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CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Campus Carry Likely To Pass in Texas, Elsewhere; University Officials Unhappy?.

By Glenn Reynolds

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Campus Carry Likely To Pass in Texas, Elsewhere; University Officials Unhappy. Relax guys. Those people may not seem like your kind, but they’re not as threatening to your way of life as you think. Your worries that this will “change the culture” will soon seem bigoted and out of place as the integration process proceeds.

Is it just me, or is the notion that guns are especially dangerous on university campuses because they’re lawless and full of alcohol and drugs one of those arguments that “proves too much?” If campuses are really that bad, isn’t the problem, you know, bigger than just whether someone with a permit has a gun there?

UPDATE: Two further points. First the reporting at Inside Higher Ed is usually good, but this story is extremely one-sided, reading like a press release for the anti-campus-carry folks. Second, the university administrators here don’t do anything to further a reputation for critical thinking, since they keep stressing the danger of 18-year-olds carrying guns when, as is pointed out repeatedly in the comments, the permits are only available to those 21 and over. Credentialed, not educated . . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 04, 2011 (boomark / email).