[SaLifHoq]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110220/...guns_on_campus


Texas poised to pass bill allowing guns on campus

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110220/...guns_on_campus

[Slchtjgb]

They going to need to get a whole lot more of their population covered with health insurance or they're going to drive their hospital emergency rooms out of business.

I love Austin, and I'll be back there in a few weeks.

[desmond001]

Two words: Virginia Tech.

[golfmenorca]

UT in Austin had their own shooter just a few months ago.

[Eromaveabeara]

Yes, I had forgotten about that.

Obviously, more guns on campus is tha answer!

[Tw1anJOO]

to protect your home, yes.

but i dont get it,
why on a school campus??

[inilbowly]

People that love guns think life is better when everyone is holding one. But here's the conundrum that I've never heard a gun advocate adequately answer.

They wave around data showing that some of the areas with more liberal gun sales and carrying laws have lower levels of violent crime. One factor there may be that most of those areas are also less densely populated.

On the other hand, virtually all of the areas with liberal gun sales and carrying laws have the highest levels of gun-related injuries and deaths.

That's the distinction: criminal vs accidental. Crime may be lower, but the odds that you and the people you know will be injured or die at the hands of someone holding a gun skyrocket when more people around you are holding a gun. You may feel safer with that gun nearby, but the odds that you or someone you know will be shot by that gun are much higher just by the fact the it's there.

[9V4i8xw1]

to protect your home, yes.

but i dont get it,
why on a school campus??

If Students or Profs had a gun at VT perhaps one of them could have splattered Cho's brains before he totaled 32 death's and many more wounded. If not perhaps Cho would have hesitated in the attack knowing that some of the victims may have been armed. One could argue that the fact that a campus is a gun free zone makes it more of a targrt for these loons.

[DoctorTDent]

to protect your home, yes.

but i dont get it,
why on a school campus??

Keggers. You know, college kids, alcohol and firearms are such a good mix.

[mr.supervideogoodfd]

If Students or Profs had a gun at VT perhaps one of them could have splattered Cho's brains before he totaled 32 death's and many more wounded. If not perhaps Cho would have hesitated in the attack knowing that some of the victims may have been armed. One could argue that the fact that a campus is a gun free zone makes it more of a targrt for these loons.

That, of course, presupposes that Cho was rational enough to have considered the presence of guns, or lack thereof. My recollection is that he was pretty much completely unhinged, focused only on the destruction he intended and his own demise in the process.

It also presupposes that any student in the line of fire who possessed a gun on campus had not had that gun stolen, or been killed him/herself with that gun (or someone else's) prior to any actions of a maniac.

[illerlytoindy]

Keggers. You know, college kids, alcohol and firearms are such a good mix.

Keggers? I have no recollection of any drunken bashes from my college days!


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