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State Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, today made it clear that he opposes the notion of allowing anyone to carry weapons on college campuses in Texas.<\/p>\n

More to the point, as I heard his talk today to the Rotary Club of Amarillo, he said that allowing guns into college classrooms is a particularly<\/em> bad idea.<\/p>\n

He noted a key foe of the idea of allowing such activity. That would be the chancellor of the University of Texas System. You’ve heard of him, perhaps. Former Navy Admiral William McRaven once led the nation’s special forces command. He is a Navy SEAL who, according to Seliger, “knows more about guns than just about anyone.”<\/p>\n

McRaven thinks allowing guns on campus is a bad idea.<\/p>\n

Seliger then presented a fascinating scenario to buttress the point about how bad an idea it is to let someone carry a gun openly into a university classroom.<\/p>\n

Suppose a professor gives a student a bad grade, he said. Suppose, then, that the grade enrages the student so much that he wants to harm the professor.<\/p>\n

I think you get the point.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to oppose openly the idea of allowing Texans to carry guns in plain sight. The concealed carry law, enacted in 1995, hasn’t produced gunfights at traffic intersections, as some of us — yours truly included — had feared would happen.<\/p>\n

But there ought to be some places where we ought to restrict the open display of these weapons.<\/p>\n

Houses of worship are among those places.<\/p>\n

So are college classrooms.<\/p>\n

And none of that endangers the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n

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