Politics & Policy
December 22, 2015
Campus Carry: The Final Exam
A few questions about the state’s new law allowing guns on campus.
Guns
Politics & Policy
December 4, 2015
The Definition of Insanity
Maybe it’s time to try a different approach to mass shootings.
Politics & Policy
October 7, 2015
A Very Special Semicentennial
Of all the days for campus carry to take effect in Texas….
Politics & Policy
March 18, 2015
Guns, Ho-Hum
The Senate passes open carry and campus carry.
Politics & Policy
February 12, 2015
The Recent Push for Open Carry
Concealed carry has been legal since 1996—but the number of Texans applying for CHLs has exploded since 2008.
Politics & Policy
February 10, 2015
Not Such a Simple Picture
State gun laws are more complex than open carry advocates often suggest.
Politics & Policy
October 18, 2013
Jerry Patterson Wants You to Bring Your Guns to the Alamo
If someone handed me a flier that declared, "Get your guns & Head to San Antonio," I would probably get in my car and head for Dallas as fast as I could.
Politics & Policy
May 5, 2013
What Is Going on With Calendars?
How could Chairman Todd Hunter allow HB 1076, by Steve Toth — the “nullification” bill — to get on the general state calendar? Calendars is not a charity booth for clueless tea party members. It’s serious business. This is the worst breach of the way Calendars is supposed
Politics & Policy
January 17, 2013
Guns in school and everywhere else
I can’t conceive of any valid argument against expanded federal background checks for gun sales. We came within one vote on the Public Safety committee when Bush was governor of passing a requirement for background checks, and my recollection is that Bush killed it with a phone call.If
Politics & Policy
April 1, 2009
The Guns-on-Campus hearing
This is a report from Texas Monthly's intern, Abby Rapoport, on the Public Safety committee hearing of March 30 on Joe Driver's bill allowing guns on campus. It was four hours into the meeting before Public Safety made it to the issue that had brought crowds. Joe Driver presented HB