ummmmmmm well technically she was living off campus, But I take your point. 6 years ago even when she did live on campus the pistol was in a small hand safe hidden but she could still get to it, I do believe in the past 6 years the laws have gotten severely tightened, not only here but also in Texas (and most states) where she is in Graduate School. But again she live off campus. I do believe though that there may be some grey area about rifles and shot guns during hunting season, but that not the point and it is still a pistol and not a long gun.
But you know what? It still boils down to common sense and paranoia. I really don't know how old this saying is but it goes this way: "I would rather be judged by 12 then carried by 6" and if you think I am going to trust the campus pecan patrol to protect my daughter in this day and age when Military guards, Security personal and the general population can't keep whack jobs from strolling around willy nilly carring rifles and shooting whomever they want, than someone is mistaken. We can't be with our children night and day 24/7, and when they grow up and go off to college or even the mall we can't do anything to save them like we may have when they were younger. But we dang sure can give them all the information and help we can to protect themselves. If we fail to do that then we fail as parents. My daughter became a Life Member of the NRA when she was 16. She has been trained how to use a weapon and how to check it and clean it. I suspect you have trained your daughter as well. Keep in mind 2 things.
First) The primary cause for a stop and search has never been a concealed weapon. Because if it was concealed then no one could have possible seen it. Therefore the charge of carrying a concealed weapon is generally always a secondary charge as it was found during a search after a probable cause stop. If the police see the weapon and that is the reason for the stop and you don't have a CC then the charge should change to carring a dangerous weapon without a permit, or possion of a weapon by a felon. disturbing the peace but it can not be a charge of concealed weapon. Since it was in plain view at the time. It obviously wasn't concealed so they can't charge carrying a concealed weapon.
Second) I may not be able to protect my daughter anymore but I can see to it that she can protect herself, since relying on anyone else is a nonlinear idea. And as long as no one knows she has a weapon, she jeeps that strictly to herself then if she has to use it instead of being raped or killed or both then she can and everything after that is solvable. I would rather pay a lawyer what ever it takes up to and including selling everthing and living on the street, then pay a funeral home to bury her, or a physiologist to help get her head straight after the attack. or for physical therapy because she was hurt physically and mentally.
I have also taken the time to teach my daughter every single vulnerable and the most damaging or painfull spots are on a person. I have also taken it one step further by drilling into her that just because she got her assailant down, running away is NOT the correct procedure, If he or she was armed then she (my daughter)needs to secure that weapon, then she should stand there scream for help or call 911 from her cell if she still has it or it's close enough that she can get it without letting the assailant get up even part way. And do whatever it takes to keep the assailant down, kicking them just behind the ear is pretty effective.
The main reason IMHO that people get hurt or killed is that they as so civilised that the thought of doing damage to another person simply doesn't occur to them. Problem is the assailant is no longer civilised and to survive you had best meet them on their own or better terms if you want to survive. Here is what my graduating class at the Sheriffs Academy took up as our motto. It is one of those saying that you see on cop mugs and t-shirts and such. "Take no guff, cut no slack, just hook 'em and book'em and don't look back". It sounds pretty damn heartless and uncivilised, but think of it this way, if the bad guy had even the slightest chance he wouldn't hesitate a spilt second to kill you if he could even if it meant he it would help him get away. As for the bleeding heats let me point you to the Peace Corps, working in both the US and abroad, the Amnesty International Organization, Several Religious groups, Doctors Without Boarders. Green Peace and countless others that have had members killed, executed (yes I know killled and executed both mean dead, but one happens quickly and the other is done in a timely but less impulsive way), raped , tortured and sold into slavery trying to help those same "poor misunderstood folks that acted out and nothing they did was their fault, Society had failed them" folks.
You know what ever single manjack and woman's primary job is in life? It's to get home at the end of their day alive so they can be with their families and hope they are there when their families need them the most. And when you are attacked it's simply becomes a matter of common sense, whether you have a chance to do win or simply except the fact that the bad guy this time has the upper hand. Know when to pick your battles and never be a hero, unless you know beyond a doubt that if you don't even try you are going to die, or someone other than the bad guy will. And the most important thing to remember is that in a confrontation the rule of law no longer applies. The bad guys sure as heck aren't concerned about it. and you had best not be yourself.
Anyone that reads this can take it or leave it, if you choose to take any of this to heart then you do so on your own. I simply stated what I personally believe in and what I am trained to do. If you google any of this I give you even odds you will find sourses and classes or at least demostraions on what I am talking about. Not one thing I have said is for anyone even remotely squmish, because if you are not commited to doing what ever it takes to keep yourself and or the lives of others safe then don't even think of trying anything you find on the net. So as I said. Nothing here is or was, nor should be taken in anyway other than personal opinion and thoughts. Do not try anyhting I said unless you have the background,. And even then, it's still your call.
