Texas Expands Right to Carry Guns on College Campuses

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  1. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    It's not for everyone but for those who choose to do so we have the right. Most people choose not too. Not that there's anything wrong with it.
     
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  2. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    There is something wrong with it. I don't know you. How do I know you aren't a criminal? I'm sorry like it or not, you pack a gun in public, you're a poonachie. Plain and simple.
     
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  3. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    I don't know what a poonachie is but I'm a poonhound
     
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  4. Jmg

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    My parents lock their door, even though they live in a neighborhood that is basically 100 percent crime free. Are they lunatics or cowards?
     
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    I would never carry a gun because it's not my thing, but generally the sort of people you are arguing against are the sort of people that are not really a risk to you. They are probably a risk to themselves, but that isn't your problem.
     
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  6. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    You just made my point. Pick up any paper and you will find people doing stupid shit every day. You Have to search Google to find any heroes.
     
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Crazy people don't care. They expect to die doing this. I understand what you are suggesting, but I think the lives saved in the few unlikely instances of someone actually being in the right place at the right time to do anything are exceeding small versus the lives lost by introducing guns to churches and schools that don't want them and don't need them. Untrained people with Die Hard fantasies will start banging away at the wrong people or without thinking about stray bullets. Like the woman who saw a suspected thief run out of Wal-Mart and emptied her gun onto his car. There will be more suicides. There will be a lot of accidental discharges.
     
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  8. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    You asked for links. The point is that most of the shootings occur in seedy areas over drugs. Most of those involved have criminal records and can't legally possess firearms. But they have them anyway.
     
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Neither. Locking a door is simply caution. If they sleep with a loaded gun under their pillows, they are paranoid.
     
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Even a policeman with a gun is a potential risk to you. Joe Average with a gun is a worse risk.
     
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