Texas set to allow guns on college campuses

[WoodPeckr]

don't worry. they still aren't allowed to run with scissors.

That's the strange way Texans show their concern for student safety.....

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

I think the combination of young people, alcohol and maybe even drugs has the potential for bad outcomes

Its already had a bunch of bad outcomes:

http://static.thehollywoodgossip.com/images/gallery/jared-lee-loughner-mug-shot_385x341.jpg

http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/nwzchik/2007/04/18/Virginia_Tech_Shooting_NY136498x378.JPG

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cuGv3IjzSk8/TEcD1D7t_qI/AAAAAAAAB-Y/ZnTUcjl3RU4/s1600/columbine.jpg

 

[WoodPeckr]

....who wants to go to school with a loaded weapon? ( people who want to kill other people and people who are paranoid of being shot and killed by the people who want kill people....and the merry go round keeps spinning)

Our loony-tune friend from the right americanson is very comfortable with that logic.....

 

[Yooser]

What's the difference between this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBtws_WJGfc

and a Frat party ??????
Fisticufs and pool cues not cool anymore ?

 

[papasmerf]

Yeah right!
Soon the new NRA slogan will be:

Sleep safe and sound with an Uzi under your pillow!....

I was thinking ................A WOODPECKER IN EVERY POT.

 

[Yooser]

What age is Texas proposing as the new minimum ? 18 ? 17 ?
Or is it still 21 ? Then some students will be packing, while others can"t. Does that sound fair ?
Could be a new business opportunity. (for X bucks a week be your bodyguard)

 

[WoodPeckr]

What age is Texas proposing as the new minimum ?

With that Texan cowboy 'shoot em up' mentality, along with the blessing of the NRA, the minimun age will most likely be 15.....

 

[WoodPeckr]

"An Armed Society Is A Polite Society."

Yepper, we see how well that has been playing out the last few years in the ME and Mexico....

 

[fuji]

Two words Pecker: Bernie Goetz.

Hey look, out of all the hundreds of thousands of people killed by guns, you managed to scrape up one example of a guy doing what you claimed. Unfortunately you will always have to resort to these anecdotal types of evidence because if we were to look at the statistics I bet we'll find that most of the people who were shot and killed were shot and killed by crooks.

 

[lovelatinas]

Only in the heart of gunland America...TEXAS.

 

[FOOTSNIFFER]

Only in the heart of gunland America...TEXAS.

Texas...aka redneck heaven-on-earth.

That place was the creepiest state I've ever been to, with the exception of San Antonio.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Yepper, we see how well that has been playing out the last few years in the ME and Mexico....

This post shows your stupidity again, Pecker. Mexico has very strict gun control (only criminals own guns):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Mexico

And most ME countries (except for Israel) dont allow its citizens to have any guns, let alone a permit for guns. Ever wonder why this month's revolution in Egypt was relatively peaceful??!! Not because they didnt wanna use guns, but because they didnt have any guns

 

[oasis77]

Wow! I'd hate to be the prof. who fails a student! 100% passing rate then, eh?

 

[WoodPeckr]

So true!
What Prof will give go an F if he sees your packing a glock!.....

 

[oldjones]

let it happen, i wanna see if there really will be gun violence or not...it would be a good social experiment..."Does an armed society make for a safe one?"..only time will tell

Hasn't the US, as the most conspicuous 'armed society' already experimented and conclusively demonstrated with its high crime and violence rates how lunatic that concept is? Check out post 41 above for some of the insanity: 'Egypt's sucessful and largely non-violent revolution would have been better with guns'.

The idea that you 'cure' violence by violence is as clear a demonstration that the definition of insanity is to continue an action whose outcome has been shown, expecting that this time it will be different as one could ever imagine. I belive we used to call it MAD back in the days of the Cold War arms race. Fortunately the Russians wised up.

We're still waiting for their former dance-partner to do the same.

 

[dman44]

Leave it to America to decide drunken college students should walk around packing concealed firearms. What happens when the cops show up to break up a party and 100 college kids decide that they aren't done. In my opinion they would have been better off makin bullet proof vests included in there tuition fees.

 

[Old Milwaukee]

Time has spoken, that's why the murder rate in the US is roughly 10 times that of Canada. That's per capita, by the way, so don't tell me they have 10 times as may people.

 

[Old Milwaukee]

Hasn't the US, as the most conspicuous 'armed society' already experimented and conclusively demonstrated with its high crime and violence rates how lunatic that concept is? Check out post 41 above for some of the insanity: 'Egypt's sucessful and largely non-violent revolution would have been better with guns'.

The idea that you 'cure' violence by violence is as clear a demonstration that the definition of insanity is to continue an action whose outcome has been shown, expecting that this time it will be different as one could ever imagine. I belive we used to call it MAD back in the days of the Cold War arms race. Fortunately the Russians wised up.

We're still waiting for their former dance-partner to do the same.

Well said.