropped their support of the event after today's shooting (despite their larger organization urging them to continue supporting it), which means the Concealed Carry on Campus group really needs our help. If you're able to pitch in for the pizza and drinks the Federalists were supposed to be covering or, more importantly, if you can come down and help them to pack that bookstore to the gills tonight, it would go a long way to helping protect and defend our 2A rights as we head into the next legislative session. We need the public to see that MORE guns on campus would have been a benefit, not a risk in situations like today's and they need to see how MANY of us there are who know this.

Let's help them to protect themselves on campus instead of making themselves easy and defenseless targets! Here's a link to the thread for more info: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=38328&start=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

75 people in a venue that is designed for 50 will look way better in the news articles I hope you pursue than 100 in a facility for 500 would look.

What a great angle to pitch to the news crews who are already down there and gun-focused that the Concealed Carry on Campus group is hosting a related talk tonight. I imagine you'd have a few journalists falling over themselves for the piece! Start calling them now! Start with TV crews then move to print then to online.

"I have a great piece to pitch to you in light of the unfortunate UT shooting. The UT Concealed Carry on Campus group has a previously-scheduled speaker tonight presenting on the topic of 'More Guns, Less Crime.' The presenter is an [award-winning, or whatever accolades he has] author who says that [whatever quote he actually says] having more guns on campus would reduce gun crime and that it is the gun-free zone which attracts criminals who want easy and defenseless victims, which they are sure to find in our schools due to the gun-free school zone laws. Due to the ongoing investigation on campus, the talk has been moved to Brave New Books conference room at 1904 Guadalupe Street at 6 PM and the media is welcome to attend. Attendance is [cost--free?]."

Codename46 wrote:EDIT: Since the local Federalist Society no longer will fund this (they dropped support for the event tonight) we may not have pizzas. Don't know though. Gonna negotiate with the neighboring Dominos

They just now dropped their support? That's really low.