John Kelso on Campus Carry

[The Mad Moderate]

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I'm gonna try and pick this apart piece by piece

Why? Quite simply, there are way too many instances in college where people might lose control of their tempers.

Since when is college the only place people "lose their tempers". This is the same blood in the streets argument from when CHL started and was proven false.

Or finding a parking place. Did you ever go looking for a parking place on campus at the University of Texas and NOT end up wanting to strangle someone? That guy in the Kia who stole your spot in Lot D? He had it coming.

Same exact argument from 1994 "people will get killed over a parking space'. It was crazy then, it's crazy now.

College is dangerous enough as it is. And college life would be changed if guns were allowed all over the place.

As opposed to the gun brought on campus but the nut-job who didn't get enough attention so he shows up with an AK. "laws that disarm, disarm only those neither determined nor inclined to commit a crime"

I'd be a lot less likely to stick my finger out a car window on the Drag and holler, "We're No. 1," if I thought the guy in the pickup next to me had a Glock.

Shouldn't do that anyways, there is nothing stopping someone from legally carrying on the Drag, just because it cuts through campus does not make it off limits, so Mr. Kelso may want to be careful with his finger if he is so worried.

It's not that I have anything against guns. Guns have their place. It's just that I'm against guns in the wrong places. The way I see it, the right place on campus for a gun is in the cop's holster.

Which they will have safely outside the parameter they set up when there is an active shooter on campus. As was proven the last time it happened.

And how is opening UT to pistol-packin' going to help in recruiting the best and the brightest at UT? Sure, some families with NRA stickers on their garage doors will think it's a good thing. But you know there are lot of mothers out there who will persuade Junior to go off to, say, Harvard, rather than "that gun nut school."

That's the reputation UT would get, if guns were allowed on campus.

Where does the Statesman find these people?

[tacticool]

And how is opening UT to pistol-packin' going to help in recruiting the best and the brightest at UT? Sure, some families with NRA stickers on their garage doors will think it's a good thing. But you know there are lot of mothers out there who will persuade Junior to go off to, say, Harvard, rather than "that gun nut school."

Right. Because parents aren't doing that now, assuming Junior has the grades and SAT scores (or the right family) to get into an Ivy League school instead of a state school.

So, we can assume they weren't admitted to Harvard or Yale, or even Rice. So the choice is not between UT and Ivy League, but between a Texas state school and a Yankee state school. Any students who would would go to a NY state school instead of a Texas state school, if Texas schools finally respected the civil rights of both the NAACP and NRA demographics, well, Texas is better off without those ignorant bigots.

Where does the Statesman find these people?

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[MoJo]

Where does the Statesman find these people?

Under the Congress Ave bridge on Town Lake with all the bats?

Kelso is a Yankee transplant that came to Austin back in "The Day." They may have found him selling flowers on a street corner or at Armadillo World Headquarters. He's always been a NASCAR style columnist - - - go fast and free with the facts and turn left!!!

[74novaman]

Or finding a parking place. Did you ever go looking for a parking place on campus at the University of Texas and NOT end up wanting to strangle someone? That guy in the Kia who stole your spot in Lot D? He had it coming.

I honestly am starting to believe this is why most of the truly rabid anti gun people are the way they are. Given the opportunity, they WOULD murder someone over a parking spot. If I was that mentally unstable and believed the rest of the world to be so as well, I'd be rabidly anti gun as well.

Some examples of anti gun nut violence:
http://www.saysuncle.com/2009/06/04/why ... iolent-12/
http://www.saysuncle.com/2011/05/03/why ... iolent-35/
http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/12/30/why ... iolent-10/
http://www.saysuncle.com/2011/05/31/why ... iolent-36/
http://daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com/2 ... ts-so.html
http://elmtreeforge.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... ts-so.html