Campus-Carry: A Matter of Life and Death

[Charles L. Cotton]

Senator Brian Birdwell has filed SB11 that will allow Texas Concealed Handgun Licensees (CHLs) to carry self-defense handguns everywhere on the campus of public and private colleges and universities. (CHLs can currently carry everywhere on any school campus, except inside buildings and on activity grounds when a school-sponsored activity is ongoing.) A campus-carry bill has been filed every legislative session since 2009 and each bill has been opposed by people willing to outright lie about conditions on campuses throughout Texas and even the nation. We can expect more of the same this session, but it is a new day in the Texas Senate. One need only to look at the list of eighteen Senators who joined Sen. Birdwell’s SB11 as authors to gauge the support campus-carry enjoys in the Texas Senate. Couple this support with the new “Three Fifths Rule” and a strong Second Amendment Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and campus-carry is quite likely to pass the Senate.

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[joe817]

Wonderful news Charles. Thanks for the update!