The news from Texas has gun control advocates upset and nervously chewing their fingernails. The Dallas Morning News reported the grave news that adults under 21 years old have started securing training for carry licenses so they can carry on university campuses. Let the pearl clutching commence.
Campus carry has long proven a contentious subject, especially for those who recoil at the idea of good guys carrying guns in public for their own self-defense. Opponents of allowing students and staffers on college campuses the right to keep and bear arms often make wild claims about blood and lecture hall shootouts…none of which ever come to pass
However, those dire predictions scare those who don’t know any better. But Texans aren’t afraid.
From the Dallas Morning News . . .
A new kind of student is showing up in handgun instructor Michael Cargill’s classroom: teenagers.
Earlier this month, Cargill said two 19-year-old college students sat before him, pens in hand, ready to get their licenses to carry.
Until recently, most Texans had to wait until their 21st birthday to apply.
But a federal judge toppled the state’s age restrictions, and now thousands of young adults are eligible for licenses that will let them carry concealed handguns on public university campuses, into certain businesses and across state lines…
The change marks a major shift in Texas gun policy…
The change has sweeping implications. Now, a far larger swath of students are eligible for so-called campus carry, a contentious policy enacted in 2016 that allows license-holders to have concealed handguns at public universities.
There you go. With a license to carry, students aged 18 to 20 will be able to carry concealed arms at public universities in Texas.
That news likely has people like David Hogg, Shannon Watts and their ilk piddling their undergarments at the thought of a good guy (or gal) possibly stopping a bad person with evil in their hearts.