Texas Approves "Campus Carry" For College Students To Strap Up With Guns On Campus #AmericaFuckYeah
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas took a giant step closer to allowing concealed handguns in college classrooms, with House lawmakers giving their approval to a so-called “campus carry” measure, barely beating a midnight deadline.
The legislation, one of the two major gun rights bills of the session, had appeared destined to fail, with more than 100 amendments lined up in a Democratic effort to kill it.
But then Democrats abruptly dropped the amendments about 25 minutes before the deadline, and the chamber’s large Republican majority forced a vote, approving the measure 101-47.
“If Republicans wanted to celebrate Christmas in April, they have the votes,” said Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, who added that running out the clock was never really an option.
Midnight was the deadline for the House to pass bills that originated in the Senate. A final House vote on the measure Wednesday would set up negotiations with the Senate. A compromise would have to be sent to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott by June 1 to be signed into law.
Campus carry has been bitterly fought over for years in the second-most populous state and got a big boost this year from the Legislature’s large, tea party-influenced Republican majority. Abbott has pledged to sign any bill that expands gun rights in his first session.
At least 20 states allow some form of campus carry, but only a handful make it a defined right in state law, as the Texas bill would.
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Oh hell yeah! About time we let our college kids strap up. These are scary times we live in man. Seems like way too often we’re flipping on the news to see the coverage of yet another active shooter at a college or another campus locked down because of a possible threat. Can’t tell you how much safer I’d feel knowing every single person in my immediate vicinity was strapped with a pistol and had the safety off just waiting for a motherfucker to act up and start something. Especially when the sun goes down and it’s pregame time? Nothing mixes better than loaded handguns and tequila shots, I know that for a fact. Seriously just picture the next time some crazy lowlife scumbag decides they want to take out their miserable existence on innocent college students and tries to bring a gun on campus…only to get immediately lit up by like 150 different types of ammunition from all the Texans with itchy trigger fingers. Over before it even started. Bad. Ass.
Honestly what’s the downside? “Safety”? Who is even arguing the other side of this? A bunch of pussy whiny baby liberals who hate freedom and have never shot a gun in their life?
The bill has faced fierce opposition from gun control advocates and influential law enforcement and higher education officials, most notably the University of Texas System and Chancellor William McRaven, the former Navy SEAL who spearheaded the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
McRaven has told lawmakers that allowing concealed weapons could make campuses “less safe,” intimidate students and teachers and stifle free speech.
In a letter to lawmakers, McRaven said mental health professionals worry the mixture of guns and the emotional and psychological stresses on students, many of whom are away from home for the first time, could lead to more suicides and accidental shootings.
Ok a Navy SEAL who killed Bin Laden. I guess I could entertain his take on this. But no one else.