Comments on Guns on Campus
When I addressed this issue with my state senator Dan Patrick two years ago, his only response was that we have the right, according the the Second Amendment, to carry firearms. Evidently, the only consideration, then, is an amendment, and no other considerations should be considered. Then, of course, when faced with mind-blowing events such as an attempted assassination of a congresswoman and the murder of her friends and colleagues, we immediately retreat into a flight or fight response, and legislators tend to fight by retreating into the most obvious solution, instead of the most constructive. Even if staff and faculty are required to be CHL holders, this cannot guarantee that they are in fact safe users of their CHL -- there are actions of violence conducted by Texas CHL holders every year, and though we may acknoledge that they are a minority, these assaults by CHL holders still occur. Being a CHL holder doesn't magically make one a safe gun user. Neither would allowing...