Texas A&M Student Senate approves CC

[57Coastie]

Texas A&M Student Senate approves concealed carry bill.
http://www.theeagle.com/news/a_m/articl ... 1ed43.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Jim

[AEA]

Gig 'em!

[RPB]

Thanks for that good news.

[fannypacker]

My grandson is a sophomore there and I know he approves.

[mescobar_rpls]

Whoop! Good job Ags!

MEscobar_RPLS
Fighting Texas Aggie Class of '97

[74novaman]

Glad they did so.

Unfortunately unless the legislature or the administration agrees with them, it is an empty gesture. I'm looking forward to the 2013 legislative session.

[E10]

The Eagle's survey question was badly worded: 'Do you think gun owners with concealed carry permits should not be allowed to have firearms on the grounds of Texas colleges and universities?' I almost answered 'Yes', but thought about it and re-read the question. The correct answer for most of us on this forum is, o' course, 'No'.

I continue to be amazed at the reaction of university professors (of whom I know quite a few here at the University of Texas at El Paso). In every mass shooting situation on a school campus, from Charles Whitman in 1966 to the present, the shooters violated laws against weapons on campus and the campus police and school administrators were powerless to prevent them. All the laws and signs do is prevent us law-abiding folks from carrying our otherwise legal weapons. If you wish to stop me from carrying my licensed handgun on school property, then also take whatever action necessary to prevent unlicensed carry as well - that means expensive metal detectors and/or intrusive searches of EVERY person at EVERY entrance to the campus; vehicles, too. Seems to me the easiest, cheapest, and best thing to do would be to allow legal concealed carry on campus (and everywhere else, too - courts, government meetings, amusement parks, etc., etc.).

The problem is that all these anti-gun nuts are fixated on the gun, when the trouble is with the criminal (who, o' course, is a victim of discrimination, or his upbringing, or how rich folks made too much money that they should have given to him, or...you get the idea).

I'm not an Aggie, but I've known enough of 'em to be able to say, 'Gig 'em!'

[Bugler]

An Aggies uncle!

[57Coastie]

An interesting sidelight, open to several conflicting interpretations.

http://gawker.com/5963079/nobody-rushin ... -gun-dorms" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Jim

[stroo]

Not really surprising if you think about it. First, how many students actually have ccw permits. Second, how many students over 21 actually still live in dorms. Most of those I have known over the years live in an apartment or house by the time they are 21.

[Abraham]

Must not be too many lefty prof/instructor types teaching/influencing the student body.

(please, someone stand up and inform us that NO lefty prof/instructor types exist at Texas A&M, thus common sense has prevailed with the student Senate...)

[57Coastie]

Must not be too many lefty prof/instructor types teaching/influencing the student body.

(please, someone stand up and inform us that NO lefty prof/instructor types exist at Texas A&M, thus common sense has prevailed with the student Senate...)

If there is one at A&M, Abraham, I have never met her or him. A&M is rated, year after year, as the most conservative college campus in the nation. The A&M Student Democratic Party has its annual caucus in a phone booth at the Memorial Student Center.

Jim

[Abraham]

Thanks 57Coastie!

And HOORAY!

[74novaman]

Must not be too many lefty prof/instructor types teaching/influencing the student body.

(please, someone stand up and inform us that NO lefty prof/instructor types exist at Texas A&M, thus common sense has prevailed with the student Senate...)

There is at least one who made Horowitz's book "The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America".

He's a sociologist who focuses on race/gender (which seems a redundant thing to say since MOST sociologists I've met are pretty obsessed with race/gender )

Here's his wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Feagin

And here is the first paragraph of the introduction to his book Liberation Sociology:

In the spring of 1845 one of the founders of the liberation sociology tradition, the young Karl Marx, wrote that "the philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." Sociologists centrally concerned about human emancipation and liberation extend this insight to the world we live in. The point of liberation sociology is not just to research the social world, but to change it in the direction of democracy and social justice.

I never took a class with the guy, but looking around his publications/articles I'll take a wild shot in the dark and guess that he might have just a slight bend to the left of the political spectrum.


There are good and bad professors at all schools. Sometimes you learn more from the bad ones than the good, even. I will say that I only had 1 professor who let his political beliefs actively interfere with his ability to present historical interpretations of events. There were some others that would occasionally let something slip to let you know what their personal beliefs were, but they were pretty good about sticking to the subject most of the time.