Posted on 04/17/2007 10:54:45 AM PDT by Grig
Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind
America’s First Freedom Magazine, April 2002, Blaine L. Smith
I am a Full time returning college student and a CHL holder. The gun free zone laws are so backwards. I’m not some emotional 18 year old in the class room, who cannot get a CHL to begin with in Texas. I’m a well trained, and stable full grown man I should be allowed to carry in class to save my life and others in situations like this. I guess I should also mention for 9 years I was a Military Police officer. In those 9 years I was a member of my units SRT team(Special response & tactics) civilians would call it SWAT. A graduate of the PSD school (Personal security Detail) whos mission is to body-guard O6 officers, and higher. I hold expert ratings on the M-16, M9, M24 and MP5K. I am also a qualified armor for the M24, M16, & M9, So to say I’m not trained or qualified to responsibly conceal carry would be an insult; although liberal brainwashed kids at school constantly berate me for having a CHL like I’m some kind of animal for wanting even the option to defend my self. Still in Texas it’s a state jail felony to carry on a campus a lot of good my 9mm is going to do me in my glove box off campus. We see how well a similar law just worked for Virginia. My thoughts and prayer go to the families of the fallen it does not have to be this way. God Bless.
I remember this shooting and the fact that it was stopped by armed civilians. Thanks for posting this story. VT was not so fortunate.
My GOD! Some common sense from the MSM?
Time to buy a lottery ticket.
“Gun Free Zones” are nothing short of a killing ground in wait of a nutcase with a gun.
I haven’t gone unarmed in over two decades now. And I never, ever will.
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