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Starting in January, you can legally carry handguns in public in Texas. And later next year, you can have concealed handguns on state university campuses. There are still a few strictly gun-free zones, like hospitals. Some Second Amendment advocates are trying to change that.
A North Texas representative wants legislation that would allow staff and visitors to bring firearms into hospitals for self-defense.
A few years ago, when State Rep. Drew Springer went to visit a Deputy Sheriff at Texas Health's Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth, he had to leave his gun in the car.
I go up and see the deputy and then I come back, he said. "I spend the next 10 minutes walking in a dark parking lot to get to my car in downtown Fort Worth and I absolutely did not feel safe.
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[font color=330099]He walked ten minutes in a dark parking lot? That will teach him to remember where he parked![/font]
Gothmog
(145,821 posts)riversedge
(70,438 posts)ummm.. yes it could happen. Was he ever concerned about the women who walk in the dark? Now that it is a gun issue-he is concerned for self. crap on him.
RussBLib
(9,056 posts)...howzabout we get to carry them into the State Capitol and all public buildings?
Come on, Mr. Gun Rights, why are the legislators, judges, and courts so off-limits?