{"id":8019,"date":"2015-01-27T03:24:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T03:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8019"},"modified":"2015-01-27T03:24:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T03:24:09","slug":"campus-carry-gun-bills-are-reloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8019","title":{"rendered":"Campus-carry gun bills are reloaded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Yeah, that’s the ticket.<\/p>\n

College and university campuses have been victimized for decades by gun violence, so what do some Texas legislators want to do? They want to allow folks to pack heat onto those campuses.<\/p>\n

That’s the way to solve the issue of gun violence. Bring in more guns.<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/blog.mysanantonio.com\/texas-politics\/2015\/01\/texas-lawmakers-reload-campus-carry-bills\/<\/p>\n

Texas Senate Bill 11 has 19 co-sponsors, which under the new rules of the Senate makes it eligible for vote in the full Senate. SB 11 won’t allow guns into campus hospitals, nor will it allow guns\u00a0in elementary schools. I guess that’s a small victory for common sense.<\/p>\n

When I read a blog posted by the Houston Chronicle about the bill’s status with the University of Texas System, well, I got a bit confused. The blog states: “Similar legislation has been proposed in previous years but failed after heavy opposition, especially from campus leaders. University of Texas Chancellor William McRaven recently came out\u00a0against the effort.”<\/p>\n

I can’t tell by reading this post whether McRaven — a\u00a0retired Navy admiral and one-time SEAL — opposes the legislation or opposes the effort to derail it.<\/p>\n

Whatever the case, the notion of allowing more guns onto higher education campuses makes this<\/em> Texan — that would be me — quite nervous.<\/p>\n

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Yeah, that’s the ticket. College and university campuses have been victimized for decades by gun violence, so what do some Texas legislators want to do? They want to allow folks to pack heat onto those campuses. That’s the way to solve the issue of gun violence. Bring in more guns. http:\/\/blog.mysanantonio.com\/texas-politics\/2015\/01\/texas-lawmakers-reload-campus-carry-bills\/ Texas Senate Bill 11 … Continue reading Campus-carry gun bills are reloaded<\/span> →<\/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":[2037,2040,4653,4701,4702,5021,5067,5263],"class_list":["post-8019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-guns-on-campus","tag-texas-legislature","tag-texas-senate","tag-texas-senate-bill","tag-university-campuses","tag-ut-system","tag-william-mcraven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019","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=8019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}