Texas students can soon bring guns to dorm room. Here’s what they can’t bring

[TexasTowelie]

Texas public colleges will allow firearms on campus next year, but as long as nothing changes in student handbooks, water and Nerf guns will remain banned.

Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill permitting concealed carry at public universities this summer. The controversial law will go into effect Aug. 1, the 50th anniversary of the Charles Whitman shooting at the University of Texas at Austin that killed 16 people. It also passed during a year where more than 20 shootings have taken place on college campuses, including one in Oregon last month that killed nine.

Students will need a concealed carry permit and to be 21 years or older. Across the U.S., eight states have laws that allow firearms on campus. Only 19 states have outright bans, while the rest let colleges devise their own policies.

Student handbooks at Texas public schools show an interesting juxtaposition between the items that will stay banned from dorm rooms while guns will be legal. See the items that colleges specifically an in the gallery. The majority of the prohibited objects are considered fire hazards.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Texas-students-can-soon-bring-guns-to-dorm-room-6572147.php

[randys1]

1. AT some point one hopes all the gun "culture" people will "culture" themselves out of

the conversation.

Maybe they could leave the country and form their own "wild west" type place.

IDK, but I just wish they would go the fuck away.

[nykym]

3. I hear SOmalia

is nice this time of year!

[LiberalArkie]

2. Maybe house all the gun carriers in one dorm with a free beer dispenser. And so how many win Darwin

awards. Let nature take its course

[KansDem]

4. "...the 50th anniversary of the Charles Whitman shooting "

Remember "The Tower?"

Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966) was an American engineering student at the University of Texas, former U.S. Marine, and a mass murderer who killed 16 people.

In the early morning hours of August 1, 1966, Whitman murdered his wife and mother in their homes. Later that day, he brought a number of guns, including rifles, a shotgun, and handguns, to the campus of the University of Texas at Austin where, over an approximate 90 to 95 minute period, he killed 14 people and wounded 32 others in a mass shooting in and around the Tower. Whitman shot and killed three people inside the university's tower and eleven others after firing at random from the 28th-floor observation deck of the Main Building. Whitman was shot and killed by Austin police officer Houston McCoy.[1][2][3][4] Just prior to Whitman’s clock tower massacre, Richard Speck, labeled America's “first mass murderer,” killed eight student nurses in July 1966. The killings are characterized as a new type of violence.[5]

Wikipedia: Charles Whitman

[MisterP]

9. "Whitman wrote that he requested an autopsy be conducted upon his body, to determine if there was a

biological reason for his actions and increasing headaches"

even *Whitman* wanted to know the cause of his impending massacre: the bastard could never have guessed his own victim state would carefully go out of its way to make them more possible

[shenmue]

25. I believe he had a brain tumor

[Deacon Blue]

24. A University of the First Class...

As required by the state constitution. "Texas No. 1! Texas No. 1!"

Just so you don't think I'm being insensitive, that's a reference to Kinky Freidman's "The Ballad of Charles Joseph Whitman."

Me? UT School of Bidness '85. Hook 'em! ,\m/!

[lostnfound]

5. I'm so glad I'm not college age

Drunken frat boys were scary enough on campus even when they were unarmed.

[trusty elf]

6. What about popcorn poppers?

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[bluestateguy]

7. In Utah guns are allowed on campus

but you can be busted by the campus discipline system for looking at porn on your computer.

[Arugula Latte]

17. Wow. The twisted violent sickness of the USA, summed up right there.

[erronis]

8. No water pistols (can't pull a Carson defensive movement with them.) But paint guns?

They should be allowed since the effect of spattering walls is the same as a nice semi-auto.

[FairWinds]

10. Somewhere around 30% of college students . .

experience symptoms of depression during their four
undergraduate years . .

Mix that with guns . .

What could possibly go wrong?

Veterans For Peace

[jtuck004]

11. Isn't it crime to put your kid in danger? First shooting should be accompanied by a massive

investigation whether parents who send their kids into a gun-infested environment should lose parental rights.

[Turbineguy]

12. Well, yes

but everybody knows that more guns reduce shootings. That is to say, a person with a gun cannot shoot another person (2nd Amendment Physics). And people who do not buy a lottery ticket have a better chance of winning than those that do.

[4lbs]

13. Gotta protect poor unsuspecting students from being sprayed with water guns or doinked

by a Nerf gun.


That's what the real guns are there for!

[niyad]

14. this is from the Onion, yes??? PLEASE tell me that this is really from the Onion.

[underpants]

15. "I would say, 'Hey, guys, grab your Nerf guns. He may shoot me, but he can’t get us all.'"

[Arugula Latte]

16. Fucking lunatics. nt

[cvoogt]

18. finally

what was really missing from campuses? I mean, there's alcohol, depression, sleep loss, and young people all together. Ah yes, guns, that's what was missing from that mix. With those in the picture everyone will be much safer.

And of course, teachers needed some encouragement to embark on this rewarding profession. What could be more rewarding that the constant threat of violence and the universal sense of impending doom that accompanies knowing you should not offend even one of your students in the slightest way, because what if they happen to decide they don't like you, and haven't for some time, so .. bang!

I find the attitudes that allow such concealed carry in schools to be incredibly disrespectful and dismissive of teachers. Teachers get undervalued as it is, and this just amplifies that.

When it comes to guns, the needs of the few consistently outweigh the lives of the many. We live in a twisted country.

[rladdi]

19. The State of Texas is so unique. It has no zoning laws, chemical companies can build within a

housing development. One school, just closed, was surrounded a massive number of oil storage tanks. It does not inspect or regulate businesses so they are free to do whatever they want. Do you remember on town couple years ago blew up? No state inspections and no regulations on that chemical plant.

Texas is having a record number of earth quakes due to fracking. Over 700 the latest number.

It is a state on the path of destruction like their politics is and they rule.

But the people like it that way. No healthcare or medicare extension, so Texas taxpayers are paying billions in medical costs to those not insured. Healthcare for all the people would say taxpayers lots of money, but I don't think they understand economics or business.


But Texas is the first to call for Federal assistance if they have any type of disaster.

Sometime in the future, once the citizens of TX are educated, they will wake up and kick the Republicans and Conservatives into the Gulf.

[NonMetro]

20. It's An Experiment To See If Anyone Gets Killed.

Send your kid to UT to be a part of it!

[joshdawg]

21. If a bill came to abbott's desk mandating that every

resident of Texas should have a firearm, he would sign it in a heartbeat.
For some irrational excuse, abbott loves him some guns.

[PatrynXX]

22. well yes no need to be shooting anything unnecessarily

cause now someone might shoot back with ammo

[DhhD]

23. New shoot out corral in Texas? We must understand the state and its laws/outlaws.

http://news.discovery.com/human/what-happened-at-the-ok-corral-121026.htm

snip
The Gunfight at the OK Corral is arguably the single most famous incident in the Old West. But what was it about? And why has it, above all the many other gunfights that took place in the era of frontier justice, achieved such infamy?

To understand the gunfight, you have to first understand the town. Tombstone in 1881 was a thriving, bustling silver mining community.
more at link


Will we see someone being shot because a person had his/her hand in their pocket and it was believed that they had a gun? That is Abbott's style of self protection; shoot first then ask questions. Wonder where he carries his gun?

[rpannier]

26. My 2nd Amendment Right to Bear and Keep Nerf Guns is being infringed upon

I'm suing
It's a gun.
Ergo, it's protected.
There's nothing in the 2nd Amendment that says only bullet firing guns

[PumpkinAle]

27. In some perverse way it sorta makes

sense. You have all these gung-ho students ready to shoot and there is someone with a Nerf gun - split second decision, is that a student with a Nerf gun, no it has to be an alien species with a gun from the future - must destroy.

[John Poet]

28. When Nerf guns are oulawed,

only outlaws will have Nerf guns.