{"id":11268,"date":"2015-10-08T20:56:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11268"},"modified":"2015-10-08T20:56:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:56:26","slug":"hideous-coincidence-follows-campus-carry-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11268","title":{"rendered":"Hideous coincidence follows campus-carry law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/UT-Tower3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11269\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/UT-Tower3-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"UT-Tower3\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/UT-Tower3-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/UT-Tower3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 1, 2016, Texas is going to mark two important events.<\/p>\n<p>One of them will be when the state law allowing anyone to carry a weapon onto college and university campuses takes effect.<\/p>\n<p>I dislike the new law, although I am not <em>vehemently<\/em> opposed to it. The campus carry law gives me the heebie-jeebies, given the outbreak of violence\u00a0that occurs\u00a0on campuses throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the next event.<\/p>\n<p>Next Aug. 1 marks the 50th year since Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the Texas Tower on the University of Texas-Austin campus and opened fire with his high-powered rifle, killing 16 people before being gunned down by police.<\/p>\n<p>The campus-carry law takes effect on the very same day that Texas will mark what&#8217;s been called commonly as the first such tragic incident of its kind in the nation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/a-very-special-semicentennial\/\">Tower shooting <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Erica Greider, writing a blog for\u00a0Texas Monthly, poses this thought: &#8220;This is just a comically lurid coincidence that led me to ask myself whether the Lege should lose its lawmaking privileges, and probably raises more substantive questions for many of you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Could the Texas Legislature have picked a more ghastly date for this law to take effect? I think not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, one of my sisters recently expressed her dismay over the use of the term &#8220;anniversary&#8221; to remember events such as these. The term, she said, ought to be reserved for occasions that recall joy and happiness.<\/p>\n<p>This date ain&#8217;t an &#8220;anniversary.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 1, 2016, Texas is going to mark two important events. One of them will be when the state law allowing anyone to carry a weapon onto college and university campuses takes effect. I dislike the new law, although I am not vehemently opposed to it. The campus carry law gives me the heebie-jeebies, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hideous coincidence follows campus-carry law<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5537,4653,5536,5068],"class_list":["post-11268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-campus-carry-law","tag-texas-legislature","tag-texas-tower","tag-ut-austin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11270,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11268\/revisions\/11270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}