Texas CHL process is what responsible gun ownership is about. Proud of our process & the overall excellence of our CHL holders.
Really? Color me a little surprised.
Well, now Austin’s police chief is on record, and I do thank him for his words. But, it seems contrary to prior words.
He apparently doesn’t think college students are responsible enough.
“When you start talking about 21 year-olds and college students, responsibility is the last thing on their minds,” Acevedo said. “With a lot of pressure and high campus suicide rates, the last thing we want to include in that environment, like a bar, is guns.”
So let me get this straight. A 21-year-old Texas resident gets a Texas CHL. To have that CHL apparently demonstrates the person is a responsible gun owner — a person of excellence, according to Chief Acevedo.
But if that 21-year-old is a college student, if they cross over into the magical fairyland bubble of the college campus… suddenly somehow responsibility degrades to becoming the last thing on their mind.
Apparently I’m failing to understand Mr. Acevedo’s logic.
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I think there are two aspects to this
First, he is a politician trying to play both sides — the key is the “overall” — that excludes those 21 year old college students. Obviously the fact that they are in school, carrying legally is absolutely no factor in their decision making process concerning alcohol.
2nd, he is trying to appeal to the many liberals in Austin by limiting the expansion of our right to carry. What I don’t get is why they can’t do the math. The typical 21 year old living on campus is a distinctly small subset of the total college population. More likely a CHL holder would be a returning/non-traditional student.
Or a professor/staff member of the college tired of being on campus without adequate protection – ever notice how the politicians typically don’t talk about the professors?
I agree.
First part – people seem to forget that city police chiefs are politicians, and generally puppets at the whim of the Mayor and City Council (generally). So they’re going to play the city politics, and should be trusted just like any other politician. Sheriffs on the other hand, while still politicians in the sense they are elected, tend to also remember they directly answer to the citizenry that elected them… thus tend to have different views and speak differently. I tend to put a little more stock in what a Sheriff says than a Chief.
Why they can’t do the math is simple: math is hard. Math requires looking at the facts, the data, the logic.
The reality is very much what you said: that there are FEW 21-year old college students in general. If there’s anyone that wants to carry on campus, it’s generally non-students: teachers, employees, etc.. Those are hardly the people that are going to be out partying on Greek Row.
If you want to talk profs… check out Glenn Meyer down at Trinity.
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