The 88th General Assembly
has convened the 2012 fiscal session

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Guns on campus

Stateline.org takes a look at legislation enabling concealed weapons on public college campuses. Here's a nationwide glance at states considering such a move (it should be noted that the Texas Legislature convenes every other year and has not been in legislative session in 2008):



A Harrison student was recently in the news for allowing those with legal concealed gun permits to have the ability to carry firearms on college campuses. Here's the January article from the Harrison Daily Times, which includes interviews with Sens. Randy Laverty (D-Jasper) and Shawn Womack (R-Mountain Home).