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Madison D. Welch [email protected]

Southwest Regional Director

Students for Concealed Carry www.ConcealedCampus.org

Why Campus Carry1. Why should a trained, licensed, carefully screened adult (age 21 or above) be allowed to carry a concealed handgun at a movie theater

on Friday, at a shopping mall on Saturday, and in a church on Sunday but be prohibited from doing so in a college classroom onMonday?

2. Why should that same license holder be allowed to carry a concealed handgun at a municipal library but not a college library, at a healthclub but not a campus recreation center, and at a restaurant but not a university dining hall?

3. Does licensed concealed carry inhibit free expression in Texas churches or prevent heated debates in the Texas Capitol—two placeswhere concealed carry is currently allowed?

4. Given that college campuses are open environments with uncontrolled points of entry (no metal detectors or bag checks) and that aperson could just as easily walk into a classroom carrying a backpack full of guns as carrying a backpack full of books, why should aprofessor be more concerned about issuing a bad grade to someone who might secretly be a trained, tested, carefully vetted licenseholder carrying a gun LEGALLY than to someone who might secretly be an untrained, untested, unvetted criminal carrying a gunILLEGALLY?

5. Given that the debate is about changing WHERE concealed handgun license (CHL) holders can carry guns and would not change WHOcan carry a gun, why do opponents keep talking about the relative immaturity of college students?

6. Given that 90% of suicides occur in the victim's home, that most students over the age of 21 live off-campus, that the pending legislationwould allow universities to regulate the storage of firearms in on-campus housing, and that CHL holders are already allowed to keephandguns in locked vehicles parked on campus, what is the factual basis for claiming that campus carry would lead to an increase instudent suicides?

7. Given that the legalization of campus carry would not change the laws at fraternity houses, off-campus parties, tailgating events, orbars—the places where students (particularly those old enough to obtain a CHL) are most likely to drink—why do opponents spend somuch time talking about the dangers of mixing guns and alcohol?

8. How could three to ten SECONDS of exchanged gunfire (the average length of a gunfight, according to most experts) possibly result ingreater loss of life than a three- to ten-MINUTE uncontested, execution-style massacre?

9. If most shootouts are over in three to ten seconds, what are the odds of police encountering an ongoing shootout and being unable todistinguish the good guys from the bad guys?

10. Given that CHL holders are taught to move away from danger and would be required to keep their guns concealed unless facing anIMMEDIATE threat, how significant is the risk of police mistaking a good guy for a bad guy?

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Given that Texas CHL holders are convicted of violent crimes at approximately 1/5 the rate of the general population and that a Texan issignificantly more likely to be struck by lightning than to be murdered or negligently killed by a Texas CHL holder, why should anyoneassume that these vetted, licensed adults who aren't causing trouble elsewhere in Texas will cause trouble on college campuses?

12. Given that more than 150 U.S. college campuses currently allow licensed concealed carry and have done so for an average of fiveyears, without a single resulting assault, suicide attempt, or accidental death, why should anyone expect different results in Texas?

13. What is the benefit of a state law or school policy that stacks the odds in favor of any criminal or psychopath willing to ignore state lawand school policy?

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The truth about campus carry

http://tribtalk.org/2015/05/22/the-truth-about-campus-carry/

By Madison Welch, May 22, 2015

Opponents of legislation to legalize the licensed concealed carry of handguns on Texas college campuseshave a problem.

Try as they might, they have no factual basis for their claim that campus carry, as it’s known, would makeTexas colleges less safe.

Seventeen years of Texas Department of Public Safety statistics show that Texas’ concealed handgun license(CHL) holders are convicted of violent crimes at about one-fifth the rate of the general population. Outsideof Texas, more than 150 U.S. college campuses currently allow licensed concealed carry and have done so

for an average of five years, without a single resulting assault, suicide, homicide or accidental death. Unableto prove that campus carry is too dangerous, opponents adopted a new tactic this year — claiming thatcampus carry is too expensive.

The University of Texas System says campus carry legislation would cost the system $39 million over sixyears, the Houston Chronicle reported earlier this year. Curiously, the system estimates needing $22 millionin security upgrades for the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston — a teaching hospital that servesfewer than 6,500 trainees, offers no on-campus residences and, under the proposed law, would retain theright to prohibit guns in any facility operating as part of a licensed hospital.

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The University of Houston System claims it would need $9 million over that same six-year period to buildand staff secured facilities to store handguns belonging to the estimated handful of UH dorm residents who,according to Students for Concealed Carry research, are CHL holders. The UH System insists that theseexpenses are necessary, even though the bill in question wouldn’t mandate safe-storage facilities and wouldallow cheaper options such as requiring dorm residents to store firearms at the campus police station or keeptheir firearms locked in their cars, as state law currently allows.

It's no coincidence that both M.D. Anderson and the University of Houston are in the district of state Sen.Rodney Ellis, D-Houston. During the 2011 legislative session, Ellis helped derail similar legislation bysaying on the Senate floor that the bill would cost each of the colleges in his district up to a million dollars per year in additional insurance premiums. Our group later showed this claim to be dubious, but not before itsucceeded in costing the bill one of the 21 votes it needed, under the Senate's old "two-thirds" rule, to receivea floor vote. It's no surprise that Ellis has once again played the "unfunded mandate" card.

Aside from safe-storage facilities, most of the requested security upgrades are reported to be things like keycard readers and "judgment" training for staff and security personnel — general security measures that areoptional. Locations such as shopping malls, movie theaters and churches manage to allow licensed concealedcarry without such security features. Texas' college campuses have also so far managed to allow licensedconcealed carry in their parking lots, outdoor walkways, grassy quads and other outdoor areas without majorsecurity upgrades or additional police training, so why would allowing concealed carry in campus buildingssuddenly require such expenditures?

A few university officials have tried to generate concern about volatile chemicals stored in campus labs. Ifcarrying a handgun in close proximity to these chemicals poses such a safety risk, why have the state'suniversities so far been content with only the security offered by honor-system- based “gun-free” policies?Why are administrators more concerned about the danger from lawfully carried handguns than about thedanger from illegally carried handguns? Aren’t a bunch of ready-made bombs scattered around a densely populated campus an invitation to terrorists and psychopaths?

The estimates offered by these universities are not only baseless but also wildly inconsistent — smallcampuses claim to need millions of dollars while larger campuses, including UT-Austin, have estimated noadditional cost. The bottom line is that the multimillion-dollar price tags claimed by the UT and UH systemsaren't about safety; they're about politics. University officials, aided by like-minded legislators, have honedthe anti-campus-carry argument to appeal to the fiscally conservative majority in the Texas Capitol. It's anends-justifies-the-means approach that practitioners hope will kill campus carry legislation or, at the veryleast, pad university coffers.

Madison Welch

Regional director of Students for Concealed Carry

@madisondwelch

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[email protected] www.ConcealedCampus.org

Dear Members of the 84th

Texas Legislature:

As you consider legislation to legalize the licensed concealed carry of handguns on Texas college campuses,I hope you’ll

take a moment to watch these three video clips from the 2014 and 2011 Students for Concealed Carry national

conferences.

In this seven-minute clip from the 2014 conference, Holly Adams recounts the pain of losing her daughter Leslie in the

2007 Virginia Tech massacre and explains, “If you were in my shoes, you would probably eagerly sacrifice your own life if

only, on that horrible day, someone on campus—in the dorm or in the classroom—could have carried a weapon andstopped the killer in his tracks before he claimed thirty-two precious lives":http://youtu.be/fHHUUqhZ7U0

Of course, mass shootings such as the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre are not the only reason students, faculty, staff, and

visitors should be allowed the means to protect themselves on college campuses. In this eight-minute clip from the 2011

conference, Amanda Collins bravely recounts how she was sexually assaulted in a parking garage at the University of

Nevada, Reno: http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4505990/amanda-collins-speaks-2011-scc-national-conference

In her address to the conference, Amanda argued that she could have stopped her assailant if only the university and

the Nevada Legislature had allowed her the same measure of personal protection on campus that she, as a concealed

handgun license holder, was allowed virtually everywhere else in the state. Her assailant was later arrested and

convicted for the kidnapping, sexual assault, and murder of nineteen-year-old Brianna Denison

(http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/brianna-denisons-life-ends-in-brutal-rape-and-murder). Amanda believes that if

she had been allowed the means to protect herself in that university parking garage, Brianna—who was abducted and

murdered three months later—might still be alive.

In this nine-minute video from the 2014 conference, Dartmouth student Taylor Woolrich tells the story of how she was

relentlessly stalked by a sixty-three-year-old man who—after meeting her at the coffee shop where she worked—

followed her, harassed her, assaulted her boyfriend, repeatedly violated a restraining order against him, and was

ultimately arrested outside her parents’ home, carrying what police described as a “rape kit”:

http://youtu.be/b5I6uBBW9i0

When Taylor asked university officials to grant her permission to carry a concealed handgun for protection against this

stalker, the request was flatly denied with no option for appeal. Taylor explained, “The operator at Safety and Security atDartmouth College told me that I could call for a security escort if I felt unsafe. I've done this, and I got responses such

as, ‘You can't keep calling us all the time,’ or ‘You can only call after 9 PM.’ I'd like to say that my stalker doesn't really

care what time of day it is. He doesn't care if it's light or dark or if I'm on the East Coast or the West Coast or out of the

country. I have an out-of-control situation, and I'm asking for my control back.”

The push to legalize campus carry is not a ploy by “gun nuts” looking for an excuse to play cop or hero; it is about real

people looking for the means to defend themselves against the types of horrors experienced by Leslie Adams, Amanda

Collins, and Taylor Woolrich. SCC is not asking to lower the CHL age limit or to otherwise redefine who can carry a gun.

We're not asking to change the concealed carry laws at bars, off-campus parties, fraternity houses, tailgating events, or

any other location where college students are likely to consume alcohol. We are simply asking that trained, licensed,

carefully screened adults (age 21 and above) be afforded the same right in college classrooms, lecture halls, libraries,and cafeterias that they’re already afforded in churches, movie theaters, shopping malls, grocery stores, restaurants,

banks, and even the Texas Capitol.

Thank you for considering this important issue.

Sincerely,

Madison D. Welch

Southwest Regional Director, Students for Concealed Carry


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 12/09/2014

CONTACT:Madison D. Welch, Southwest Regional Director, Students for Concealed Carry (SCC)[email protected] SCC Board of Directors: [email protected]

TEXAS A&M STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT SIGNS CAMPUS CARRY RESOLUTION

COLLEGE STATION, TX - On Monday, December 8, 2014, Texas A&M Student Body President Kyle Kelly signed aStudent Senate resolution calling on school officials and state legislators to allow licensed concealed carry (of handguns)in university buildings.

The Personal Protection Act, which the A&M Student Senate passed on December 3, by a vote of 39 to 12, calls for theadoption of a state law or school policy ensuring that concealed handgun license holders are allowed the same measureof personal protection on A&M's College Station campus—including in campus buildings—as they currently enjoy in mostother locations (e.g., movie theaters, shopping malls, restaurants, grocery stores, banks, churches, and even the TexasCapitol).

In his official signing statement, Kelly wrote, “It is imperative that dialogue on this difficult issue be founded in factsand not feelings.” Speaking with A&M’s student newspaper The Battalion, he said, “I have gone from being againstthe issue and of the position of vetoing the bill to now signing it and being in favor of concealed carry on

campus. Part of that is because [of] what I have learned, through the process, that I didn’t know.”

Madison Welch, Southwest regional director for Students for Concealed Carry, commented:

It’s reassuring to see student leaders looking past the myth that campus carry is about givingeverybody the right to have any gun anywhere, at any time. The A&M student governmentunderstands that concealed handgun license holders are trained, licensed, carefully screenedadults whose general trustworthiness is borne out in statistics from the Texas Department ofPublic Safety and on the approximately 150 U.S. college campuses that currently allow concealedcarry. Why should a license holder be allowed to carry a concealed handgun in a movie theater onFriday, in a shopping mall on Saturday, and in a church on Sunday but be prohibited from doingso in a lecture hall on Monday? What is the logic behind allowing concealed carry at municipallibraries but not at campus libraries, at health clubs but not at student recreation centers, and at

restaurants but not at campus dining halls?

With a total enrollment of 62,185 students, Texas A&M is the largest university in the state of Texas and the fourth largestuniversity in the United States. The Personal Protection Act now represents the official position of A&M’s undergraduatestudent body (47,567 students).

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ABOUT STUDENTS FOR CONCEALED CARRY — Students for Concealed Carry (SCC) is a national, non-partisan,grassroots organization comprising college students, faculty, staff, and concerned citizens who believe that holders ofstate-issued concealed handgun licenses should be allowed the same measure of personal protection on collegecampuses that current laws afford them virtually everywhere else. SCC is not affiliated with the NRA or any otherorganization. For more information on SCC, visit ConcealedCampus.org or Facebook.com/ConcealedCampus.

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OR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 02/23/2015 (REVISED 03/21/2015)

ONTACT:

Madison D. Welch, Southwest Director, Students for Concealed Carry (SCC) - [email protected]

CC Board of Directors: [email protected]

TEXAS UNIVERSITIES USE FABRICATED COSTS TO CAST DOUBT ON CAMPUS CARRY

During the 2011 Texas Legislative Session, Senator Rodney Ellis (D-Houston) announced on the Senate floor that, accordin

he administrators of colleges in his district, then-pending legislation to legalize the licensed concealed carry of handguns on Texas

ollege campuses would cost those institutions millions of dollars in increased insurance premiums. That claim was quickly refutedhttp://is.gd/t3CvDt) but not before the fabricated specter of an "unfunded mandate" succeeded in derailing the bill in question. In

ght of this history, it's no surprise that college administrators, again aided by Senator Ellis, are once again warning of expenses tha

xist only in their imaginations.

According to an article (http://is.gd/YWO9wX) published in the Sunday, February 22, edition of the Houston Chronicle, the

nd UH systems believe that Senate Bill 11—the "campus carry" bill—would cost them an aggregate of $47 million over six years. N

urprisingly, most of that purported cost would be borne by campuses in Senator Ellis's own district. Reportedly, $22 million

approximately 47%) would be needed by the on-campus police department at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Cente

or "the installation of gun safes and lockers, additional administrative personnel and to fund 'de-escalation' and 'judgment' trainin

or staff and on-campus security." That's $6.5 million per year, over the initial six years, for an institution (http://is.gd/hFPTly) that

erves fewer than 6,500 trainees (mostly graduate students and post-doctoral residents and researchers), that offers no on-campu

ousing, and that would (under SB 11) retain the right to prohibit guns in any facility functioning as part of a licensed hospital .

The University of Houston System, which operates primarily in Senator Ellis's district, claims it would spend $3 million the ear and $1.2 million each year thereafter, to "create, maintain, and staff secured weapons storage facilities in nine dormitories."

According to a 2013 article (http://is.gd/Wj4ygx) in the Houston Chronicle, the main UH campus has a dorm capacity of 8,008 stude

the second-largest dorm capacity of any Texas university, behind only Texas A&M). According to the website (http://is.gd/lanSTS)

UH-Victoria, the UH-Victoria campus has a dorm capacity of just over 600. No other UH campus offers on-campus housing. This me

hat—based on the low rate (http://is.gd/Kgqgnx) of concealed handgun licensure among persons of typical undergraduate age (18

3) and the low rate (http://is.gd/8WtGpC) at which persons over the age of 21 live in on-campus dorms—the UH System is conce

bout securing fewer than a half-dozen handguns per year. Madison Welch, Southwest regional director for Students for Conceale

arry, commented, "If the University of Houston System can't figure out a way to secure handguns for less than $200,000 per

andgun per year, they have much bigger problems than campus carry."

Nothing in Senate Bill 11 (http://is.gd/1DnM1m) would require universities to create or staff "secured weapons storage

acilities." The bill simply states that institutions of higher education would be allowed to "establish rules, regulations, or other

rovisions concerning the storage of handguns in dormitories or other residential facilities that are owned or leased and operated he institution and located on the campus of the institution." Based on the wording of that provision, universities could presumabl

equire the handful of dorm residents who possess a valid concealed handgun license (CHL) to check their f irearms at the campus

olice station before turning in for the night. Or UH could do what the University of Colorado System does (http://is.gd/9rWw1b) a

ffer only one gun-friendly residence hall per campus (the UH System appears to have only two campuses with dormitories).

Alternatively, UH could simply continue its current policy (per state law) of allowing CHL holders living in on-campus housing to sto

heir guns in their cars. As for the need to provide additional training for staff and on-campus security, Madison Welch noted:

For more than nineteen years, it has been legal for a CHL holder to park her car in a campus parking garage, take a leisu

stroll through campus, and stop to read a book under one of the trees in the middle of the campus quad, all while carry

a concealed handgun. Yet we're expected to believe that letting that same license holder carry her concealed handgun i

a campus building would necessitate millions of dollars in additional training for the same security officers who didn't n

any additional training to protect the parking garage, the sidewalk, or the quad. Either universities are fishing for fundinfor security improvements they should have implemented decades ago, or they and their friend Senator Ellis are once a

relying on fuzzy math and fuzzy ethics to derail good legislation.

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ABOUT STUDENTS FOR CONCEALED CARRY— Students for Concealed Carry (SCC) is a national, non-partisan, grassroots organizatio

omprising college students, faculty, staff, and concerned citizens who believe that holders of state-issued concealed handgun lice

hould be allowed the same measure of personal protection on college campuses that current laws afford them virtually everywhe

lse. SCC is not affiliated with the NRA or any other organization. For more information on SCC, visit ConcealedCampus.org or

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CONTACT:

Madison D. Welch, Southwest Regional Director, Students for Concealed Carry (SCC)

[email protected]

SCC Board of Directors: [email protected]

IF CAMPUS CARRY WOULD COST UT SYSTEM TENS OF MILLIONS, WHY DOES UT-AUSTIN ESTIMATE ITS COST AT ZERO?

If the University of Texas System honestly believes that Texas Senate Bill 11, the "campus carry" bill authored bySenator Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury), would cost (http://is.gd/YzFo7U) the system $39 million over six years, why did the

system's flagship university—UT-Austin, which serves more than 51,000 students—submit a fiscal note claiming that it

expects to incur zero cost associated with the bill? An article (http://is.gd/m2JdQe) in the February 26, 2015, edition of

the UT-Austin student newspaper The Daily Texan, states, "According to UT-Austin’s fiscal note, which estimates

expenses associated with campus carry, the policy would not cost the University any additional funds."

The article quotes UT-Austin spokesman Garry Susswein as saying that dorm residents in need of secured

firearms storage would be expected to bear those costs themselves. This begs the question: If UT-Austin, the largest

university in the system and the second largest university in the state, would not incur any notable costs as a result of

Senate Bill 11, where would the purported $6.5 million annual cost be incurred? The article explains:

Most significantly, the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center estimated it would require $22 million dollars toincrease staff size and training for its police department and to install security systems, such as card readers,

UT System spokeswoman Jenny LaCoste-Caputo said. “It’s clear that there are inherent safety risks in a

medical setting that present specific challenges, such as medical equipment, the presence of chemicals held

under high pressure, safety concerns for patients and providing necessary storage for handguns that doesn’t

currently exist,” LaCoste-Caputo said in an email. UT-Dallas, UT-El Paso and UT-Rio Grande Valley have also

requested additional funds to accommodate campus carry if the bill were to pass. Combined, the institutions

requested about $630,000 for security measures.

Given that on-campus housing is the only location where Senate Bill 11 would allow universities to regulate the

storage of handguns but that the bill would allow universities to continue to prohibit handguns in any facility operating

as part of a licensed hospital, why would MD Anderson—which offers no on-campus student housing and comprises

primarily hospital facilities—spend money to install handgun storage facilities? Furthermore, why would allowing

licensed concealed carry in non-hospital teaching and administrative buildings necessitate the installation of card

readers or the hiring of additional police?

If carrying a handgun in close proximity to "chemicals held under high pressure" poses such a safety risk, why

has MD Anderson thus far been content with only the security offered by an honor-system-based "gun-free" policy?

Now that they've announced to the world's terrorists that their facilities are rife with ready-made IEDs, won't they need

to implement these security measures regardless of the final disposition of Senate Bill 11? SCC Southwest Regional

Director Madison Welch commented, "When an institution that has taken no steps to mitigate the dangers posed by

the illegal possession of firearms claims to need tens of millions of dollars to mitigate dangers posed by the lawful

possession of a firearms, that tells me that the administrators are less concerned with security than with pushing their

own political agenda or padding their institution's coffers."

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organization comprising college students, faculty, staff, and concerned citizens who believe that holders of state-issued

concealed handgun licenses should be allowed the same measure of personal protection on college campuses that

current laws afford them virtually everywhere else. SCC is not affiliated with the NRA or any other organization. For

more information on SCC, visit ConcealedCampus.org or Facebook.com/ConcealedCampus .

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OPPONENTS OF CAMPUS CARRY ASSUME VOTERS HAVE SHORT ATTENTION SPANS

AUSTIN, TX - The legislators and gun-control activists who incessantly parrot the claim that Senator Brian Birdwell (R-

Granbury) is pandering to Baylor University (the largest employer in his district) by exempting private colleges from his "campus

carry" legislation (SB 11) are clearly hoping voters won't remember that the language exempting private colleges originated in

campus carry legislation by former Senator Jeff Wentworth (R-San Antonio), whose district encompassed the state's fifth-largest

public university but no large private universities.

During the Wednesday, March 18, floor debate on Senate Bill 11, Senator Rodney Ellis (D-Houston), remarked to Senator

Birdwell, “It is interesting that you would put this in public universities—in other people’s districts—but not private, when the

largest employer in your district is a private university.”

This is a favorite talking point among opponents of the bill, but it ignores the fact that the opt-out language for private

universities originated in Senator Wentworth's committee substitute to his 2009 campus carry bill (SB 1164). Senator Wentworth

included the same language in his 2011 campus carry bill (SB 354), and Senator Birdwell repeated it in his 2013 bill (SB 182). Because

Senator Wentworth's district encompassed the town of San Marcos—home to Texas State University—but did not include any large

private universities, there is no evidence that the language is intended to create a carve-out for Baylor or any other individual

institution.

Madison Welch, Southwest regional director for Students for Concealed Carry, commented:

Opponents hope to derail this bill by pushing the false narrative of a "double standard," but the reality is that the ability

of private colleges to operate free of many of the restrictions placed on public colleges is fundamental to the existence of

private colleges. When you consider that private colleges have wide latitude to require church attendance, enforce

morality codes, and place restrictions on students' freedom of speech, it makes sense that those same institutions would

be allowed to restrict the rights of concealed handgun license holders on campus. If that is a double standard, it's the

same double standard that always exists between private property and public property. There is nothing unethical or

unusual about allowing private property owners to set their own policies but requiring state-funded colleges to honor

state-issued licenses.

The double-standard narrative is one of two popular talking points among opponents of campus carry. The other is that

campus carry would place a heavy financial burden on Texas colleges. For example, the University of Houston recently claimed it

would need $3 million for the first year and $1.2 million for each subsequent year, to build and staff secured storage facilities to

house the guns of concealed handgun license (CHL) holders living in on-campus dorms.

Ignoring the fact that Senate Bill 11 does not mandate secured storage facilities and would allow UH to continue its current

policy of requiring CHL holders living in dorms to store their handguns in their locked vehicles parked on campus, the university's

cost estimate is beyond absurd. The number of UH dorm residents with concealed handgun licenses can be estimated using statistics

from the University of Texas.

According to Austin NBC news affiliate KXAN, only 2.5% of the students living on campus at UT-Austin are 21 or older.

According to the UT-Austin website, the university has an on-campus housing capacity of 6,956. If we take 2.5% of 6,956, that’s 174

on-campus residents who are 21 or older. Because 9.5% of UT-Austin students are foreign nationals, we’re looking at about 157 who

are eligible for a Texas CHL. If we use the rate (1.3%) at which Texans age 21-23 are licensed to carry a concealed handgun, to

estimate how many of those 157 students are CHL holders, we can calculate that there are approximately two CHL holders living in

on-campus housing at UT-Austin.

According to a 2013 article in the Houston Chronicle, UH has a dorm capacity of 8,008 students, which is just 15% greater

than that of UT-Austin. Assuming that the demographic makeup of UH is comparable to that of UT, we can estimate that UH hasbetween two and three CHL holders living in on-campus dorms (2.4 using the exact percentages from UT; 2.6 if we don't discount for

foreign nationals). This means the University of Houston claims to need $1.5 million to $400,000 per year per handgun. Welch

quipped, "The university could save at least fifty percent by buying each of the CHL holders a house to live in."

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college students, faculty, staff, and concerned citizens who believe that holders of state-issued concealed handgun licenses should be allowed the

same measure of personal protection on college campuses that current laws afford them virtually everywhere else. SCC is not affiliated with the

NRA or any other organization. For more information on SCC, visit ConcealedCampus.org or Facebook.com/ConcealedCampus.

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OR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 04/01/2015

ONTACT:

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CC Board of Directors: [email protected]

ADMIRAL BILL MCRAVEN MAY UNDERSTAND GUNS, BUT HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND CONCEALED CARRY IN TEXAS

AUSTIN, TX - Retired Navy SEAL turned University of Texas Chancellor William H. McRaven may be an expert on the use of firear

n combat, but he has repeatedly demonstrated that Texas's concealed carry laws fall outside that area of expertise.

According to the UT-Texas student newspaper The Daily Texan, Admiral McRaven—speaking at a March 31 conference—criticize

ending legislation to legalize the licensed concealed carry of handguns on Texas college campuses, stating, "I think what will happen ove

me [is] we will begin to have a little bit of a barricade mentality … because, frankly, we’ll have to make sure that students carrying those

weapons — well you’re going to have to check your gun at certain areas where you’re not allowed to carry those."

The suggestion that students would need to be screened for weapons or that concealed handgun license (CHL) holders would ne

o check their handguns demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of not only how concealed carry laws are implemented througho

he rest of Texas but also of what those laws currently say. Throughout Texas, there are shopping malls and retail centers where licensed

oncealed carry is allowed in most businesses but prohibited (either by statute or by choice) in a few. A bar where concealed carry is

tatutorily prohibited or a jewelry store where the owner has made the choice to prohibit concealed carry isn't required to screen patron

r provide safe storage for handguns. As would be the case at prohibited locations on college campuses, those businesses are simply req

o post signs informing patrons that licensed concealed carry is not allowed on the premises. As with most concealed carry laws, the burd

f compliances is borne by the license holder.

If Admiral McRaven is so concerned about making sure students don't carry guns into gun-free-zones, why does the entire Unive

f Texas System currently operate on an honor-system-based gun-free policy? Given that licensed concealed carry is currently legal on mf UT-Austin's forty acres—including in any parking lot, parking garage, walkway, sidewalk, street, or other publicly accessible outdoor ar

houldn't the UT System already have weapons checks at the entrances to campus buildings? Because Texas colleges cannot prohibit lice

tudents from keeping handguns in their private vehicles parked on campus, doesn't Admiral McRaven's logic dictate that students shoul

earched as soon as they step out of their cars?

University buildings located outside the main campus are sometimes not readily identifiable as being owned or operated by an

nstitution of higher education, yet Admiral McRaven and the state's other university administrators apparently believe that CHL holders

ollow the law at those locations. Therefore, doesn't it stand to reason that CHL holders would follow the law at the handful of on-campu

ocations that, under the proposed law, would be easily identified by the required signage?

Madison Welch, Southwest regional director for Students for Concealed Carry, commented, "Why does Admiral McRaven feel t

n honor-system-based gun-free policy is sufficient if it covers all campus buildings but insufficient if it covers just a few well-marked

ocations such as hospitals, K-12 schools, and sporting events?"

Admiral McRaven's comment about a "barricade mentality" isn't the first time he has demonstrated a fundamental

misunderstanding of licensed concealed carry. During a February 5 event hosted by the Texas Tribune, Admiral McRaven asked, "If you’re

eated debate with somebody in the middle of a classroom, and you don’t know whether or not that individual is carrying, how does tha

nhibit the interaction between students and faculty?" This ignores the fact that, in the absence of metal detectors at every entrance to e

ampus building, students and faculty already don't know if someone is carrying a gun. All they know for sure is that the people concerne

with obeying the law aren't carrying guns. And according to statistics, the people concerned with obeying the law aren't the ones student

nd faculty need to worry about.

Madison Welch noted:

When you consider that Texas concealed handgun license holders are convicted of violent crimes at approximately 20% the ra

the general population; that licensed concealed carry is already allowed in Texas churches, Texas office buildings, and even th

Texas Capitol; and that any person unconcerned with following the rules can just as easily walk into a college classroom carry

a backpack full of guns as carrying a backpack full of books, the suggestion that classroom debates are sufficient reason to

prohibit licensed concealed carry on Texas college campuses is patently absurd. I respect Admiral McRaven's service to hiscountry, and I respect that he is trying to back the men and women under his command, but his arguments don't stand up to

scrutiny.

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STUDENTS FOR CONCEALED CARRY RELEASES TV AD IN TEXAS

AUSTIN, TX - Students for Concealed Carry today unveiled a television ad and website (www.WhyCampusCarry.com) aimed at rebutting the misinformation and false claims spread by opponents of pending legislation to legalize the licensedconcealed carry of handguns on Texas college campuses. The ad, which will begin airing in Texas later this week, directlytargets an earlier ad released by the gun-control organizations Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action forGun Sense in America.

Madison Welch, Southwest regional director for Students for Concealed Carry, explained, "SCC's primary focus is oneducating legislators and the public about the facts of campus carry. When we saw that our opponents were usingtelevision ads to make false claims about where guns would be allowed under the proposed law, we knew we needed toset the record straight."

The ad from Students for Concealed Carry also points out that the only impartial poll on the subject found more Texans insupport of campus carry than opposed to it. The earlier ad from Everytown and Moms Demand Action cites the findings ofan internal poll that, according to The Dallas Morning News, included questions "clearly designed to push [respondents] ina certain direction."

Welch added, " Although we trust our lawmakers to research this issue and see through our opponents’ lies, weunderstand that the average Texan doesn’t have time to read all six thousand bills pending before the Texas Legislature.Our hope is that people who care about this issue will see our ad and visit the accompanying website to get the full story."

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ABOUT STUDENTS FOR CONCEALED CARRY — Students for Concealed Carry (SCC) is a national, non-partisan,grassroots organization comprising college students, faculty, staff, and concerned citizens who believe that holders ofstate-issued concealed handgun licenses should be allowed the same measure of personal protection on collegecampuses that current laws afford them virtually everywhere else. SCC is not affiliated with the NRA or any otherorganization. For more information on SCC, visit ConcealedCampus.org or Facebook.com/ConcealedCampus.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 04/29/2015


Michael Cargill, Owner, Central Texas Gun [email protected]

FEWER THAN 50 TURN OUT FOR ANTI-CAMPUS CARRY RALLY AT UT-AUSTIN

AUSTIN, TX - With more than 75,000 students, faculty, and staff, the University of Texas at Austin is by far the largestuniversity to see its administration and student government take a stance against the legalization of licensed concealedcarry on Texas college campuses; however, fewer than 50 people—including speakers and photographers—turned outTuesday for a well-publicized rally to oppose the two campus carry bills currently pending before the Texas Legislature.

The rally was meant to demonstrate overwhelming opposition to the pending legislation, but news photographs(http://is.gd/oiM7X1) show only about 45 people gathered in the west mall rally area of the UT-Austin campus.

Conversely, a 2011 concealed handgun licensing class (http://is.gd/iQzFnJ) hosted on the UT-Austin campus byStudents for Concealed Carry attracted more than 60 UT-Austin students, faculty, and staff, plus several SCC membersfrom other schools.

Texas concealed handgun licensing instructor Michael Cargill, who taught the class, noted, "We had roughly 70students show up on campus at 8 AM on a Saturday, to spend all day taking a class for which they got no credit.In my mind, that takes a lot more commitment than showing up on a Tuesday afternoon, to spend forty-fiveminutes listening to speeches."

Madison Welch, Southwest regional director for Students for Concealed Carry, added, "Opponents of campus carrydesperately want the Texas public and the Texas Legislature to believe that academics are fiercely against thislegislation, yet their big rally against the bill didn’t attract one tenth of one percent of the UT-Austin population. Ifthis rally says anything at all about the bill's opponents, it's that they're uninformed and unmotivated."

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ABOUT STUDENTS FOR CONCEALED CARRY—

Students for Concealed Carry (SCC) is a national, non-partisan,grassroots organization comprising college students, faculty, staff, and concerned citizens who believe that holders ofstate-issued concealed handgun licenses should be allowed the same measure of personal protection on collegecampuses that current laws afford them virtually everywhere else. SCC is not affiliated with the NRA or any otherorganization. For more information on SCC, visit ConcealedCampus.org or Facebook.com/ConcealedCampus. For moreinformation on the debate over campus carry in Texas, visit WhyCampusCarry.com.

RELATED: http://tinyurl.com/scc-2015-texas-handout | http://tinyurl.com/texas-chl-requirements |http://tinyurl.com/chl-tx-prohibited-locations


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 04/30/2015


WHEN FACTS FAIL YOU, PLAY BEER PONG IN LEGISLATORS' OFFICES

AUSTIN, TX - Still refusing to acknowledge the legal distinction between a college campus and an off-campus party,members of the Texas chapter of the gun-control group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America spentWednesday toting a portable "beer pong" game around the Texas Capitol.

Late Wednesday afternoon, the group posted pictures (http://is.gd/ZfuPGb) to its Facebook page, showing membersposing with ping pong balls and red plastic cups—staples of the infamous drinking game—in various locations throughoutthe Texas Capitol. This latest bit of theatrics is part of the group's ongoing efforts to mislead the public and the legislatureinto believing that pending legislation to legalize the licensed concealed carry of handguns on Texas college campuseswould impact off-campus parties.

In a television commercial (http://is.gd/wjUeyU) released by Moms Demand Action earlier this month, images of a beerpong game are accompanied by a voiceover claiming—falsely—that the legislation in question would "force colleges toallow guns" at "frat parties." In reality, fraternity houses are privately owned or leased by the overseeing fraternalorganization and aren't covered by the current statutory prohibition (http://is.gd/qvvJ5v) against the possession of afirearm on the physical premises of an educational institution. Under the pending campus carry legislation, these fraternalorganizations would retain the right to establish their own firearm policies at their fraternity houses.

Madison Welch, Southwest regional director for Students for Concealed Carry, commented, "I've spent the past five yearson Texas college campuses, and I've never seen a beer pong game at any location that would be impacted by campuscarry. It's been my experience that universities tend to frown on wild parties in lecture halls and libraries."

Neither Texas Senate Bill 11 nor Texas House Bill 937 would change the laws at fraternity houses, bars, tailgating events,or off-campus parties—locations not covered by the current campus gun ban. A separate statutory prohibition againstconcealed carry in bars would remain in effect, as would a statutory prohibition against carrying a concealed handgunwhile intoxicated (http://is.gd/HKc92u).

Welch noted, "Every day, Texas college students attend parties where licensed concealed carry is allowed under current

law. In fact, mos t college parties take place in locations where licensed concealed carry is allowed under current law. Topoint to those parties, where concealed carry is already legal, as a reason to continue to prohibit concealed carry inlocations such as classrooms, libraries, and cafeterias is the most twisted kind of logic."

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ABOUT STUDENTS FOR CONCEALED CARRY — Students for Concealed Carry (SCC) is a national, non-partisan,grassroots organization comprising college students, faculty, staff, and concerned citizens who believe that holders ofstate-issued concealed handgun licenses should be allowed the same measure of personal protection on collegecampuses that current laws afford them virtually everywhere else. SCC is not affiliated with the NRA or any otherorganization. For more information on SCC, visit ConcealedCampus.org or Facebook.com/ConcealedCampus. For moreinformation on the debate over campus carry in Texas, visit WhyCampusCarry.com.

RELATED: http://tinyurl.com/scc-2015-texas-handout | http://tinyurl.com/texas-chl-requirements

|http://tinyurl.com/chl-tx-prohibited-locations

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January 1, 2015, Texas Concealed Handgun Licensure Among Persons Age 18-23

Licenses Issued Minus Licenses Revoked

2014 2013 2012 2011 2010

Age

18* 18 16 11 15 1319* 78 61 39 42 40

20* 140 108 73 72

21 3271 2810 2085

22 2520 2508

23 2453 TOTAL

SUBTOTAL 8480 5503 2208 129 53 16373

License issuance and revocation numbers courtesy of Texas Department of

Public Safety:

https://www.txdps.state.tx.us/rsd/chl/reports/demographics.htm

NOTE: A first-time license issued in 2009 expired before the end of 2014.

Texas Population Estimates by Age

18 396586

19 396835

20 400420

21 403126

22 397679 (approx.)

23 397679 (approx.)2392325

Population estimates courtesy of the Texas Department of State Health Services:

https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/CHS/Popdat/Dtl/DTL2014p/

*A person age 18-20 can only obtain a Texas CHL if he or she is a member or

veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces. As of January 1, 2015, there were a maximum

of 324 active Texas CHLs held by military personnel and veterans age 18-20.

Among Texans in that age range, that's approximately 0.027%, or one person out

of every 3,685.

As of January 1, 2015, the rate of concealed handgun licensure among Texans age

21-23 is approximately 1.3%, or one person out of every 75.

As of January 1, 2015, the rate of concealed handgun licensure among Texans age

18-23 is approximately 0.68%, or one person out of every 146.

(This is up from roughly 0.5%, or one person out of every 198, on January 1, 2013.)

https://www.txdps.state.tx.us/rsd/chl/reports/demographics.htmhttps://www.dshs.state.tx.us/CHS/Popdat/Dtl/DTL2014p/https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/CHS/Popdat/Dtl/DTL2014p/https://www.txdps.state.tx.us/rsd/chl/reports/demographics.htm


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Convictions

of

Texas

HL

Holders for Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon

Population

CHL

Holders

CHL

Holders

2013 26,640,165 708,048 2.6578

2012 26,130,047

2011 25,674,681

2010 25,1

45 56

1

2009 24,782,302

2008 24,326,974

2007 23,904,380

2006 23,507,783

2005 22,859,968

2004 22,490,022

2003 22,118,509

584,850

518,625

461 724

402,914

31

4 574

288,909

258,162

248,874

239,940

239,863

2002 21,779,893 224,172

2001 21,325,018 218,670

2000 20,851,

820

215,836

1999

20,044 ,141 203,878

1998

19,759,6

14

183,078

1997

19,439,337 162,597

1996

19,128,261 113,640

AVERAGE

:

2.2382

2.0200

1.8362

1.6258

1.2931

1.2086

1.0982

1.0887

1.0669

1.0844

1.0293

1.0254

1.0351

1.0171

0.9265

0.8364

0.594

1

1.3157

Total Convictions

ggravated ssault

w Deadly Weapon

2,292

2,852

2,765

3,079

2,603

2,600

2,513

2,701

2,632

2

90

1

2,626

2,408

1,767

1,912

1,629

1,468

1,458

1,269

CHl Convictions - Aggravated

Assault w Deadly Weapon %

CHL

Convict ions

10

0.4363

6

4

o

7

9

5

4

4

0.2104

0.1085

0.0974

0.1537

0.0000

0.2786

0.3332

0.1900

0.1724

0.1142

0.1246

0.1132

0.26

15

0.2455

0.2725

0.4801

0.1576

0.2083

A

Texas C

L

holder is approximately

1/6

as

likely to be convicted

of

aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Convictions

of

Texas

HL

Holders for Mur der Negligent Homicide or Manslaugh ter

Total Convictions - Murder CHl Convictions - Murder

Negligent Homicide. Negligent Homicide.

Population

2013 26,640,165

2012 26,130,047

2011 25,674,681

2010 25,

14

5,561

2009 24,782,302

2008 24,326,974

2007 23,904,380

2006 23,507,783

2005 22,859,968

2004 22,490,022

2003 22,118,509

2002 21,779,893

2001 21,325,018

2000 20,851,82 0

1999

20,044,141

1998

19,759,614

1997

19,439,337

1996

19,128,261

CHL

Holders

CHL

Holders

708,048 2.6578

584,850 2.2382

518,625

46

1

724

402 914

31

4 574

288,909

258,162

248,874

239,940

239,863

224,172

21

8 670

215,836

203,878

183,078

162,597

113,640

AVERAGE :

2.0200

1.8362

1.6258

1.2931

1.2086

1.0982

1.0887

1.0669

1.0844

1.0293

1.0254

1.035 1

1.0171

0.9265

0.8364

0

.5

941

1.315

7

Manslaughter

585

660

722

740

649

617

586

543

560

521

449

389

256

145

124

82

99

74

Manslaughter

4

3

7

8

o

o

o

o

o

o

AVERAGE :

CHL Convictions

0.6838

0.4545

0.9695

1.

08

11

0.1541

0.4862

1.1945

0.3683

0.5357

0.0000

0.2227

0.5141

0.0000

0.6897

0.0000

0.000

0

0.0000

0.0000

0.4086

A

Texas CHL holder

is

approximately 1/3 as likely

to

be con

vic

ted of murder negligen t homicide or manslaughter.

Convictions

of

Texas HL Holders for ggravated Sexual ssault

Total Convictions-

CHL

Convictions - Aggravated

Population

CHL

Holders

CHL

Holders

Aggravated Sexual Assault

11

7

157

162

255

202

204

204

173

207

221

30

1

245

178

192

157

191

225

186

2013 26,640,165 708,048 2.6578

2012 26,130,047 584,850 2.2382

2011 25,674,681

2010 25,1

45 56

1

2009 24,782,302

2008 24,326,974

2007 23,904,380

2006 23,507,783

2005 22,859,968

2004 22,490,022

2003 22,118,509

2002 21,779,893

2001 21,325,018

2000 20,851,820

1999

20,044,141

1998

19,759,614

1997

19,439,337

1996

19,128,261

518,625

461

724

402 914

31

4 574

288,909

258,162

248,874

239,940

239,863

224,172

218,670

215,836

203,878

183,078

162,597

113,640

AVERAGE

:

2.0200

1.8362

1.6258

1.2931

1.2086

1.0982

1.0887

1.0669

1.0844

1.0293

1.0254

1.035 1

1.0171

0.926

5

0.8364

0.5941

1.3157

A Texas C

L

holder

is

approximately

1

/5

as

likely to be convict

ed of

aggravated sexual assault.

Populat ion estimates

cou

rtesy of t he T

exas

Department of

Sta

te Hea lth Servi

ces

https: /www.dshs.state.tx.us/CHS/Popdat/Dtl/DTL2014p/

Sexual ssault CHL Convictions

1 0.8547

2 1.2739

o 0.00

00

0.7843

o 0.0

000

o

o

o

o

o

o

o

o

o

o

o

AVERAGE

:

0.0000

0.0000

0.0

000

0.0

000

0.90

50

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.6369

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.2475

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