There’s more news on the gun front.
In their infinite wisdom the Texas state legislature and governor have just passed and signed a law making it legal for students to carry guns on college campuses.
A large number of faculty at the University of Texas main campus in Austin have signed a petition demanding the University forbid guns in the classroom, but what do they know?
What could go wrong with students packing heat while participating in the kind of classroom discussion and debate that allows for any and all views to be expressed?
Last year 74% of nearly four hundred law enforcement agencies across the country listed domestic anti-government extremism as the number one terrorist threat our nation faces.
I know it’s purely hypothetical, but what if there are anti-government extremists living in Texas, and some of them should send their sons or daughters to state universities?
And what if, again speaking hypothetically, some of those kids choose to have a gun with them when they arrive on campus.
Just the kind of roommate you would want for your son or daughter, right?
What if a gun toting student happens to be in a political science class discussing current events and a classmate starts talking like a socialist liberal and says something that gun toting student finds personally offensive.
Again, what could possibly go wrong in a situation like that?
Or maybe the fact that he has that gun in the first place means the professor considers the situation potentially too volatile to allow such a discussion take place.
How’s that for an educational environment?
Honestly, I believe the NRA and the Texas politicians in its pocket have gone over the cliff and want to take the rest of us with them.
From their perspective, it’s all about good guys taking out bad guys in a shootout, you know, like the gun fight at the O.K Corral back in the day.
After all, everybody knows that in shootouts only bad guys get killed.
I think I might hate Texas almost as much as I hate the NRA.
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