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Originally Posted by Rebis
I have not been to every college in Texas, but I have been to many and none are the seething underworld of criminals where a gun is needed to protect yourself. and yes my life is in danger from persons with a CHL as I would be in the classroom where they are shooting back. I know several people with a CHL in Texas and none are trained to "defend" an attack on themselves in a public place like a campus. Legally this will be in interesting topic in regards to the responsibility of the person with the CHL should they hit anyone else other than the shooter. The point being guns do not belong on university properties in the hand of civilians, that is what law enforcement is for. The threat of danger is not great enough to justify guns being on campus
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I respect what you're saying, but I've heard that argument from a lot of people that haven't been touched by violent crime.
I gave an example before that concerned me at the time because my girlfriend lived in the immediate area when it happened. See story:
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/121...-smu-rape-case
The police came along after the fact and did their job, which is to catch criminals so the court system can hold them accountable. Sometimes they get lucky and are able to prevent a crime before it happens, but they can't be everywhere.
Not to bring up old wounds, but Virginia Tech has a police dept, so does every other place these things have happened. Reality is law enforcement is incapable of preventing violent crimes, otherwise there wouldn't be any. These happen all the time on college campuses and in college towns. If that's my wife/gf/sister/daughter, or anyone else for that matter, and I'm not there to protect them or have the means to do so, then I either have to make sure they have the means to protect themselves, or I feel like I'm just as guilty as the one shoving them in that car to go have their life destroyed in the worst possible way.
I'm a lot more scared of that then I am the chance of a stray bullet from a CHL holder hitting an innocent bystander.
Oh, and from what I remember, Texas law provides pretty good protections to someone defending themselves. So long as the CHL holder followed the law and their training, the liability would belong to the criminal. Don't quote me on that though, I'm not a lawyer or anything.