Tag Archives: right to carry

Classic gun threat and defense

“Alexander directs his muzzle roughly at the robber’s larynx from a distance of only inches, while maintaining his left hand in a position to deflect an attempt by the robber to raise his own handgun. Alexander says he followed this action by informing the robber that ‘you need to get out of here before I blow your head off.’”

With some free legal analysis from the law professor-proprietor of the blog Legal Insurrection. Who says that, as usual with these cases of right-to-carry, stand-your-ground gun defense, no shots were fired. Brandishing with a promise to kill was enough to drive a robber away.

Texas campuses still safe for terrorists

I’m sure the boys of Al Q—who recently urged American Muslims to buy guns and start shooting—will be pleased as punch to hear the good news: they won’t be getting any return fire on a Texas college campus—at least not until the cops respond. When they do, if they do.

Al Q can thank a Texas Democrat, State Rep. Mike Villarreal of San Antonio. He used a parliamentary objection to kill what had been considered a sure-to-pass law to make it legal for already- licensed gun carriers to carry their guns on campus.

Empty holsters

These students have had it paying for and attending classes in a free-fire zone. But I doubt the Dems would agree.

Via Instapundit 

Fighting back

I’m not one of the 250,000 or so Texans licensed to carry a concealed handgun, but I definitely support the law that allows it and the law moving through the Legislature to protect their privacy by closing the license records to the curious. But I’m not sure the answer to the monster Cho and other psychos is more carrying. You’d first have to get schools, government offices and most businesses here and elsewhere to take down the signs at their entrances banning firearms on their premises, which of course only stops the law-abiding. A simpler approach would be to recognize that passivity in the face of the Chos has to end. High school and college students must be at least minimally trained to resist, as the Burleson school district south of Fort Worth is doing. One person with a gun could have stopped Cho, but three bold young men–or women, for that matter–with minimal training could have disarmed him.