Texas State University Students Want Campus Carry

By Corey Rowland

Home to 35,000 students and growing, Texas State University has recently passed the campus carry law that will go into effect on August 1, 2016, and will make many students grateful for their right to express their second amendment.

In order to be able to qualify for Texas State University’s campus carry policy, students and faculty at Texas State University need to meet the regulations which includes going through the training process for safety and a background check to make sure the person applying isn’t a convicted felon.

One student feels that the law will eliminate the feeling of being unsafe while walking around on campus at all times.

“With all of the robberies that happen almost every week, I feel that this new campus carry law will eliminate the feeling of being unsafe, especially for women,“ Texas State University student Luke Scott said.

With this being a place of education, a lot of students feel that the campus should be a safe environment without the burden of worrying about being robbed. This new law will only add to that satisfaction.

“I have already registered to get my concealed handgun license and taken the course so I can legally carry my weapon on campus,” Scott said. “I’m just waiting for my background check and everything to go through.”

Many students are supposedly doing this, not just Scott. With this law going through, students have started to take the necessary repercussions to get their license so they no longer have to walk around scared and worried.

“Robberies that are occurring aren’t even at just at night anymore, they happen during the day,” Texas State University Brodie Lemons said. “If a hoodlum can rob another person in broad daylight, then every student should be able to carry their weapon on campus.”

If someone has the audacity to rob and attack someone in open daylight, then it has to leave students wondering what these same individuals would do in the night.

“I read a campus in Colorado allowed for campus carry, and that dropped crime by 60 percent or something like that I think,” Texas State University Student Alex Alldredge said.

If another campus that allowed for campus carry dropped crime by 60 percent, then all students should be in favor for this law. The fact alone that students and residents know that someone they are thinking about robbing could possibly have a gun on them has dropped the rate without anyone actually getting shot.