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Early in the morning the next day, I crafted a letter to the entire UT community and began sending the letter, one email at a time. I first sent copies to few members of the faculty of the College of Natural Science, then to colleague historians in Arlington, San Marcos, and College Station, where I had been invited to talk in the past. The letter came from the gut. It was a tirade. There was no logical justification for the presence of guns in MY office and classrooms, I argued. The rate of crime on campus was lower than that in our immediate vicinity. |
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PHORTO
(11/19/2015)
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| Amazing. He wasted all those words to simply say, "I am a progressive dimwit." |
| Comment by:
jac
(11/19/2015)
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Typical brain dead liberal rant. I will comment on only one of his so called facts.
"The third claim, that carriers are outstanding citizens and commit less crimes than the average population cannot be disputed because the data has been made legally impossible to collect, due to NRA lobbying. The statistical evidence is also skewed by a culture of law enforcement and local prosecution that allows carriers not to be convicted.
The Texas Department of Public Safety website publishes the rate of all crimes committed by licensed to carry handgun holders. And I have never heard of a chl granting immunity or reduced charges for criminal actions. So the above is a lie along with most of his rant.
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jac
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Continued from above.
See https://www.txdps.state.tx.us/rsd/chl/reports/convrates.htm
for chl crime rates in Texas. |
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