apnews.myway.com — Guzman, an economics major at Texas State University-San Marcos, is among 8,000 students nationwide who have joined the nonpartisan Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, arguing that students and faculty already licensed to carry concealed weapons should be allowed to pack heat along with their textbooks.
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mrman42Nov 21, 2007
My Alma Mater! These kids make me proud. There's hope for the next generation. Common sense is alive and well in Texas!
tman84Nov 21, 2007
The sheriff who is obviously for victim disarmament on campus makes me laugh because his name is synonomous with douche.on a serious note, another shill for Victim Disarmament states- "If there's more we need to do, we certainly need to do that, but introducing random access to firearms is not the solution," said Hamm. "You have more victims, not fewer victims."This is absolutely false, Virginia Tech is a pro Victim Disarmament school and 32 people died as a result of it. In 2002 There was a school shooting at Appalachian School of Law in Virginina where 6 students were shot and 2 people killed, further deaths were prevented when students of the school went to their vehicles to retrieve their firearms and defend themselves. The media did not report this story because it proves that Disarming Victims is not the way to go, it only helps to "progress" our nation into a police state
Closed AccountNov 21, 2007
LOLYeah, MORE guns always means LESS killing.You gun nuts crack me up.It's the old 2+2=7 with you guys.
Closed AccountNov 21, 2007
Before you comment on a subject, mightyddavefish, you should educate yourself. Try reading "More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws," by John Lott Jr., an economist who held positions at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton, and Rice and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission. Or, if you don't have a library card, surf the Net. But facts have never been liberals' strong suit. They seem to make important decisions in a total vacuum. However, this isn't a liberal/conservative issue, it's a common sense issue. There are lots of liberal gun owners on the net who hate gun control as much as conservatives do. <a class="user" href="http://guntotingliberal.com/">http://guntotingliberal.com/</a> <a class="user" href="http://www.pinkpistols.org/">http://www.pinkpistols.org/</a>I am a gun-toting journalist. Every workday, I have to travel from my home in Arlington, VA, where anyone who qualifies can carry a gun openly without a permit, and where the number of murders last year was FOUR, to the District of Columbia, which has the strictest gun control in the country and where the number of murders last year was 169! The District has already reached that number in the middle of November this year. At least that was yesterday. I haven't watched the news today. I have to make that trip unarmed because some liberal politician legislated away not only my Constitutional rights, but my human rights. What kind of civil servant fears the people he's supposed to serve? Does that seem to make sense??Every time a government imposes gun control, violent crime shoots up. Every time a government allows honest people to defend themselves, violent crime drops -- EVERY TIME. Does that make sense??The cowards in our society are the criminals. That's why they are criminals. They do not want to get shot any more than they want to take control of their lives and work at an honest job. And when a criminal doesn't know who might be carrying a gun,he is less likely to commit a crime. Thus, the high crime rate in DC and the low crime rate in wild and woolly Virginia. Does that make sense??If it doesn't' make sense, you are operating in an information vacuum.Show me where one gun control law has saved a single life. I can give you hundreds of instances where having a gun at hand has saved lives. You won't get that from the mainstream media. If they covered all the instances when people used a gun to prevent a crime, they'd have to do about 640 stories a day. Instead, they choose to do nearly none. And when I say, "used a gun," I mean it could be something as tame as flashing a holstered gun at a suspicious person. As a journalist, I operate on facts, liberals operate on emotion. Conservatives think, liberals feel. One more thing. Another type of coward is a person who refuses to exercise his HUMAN right to self-defense to protect his family, himself and his possessions from evil-doers. What are you doing when you call 911? You are summoning men with guns to do violence on your behalf. And if your attacker taps his toe and waits for the police to arrive, the officers are willing to lay down their lives to defend you and your family -- because you aren't. And if one of them is killed, well, that's what they get paid for. It isn't your family who are grieving. No sweat off your brow.When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
christianptriotNov 24, 2007
I'll only echo these exacting comments by asking folks this:Of the victim, the criminal and the cop, who always shows up last at a crime scene?? When they do show up at a crime scene that I may be part of, I intend to be the one person left standing to tell my account of what happened, and not the chalk outline in the parking lot.The murder rate for DC, where handguns are currently illegal to own or carry, runs about 57 per 100,000, whereas in Arlington it runs about .17 per 100,000. Your chances of being killed in gun-free DC are about 50 times more likely than in Virginia (where I used to live, and carry).