TCU Opts Out of Texas Campus Carry Law

November 14, 2015

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Via the DMN: TCU votes to opt out of campus carry

Public colleges and universities have drawn most of the attention in the campus carry debate, since they can’t, under the law, totally opt out. And discussions remain ongoing at those campuses over what kind of gun-free zones might be established.

But private schools retained the power to ban guns on campus, since lawmakers said they didn’t want to interfere with private property rights. Those schools just have to get campus input first, which TCU did in recent weeks through forums and surveys.

4 responses to “TCU Opts Out of Texas Campus Carry Law”

M. Bouffant

November 14, 2015 at 10:50 pm

lawmakers said they didn’t want to interfere with private property rights

Nope, neither ideologues nor hypocrites, these Texas lawmakers.
OzarkHillbilly

November 15, 2015 at 10:20 am

From the close of the article at the DMN: “I feel comfortable with anybody that’s on campus with a gun,” TCU freshman David Laughlin said at a forum last month, according to The Texas Tribune. “I don’t think anybody would be a threat.”

All you have to do is open any newspaper on any day of the week to be confronted with yet another story of somebody who had no business walking around with a gun, walking around with a gun. I guess they don’t have newspapers or the internet in Texas. Either that or their admission standards are so low a 3 year old can get in.
Jenos Idanian

November 15, 2015 at 8:19 pm

The law gave the campuses a choice. This school made its choice. That’s their right.
al-Ameda

November 16, 2015 at 11:01 am

thanks to OzarkHillbilly: From the 1st Link:

“I feel comfortable with anybody that’s on campus with a gun,” TCU freshman David Laughlin said at a forum last month, according to The Texas Tribune. “I don’t think anybody would be a threat.”

Exactly, what could possibly go wrong on a university campus wherein hundreds, perhaps thousands, of immature hormonal male students are carrying guns? (la la la la la la la)