SOME TEXAS UNIVERSITIES TO CREATE ‘GUN FREE ZONES’ TO CIRCUMVENT CAMPUS CARRY

By Hammerhead

When I read headlines like this one, I am reminded of a maxim my father used to say when I was a kid:

You can offer a drowning man a life jacket, but you can’t make him use it. The decision to live, is ultimately, always up to the individual.

But what about when these confused individuals try to influence others, (and by “others” in this case, I mean our own children), to take the same course of action as they? Don’t we, as parents, have the right to draw the line in how far a person (especially an educator) can go in leading our kids down a primrose path as dangerous as this?

According to an article in the LA Times, some Universities across the nation, including the University of Texas, who seems to be leading the charge in this endeavor, are planning on installing “Gun Free Zones” in an attempt to circumvent Campus Carry Laws recently enacted into law (which go into effect August of 2016) which allows those students with concealed carry licenses to carry a firearm on campus for self-defense.

To all these so-called “educated” people (Professors mind you) leading the charge in this foolish endeavour I ask the following questions:

1. What makes you think that installing so-called “gun free zones” in your school makes you any safer? Do you think a confused individual who has set it in his mind to kill people with a firearm  will pay attention to a sign?
2. Were not these same types of signs installed at:

• UC Merced where 4 students were recently stabbed
• Umpqua Community College where 9 people were shot and killed?
• St. Louis Military Recruiting Center where 5 People were shot and Killed?

I think the stats show that Mentally Confused People and Criminals Don’t care about signs, Just like they don’t care about Gun laws, so why punish the legal citizens who have to abide by them?

As for your other argument, where is your Data that students who carry firearms while on campus are dangerous or a threat to other students? On the contrary, if you look at the data we have on schools that already have campus carry, like in Colorado for example, which has had Campus Carry since 2003, their record is stellar as regards to student safety.

For a much more detailed analysis of WHY Campus Carry is a GOOD IDEAL, check out Students For Concealed Carry.

Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!