Texas Expands Right to Carry Guns on College Campuses

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  1. LSUTiga

    LSUTiga TF Pubic Relations

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    I'm too young for that place, it's where my parents met though. Seriously.

    Have taken some ass whippins but never from a redbone. Knocked two Messicans clean out in two separate incidents though. Couple of white guys along the way, too. Had my skull fractured and plenty of blackeyes as well. Fought an awful lot back in the day but it's been a long time since I've put up my dukes. Much wiser and avoid those situations now. Too old and it would hurt ...even if I won.

    As far as drawing, I don't think I could draw on a mudda phucka unless I saw a gun in in their hand. Short of that I'd have a hard time justifying it in my mind. Well maybe if they were approaching me with a crowbar. Now if they're in my house in the middle of the night, that's another issue. Even still, ever think about how much it would ruin your home each time you walked by the spot that you put a body down?
     
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    I have never had a beating, but I am not scared of one. In the few last years I went to the worlds most violent places, San Pedro sula, Honduras (world murder capital), an awful al shebaab controlled neighborhood called little Mogadishu in Nairobi, port au prince Haiti, st Petersburg Russia, and various other awful places in Mexico City and Caracas and Vietnam and the Middle East, etc.

    In none of these places would I have felt safer with a gun. I can run fast and I know how to walk like I look like I know where I am going.

    The one time a mugger tried me I was maybe 15 yards from my door in New York. He was unarmed. If he had been armed I would not have felt any better about thing had I been armed as well. I ain't trying to get into a shootout. guns are bad news.
     
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    I know and agree.
     
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    Careful where you get your information; -- and calculate the ratio of licensed gun carriers doing good vs bad. I think most objective people would expect much more good.

    I believe in both, law and order and the rights of people to protect themselves.
     
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    Which is exactly the point...it's illegal yet people are being murdered, perps don't care if it's legal or not. The only people enabled by this law are the people who are law abiding, and those people don't go around shooting innocent people
     
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    I pronounce you Alphonse Above-Average.
     
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    I am not as worried about them doing "bad", as I am about them taking action on misperceptions, shooting innocent bystanders, having accidental discharges, or having their gun taken away and used against them. You know as well as I do that many concealed carriers are not really competent to use their weapons. Even cops get their guns taken away sometimes. There is an old man I see at my local drug store, he must be 85 and carries a small oxygen bottle on a sling as he shuffles around the store. He wears a .45 openly on his belt and I bet it makes the old duffer feel safer. But if anybody wanted to, they could disarm him in a heartbeat and have his gun.

    So do I and I am a gun carrier. But not in schools and churches where they are not wanted and not needed. I am also armed with reason. I carry when I'm walking my timberland alone, driving on the highway late at night, or going to dangerous places, like the warehouse district where I have a storage unit.

    But I don't carry one to work or into schools and everywhere I go in hope that a lunatic walks in and I can shoot him before he shots me. I suspect that you have a better chance of getting hit by a meteor than witnessing a mass school shooting. Serious studies have been made simulating various such situations and it is unusual for a teacher or bystander to get an opportunity to take down an armed terrorist before getting shot himself.

    So its a matter of probabilities for me. I am unlikely to ever be in a situation where I can stop a mass killing, so there is little point in being armed 24/7. I am just endangering innocents myself if I carried one in safe places that already have security. In situations where I have a far higher likelihood of trouble, I carry.
     
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