Campus-carry gun laws won't make colleges safer - USATODAY
Professionals who know weapons best say it's a bad idea.
Retired admiral William McRaven is no stranger to weapons nor enemy of the Second Amendment. In fact, McRaven was the U.S. special operations commander who directed the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Today, he's the chancellor of the nine-school University of Texas System — and a strong opponent of letting college students carry concealed handguns on public university campuses.
"The presence of concealed weapons will make a campus a less safe environment," McRaven wrote to the Texas Legislature. Besides accidents and suicides, McRaven said, he's worried that the system will have a harder time recruiting people from outside the state put off by the proliferation of guns on campus.
And did the legislature listen to this voice of experience and reason? Of course not. Prodded by the gun lobby, legislators passed a campus-carry bill last month. Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign it any day now. Texas would became the ninth state to allow concealed weapons on public post-secondary campuses, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. (Arkansas allows only faculty to carry.)
Beginning in August 2016, students at least 21 with Texas concealed-carry permits will be able to bring their handguns with them into campus buildings. The bill doesn't cover private colleges, and public college administrators can keep some, though not all, parts of campus off-limits to firearms.
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