Did you know that today, Campus-Carry Law goes into effect in Texas at public universities?

Those Texans sure love them shootin' irons!

Re GUNS ON CAMPUS:

Do you remember Ted Bundy?  He would kill women by disguising himself as a person with a broken leg, drop his books in front of a hapless co-ed and she would pick them up for him.  She would walk him to his Volkswagon and when she would bend into the car to put the books on the seat for him, he would hit her over the head with a crutch.  She's unconscious, he drags her into the car and does his thing.

Tell me how a gun would have saved her?  ON CAMPUS?

  Tell me how a gun ever SAVES anyone ON CAMPUS where drinking and drugging abound?  This is just a nightmare waiting to happen big time.

Get ready for this theme TEXAS-STYLE:

'Oh officer, I don't remember how it happened.  I remember I had a gun and I was drunk and it must have went off when I passed out and Joe QBack picked it out of my holster and started shooting up the place.  It's all so blurry, I just cannot remember.'

? and tell me how many people get killed because there was a gun somewhere on a person who has no reason to have one on them?

What IS this world coming to?

I think a adult should be allowed to defend themselves even on a college campus.

*AN adult would be allowed to defend HIMSELF. Singular goes with singular, and don't try to play it off as a typo.

The only grammar transgression was the use of "a" in front of "adult" which could well be a typo.

The use of "themselves" as a reflective pronoun in the sentence is quite correct, albeit somewhat awkward. In the case of the sentence the object is understood to be the group of all adults, which could be male, female or a mixed group.

Even if the object is specifically a single adult "himself" would still be incorrect due to "adult" being gender neutral. Hence no gender agreement between the reflexive pronoun and its object. In that case the correct word would be "themself", again a bit awkward.

Get a Hodges Harbrace if you want to play that game.

The shooting 50 years ago was a guy with a sniper rifle shooting from a tower. How would a little 9mm handgun defend against that?

I think it scary, and very dangerous.

What shooting at the University of Houston ???

I did know that. People so readily identify Texas as a big gun state that I was shocked to find that's not really the case when I moved here. Open carry wasn't a thing until recently and we rank 16th in the nation for firearms per 1000.

I think concealed carry is great policy.

Maybe Houston can break Chicago's record of 90 killed in one month ?

WHAT SHOOTING ???

Which college campus is that that you've posted pictures of? None of the colleges I've been at lately here on the east coast have had those kinds of displays.

It was the University of Texas at Austin, not the University of Huston.

Can't you get ANY facts right? Or are you intentionally trying to disseminate mis-information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman

Quite well, actually.

Two Austin police officers ended that shooting spree with their service sidearms which were most certainly revolvers chambered for 38-Special. That's a cartridge that is ballistically very similar to the 9-mm Parabellum.

I don't know where the upper picture was taken, but the lower one is Michigan State.

Really?

And what was the occasion that prompted this "peaceful assembly for redress of grievances"?

This one, I think . . . but she got the school wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman

I think that was when they lost to Duke in the NCAA Final Four, but it could have been another occasion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_State_University_student_riots

People tend to make assumptions.  I have seen many refer to Michigan's "restrictive" gun laws...yet Michigan is a "shall issue" CPL state and has always been an open carry (both long and hand guns) state.  

I'm a U of M fan myself...

Shooting at university of houston 1966

Salt and Red Pepper, you said "Two Austin police officers ended that shooting spree with their service sidearms which were most certainly revolvers chambered for 38-Special." Not so. Whitman died of multiple shotgun wounds, and all of the shots which hit him were fired within the tower, which was the point I was making. A 9mm hand-gun on the ground is no protection against a sniper in a tower. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman Note the part which says "Officers were equipped with revolvers and shotguns, which were ineffective against a sniper; some went home to get their own rifles."

I was definitely guilty of buying into it. Granted, I moved here in 2010 and was still discovering my own mind. I know you'll understand that. Lol

That also wasn't why I moved here, but I was certainly shocked when I discovered it. Something else that blew me away is the energy sector. We actually have various utilitiy companies to choose from in each district, with the exception of water, that's provided by the city. We choose electricity plans much like cellphone plans used to be. Love that.