J.R.@A&M wrote:I phoned the Calendars committee members on Friday. I also emailed them all this morning:
Dear Rep. X. I am a professor and live in College Station. I strongly support HB 750 as a personal insurance/anti-crime law. It is indeed a measure involving personal risk, personal security, and personal liability. As such, you and I should have the choice about whether to get a CHL and carry concealed. I should have the choice, not university administration. The restriction on concealed carry in campus buildings has implications that reach far off campus. It affects me if I want to hike, bike, or ride the bus to campus (i.e., it effectively disarms CHLs en route). It affects me when I drive to campus by legally requiring me to leave my firearm in my car -- much more subject to theft than if it were on my person. The campus restriction effectively forces me to be disarmed when I drive across Texas to conduct educational programs for Texas AgriLife Extension Service. I respectfully ask that you let this proposal have consideration by the full House.
Well said! As a staff member at Texas A&M I appreciate your voice on this issue!
J.R.@A&M wrote:I phoned the Calendars committee members on Friday. I also emailed them all this morning:
Dear Rep. X. I am a professor and live in College Station. I strongly support HB 750 as a personal insurance/anti-crime law. It is indeed a measure involving personal risk, personal security, and personal liability. As such, you and I should have the choice about whether to get a CHL and carry concealed. I should have the choice, not university administration. The restriction on concealed carry in campus buildings has implications that reach far off campus. It affects me if I want to hike, bike, or ride the bus to campus (i.e., it effectively disarms CHLs en route). It affects me when I drive to campus by legally requiring me to leave my firearm in my car -- much more subject to theft than if it were on my person. The campus restriction effectively forces me to be disarmed when I drive across Texas to conduct educational programs for Texas AgriLife Extension Service. I respectfully ask that you let this proposal have consideration by the full House.
Well said! As a staff member at Texas A&M I appreciate your voice on this issue!
HB 750 was turned in to the Calendars Committee on 4/1/11.
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. James Madison
NRA Life Member Texas Firearms Coalition member
baldeagle wrote:HB 750 was turned in to the Calendars Committee on 4/1/11.
And got stuck there for the rest of the 82(R) session. Why did the committee kill it?
I believe the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the personal lives of strangers and those who do not.
baldeagle wrote:HB 750 was turned in to the Calendars Committee on 4/1/11.
And got stuck there for the rest of the 82(R) session. Why did the committee kill it?
The reason I think it was never scheduled for a vote was because it would have met the same fate in the Senate as SB354 (still needed a two-thirds vote to suspend the rules).
It's not guaranteed to pass so why try? I don't buy that excuse.
I believe the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the personal lives of strangers and those who do not.
As a staff member at Texas A&M I appreciate your voice on this issue!
Senate got Campus Carry "attached" twice, passed once.