So this is nuts. The Houston Chronicle bent itself backwards to scare people about Texas’ emerging legislation to legalize concealed carry on campuses.
Breitbart reports:
On February 21 the Houston Chronicle claimed the passage of Campus Carry in Texas could hurt education at colleges and universities and quoted M.D. Anderson’s Julie Penne saying it could hurt “cancer research” as well.
According to the Chronicle, legalizing the carry of handguns on campus “could cost tens of millions of dollars” and that money “could be…siphoned away from education and research programs at Texas universities.”
Using data from the Texas higher education systems, the Chronicle claims that many of the costs would be in increasing university police departments in response to law-abiding citizens carrying guns for self-defense. More “gun safes and lockers” would also have to be installed on campuses and “‘de-escalation’ and ‘judgment’ training for staff and on-campus security” would come at a high cost as well.
“Cost tens of millions of dollars?” Hurt “cancer research?” Wow. That’s a rare level of hyperbole and scare tactics, even if everything’s bigger in Texas.
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