True fact: some of the first Texans were from Tennessee.
Looks like my daughter will be going to her backup school.
Tennessee is, unremarkably, short on good universities. But Vanberbilt should now be struck off anyone’s list. I certainly wouldn’t let anyone I cared about attend a school where the undergrads might be packing heat. Great combo: 18-year-olds, away from home for the first time, drunk, and armed.
Kids recently out of high school, on their own for the first time, just getting into legally drinking, unsupervised parties, add guns…what could go wrong?
Exactly.
in truly gutless Republican fashion governor allows legislation to become law while claiming to not really supporting the measure… that way when it eventually goes south he can pretend he was against it all along and didn’t personally sign it…
Stressed out temporary or junior faculty carrying. Having worked at a public university, I can tell you that 1) you have some students that think they have earned the best grades just by paying tuition and coming to class and will argue with you if they don’t get the grades they think they deserve, and 2) some schools are the perfect places for bullies with tenure. All it takes is an under-paid, under-appreciated faculty member to come in contact with either the angry privileged student, or angry tenured senior faculty member, at the wrong time and we could have a national news story.
I remember when there was an uproar at a university because the university police force was going to be armed. They really were well-trained and very professional, and since they went through some very good police training, it turned into a non-issue. Allowing some faculty to be armed on campus is a much different story. Some faculty shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near other people, let alone with a gun!
Vanderbilt is private, and only public schools are subject to this law, right? Maybe, I’m missing something.
Yes, you’re right - I hadn’t picked up on that. But just wait for the next session of the legislature…
Never good at math, and always a bit short tempered and cranky, it must have been the question that set Roger off: “If a student has a 30 round magazine, how many good guys with pump shotguns will it take to stop him?”
New Class Superlative: Most Likely to Commit a Campus Atrocity
My youngest child is swims competitively, and is quite good. These kids are frequently looking at college swim programs, and these kinds of laws can certainly change their shortlists. My son swam Sectionals in March, and one of our 16YO boys was being talked up by the University of Wisconsin, Madison’s, coach. Parents want their kids to be safe. There are a lot of these laws passing around the country. One of our female swimmers was accepted to Rice University in Houston. The only reason it was under consideration is that is private and not subject to Texas’s law that permits guns on public college campuses.
Texas has a similar law, and it also exempts private schools. I wonder if the state could pass legislation and force private institutions to comply.
Even after Sandy Hook, and the invention of a pistol that can ONLY be fired by its owner, and in spite of countless polls showing America wants some sanity in firearms- politicians remain in thrall and in fear of the NRA. Appalling.
Republicans will never stop fighting to make America more dangerous.
do they post the shooter’s picture or the crime scene photos of the carnage in the yearbook ?
I think the answer is yes. The problem is the state would have to burn a lot of goodwill, with the schools and alumni, to get it passed.
It seems the legislature ignored the obvious, the only people packing seem to be those with paranoia issues and some serious self image problems. I just can’t see how any mentally healthy, non-fearful type would ever want to pack a gun.
Looks like everyone up for tenure will damn well be getting tenure.
People a hundred years from now are going to look at us and wonder why we value guns over our own children. I’m sure they already wonder that in the rest of the world today.