I really enjoyed reading my colleague's work entitled "Texas "campus carry" law".
This is a great article and thank you for posting this. I have been thinking about the same for long time now. I know we all have different experiences with guns and each one of us has a different opinion about this Texas "campus carry" law. I may say it is good idea that students with guns could prevent some of the carnage inflicted by someone bent on killing on campuses but I disagree on the same when I think of the idea of young people, given the mental health issues and stress some people among the college demographic face, with weapons tucked under their coats.
It is a very dangerous proposition. I am worried that the presence of guns might impinge free speech by making some students too fearful to speak their minds in class. I feel that Campus carry, is forced on the campus by outsiders to make a political point. Overall, great commentary piece that I enjoyed to read, great work Berehanu!
Alrighty, so this week I'm a commentary on a commentary of another colleague's work (?), Raj's aptly named post, Comment on a colleague's work provides a commentary on Berehanu's Texas "Campus Carry" Law post.
ReplyDeleteRaj's commentary is not so much an assessment of Berehanu's rhetoric and composition, but rather a reflective post that simultaneously addresses fundamental issues of the campus carry law. Raj openly offers his opinion on the matter of campus carry, establishing the difficulty of the issue from the beginning while making an observation critical to the interpretation of the law, being that "we all have different experiences with guns and each one of us has a different opinion about this Texas "campus carry" law". The following points in his commentary are (in my opinion) a mirror image of the way most people (including myself) in the country feel, (somewhat) regardless of political stance, where people feel do identify a need for a measure of self defense, but are equally if not more worried over the prospect of any college-aged youth carrying on campus.
In the closing lines of the commentary, Raj offers a very intriguing point on the matter of the potential impact of campus carry on free speech, as well as identifying the possible interests of "outsiders" at play seeking to make a "political point". Raj's succinct commentary broadly summarizes the debate on the matter. Well done!