Texas considers allowing guns on campuses

If you are a father of kids going to Texas schools, how would you feel about this new bill? Would you still allow your kids to go to school, out in the open, with no assurance that they will return from school alive?


AUSTIN (Texas) — Mr John Woods was a student at Virginia Tech when the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history took place. Thirty-two people, plus the gunman, died.

There were times he thought that maybe he should get a gun.

“I learnt pretty fast that wouldn’t solve anything,” said Mr Woods, who is now a graduate student at University of Texas.

Today, he has joined a fight against bills in the Texas Legislature that would allow licensed concealed gun carriers to take their weapons to school.

A public hearing was held yesterday in the House of Representatives Public Safety Committee on one bill, sponsored by Republican Joe Driver.

Supporters say the bills would protect the rights of licensed gun owners to carry concealed weapons and help prevent a massacre on the scale of what happened at Virginia Tech. Critics say that if guns are allowed on campus, students and faculty will live in fear, not knowing who might pull a gun over a drunken dorm argument or a poor grade. AP

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Tuesday, 31-March-2009