Texas to vote on allowing students to carry guns on state campuses
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Draft bill has been approved and has plenty of support, so looks likely of being passed into law.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/17/texas-guns-on-campus-bill_n_836992.html
Not sure this is a very good idea.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/17/texas-guns-on-campus-bill_n_836992.html
Not sure this is a very good idea.
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10 years from now
"students to carry sub machine guns of campus"
20 years from now
"students to be allowed to drive around campus in tanks with tactical nuclear devices"
Lets step things down. Not up.
By banning guns from the campus altogether. It levels the playing field.
But does not work. UK's banned most firearms, but how many are still being used?
If they are being used, it'll be illegally.
What the crime stats involving firearms in various developed countries ?
Damn, beaten to it again.
They've seriously got to get out of that mentality of carrying weapons full stop. Besides, most young people should never be allowed guns, or access to them. The legal age to get a gun should be no less than 21.
Young people are emotionally fragile due to lots of factors. Being ignorant (lacking life experience), puberty, how kids/young people treat each other - again, largely down to inexperience or ignorance.
For some, access to a gun can mean this;
http://stuffqueerpeopleneedtoknow.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/bullyied-ohio-teen-commits-suicide/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
The Ohio paper report is there in the links too, at the start of the article.
He's one of many who had done this.
By criminals, who by definition aren't generally too bothered about the law.
Too high. Switzerland's always a good one. Lots of guns, relatively few gun crimes, but lots of gun related suicides.
Much of it is a cultural thing I guess, plus the fear of inanimate objects whipped up by the media. Or the media turning guns into objects of desire rather than tools.
Personally I'm not convinced it's a good idea either, but then in a country which has had many spree killings, there may be more justification to allow self-defence.
Fascinating info here:
http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/crime-prevention/latest-crime-statistics
but gun crime for England & Wales is here:
http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/hosb1210chap3.pdf
page 53, which came from:
http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimeew0910.html
Parts of Utah have already allowed this.
Another reason why I'm glad I don't live in Utah.
I'll give you another.
It's the head quarters of the Mormon church
Sometimes the words Texans and Sanity should not be used in the same sentence. :rolleyes:
If this is allowed, I, for one, would feel a tad anxious visiting a Texan University. Safe in the knowledge that some spotty testosterone charged students are wandering around campus around between double geography and their PE lecture with guns in their pockets.
Can you imagine Jeremy Paxman hosting University Challenge and introducing the teams ?
"Let's meet Queens College, London"
"Hi, I'm Ben Stevens reading Philosophy and firearms"
"Hi, I'm Jenny Woods reading French and firearms"
... and their team captain...
"Hi, I'm Tim Philpot reading Politics and firearms"
"Your starter for ten. Fingers on the buzzers. No, not the trigger !!!"
I'd be reluctant to visit Texas full stop or any US state that carried out executions.
Banning guns from campus only works if the criminals agree to play along.
As has been seen all over the world banning the personal use of firearms stops only law abiding people from doing so; the criminals carry on regardless.
Why?
Are you planning on committing a crime for which those states impose the death penalty?
No?
Then you have nothing to fear.
You could find yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Quite by accident. And suddenly, for no rhyme or reason, find the long arm of the law tapping you on the shoulder.
The criminal justice system is run by humans. Like all humans, we all make mistakes. No system is fool proof.
:rolleyes:
Are you planning on committing murder while you're here?
Many laws prevent something: drugs, alcohol, under age smoking, guns here in the UK.
What sets this apart is that it permits something.