Professor at Taft College Pens Op-Ed Supporting Campus Carry
Harold Pease, Ph.D., who has taught history and political science for more than 25 years at Taft College, writes about the need for campus carry.
Harold Pease, Ph.D., who has taught history and political science for more than 25 years at Taft College, writes about the need for campus carry.
Madison Welch, a student at Texas A&M University, questions Texas Senator Steve Ogden’s motivation for opposing Senate Bill 354 (campus carry).
Texas public colleges are no more deserving of the right to independently prohibit concealed carry than are municipal governments or state agencies.
These two news articles and four op-eds about campus carry appeared in various U.S. newspapers between March 7 and March 21 of 2011.
The San Antonio-Express News runs an op-ed supporting concealed carry on Texas college campuses but strips the piece to the bare, unpolished bones.
Robert J. Spitzer, political science professor at SUNY Cortland, takes sadistic pride in rebutting a campus carry argument SCCC never actually made.
Campus carry opponents twist proponents’ claims and attack statistics showing that license holders are more law-abiding than the general population.
One opponent of concealed carry seems to suggest that America’s long history of mass shootings proves that armed citizens can’t stop massacres.
Opponents of campus carry point to the January 8, 2011, Tucson, Arizona, shooting spree as evidence that concealed carry on campus is a bad idea.
Virginia Tech survivor Colin Goddard offers alternatives for making colleges safer, not realizing that campus carry is compatible with his proposals.