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The mass murder of twenty first grade children and six adults in Newtown Connecticut was a tragedy beyond comprehension. Unfortunately, the news media is unintentionally increasing the odds that a copycat mass murderer will duplicate the massacre in another school. Since the Newtown shootings on Friday, December 15, 2012, at least three people have been arrested for threatening to enter schools and kill students and faculty. How many more are watching the unending television coverage of this event and dreaming of their “15 minutes of fame?”
Let me say up front that I am not a mental health professional. However, as an attorney for many years and as a former police officer, I have dealt with numerous mentally unstable people. A shared belief with a large percentage of these people is that society, or some identifiable segment thereof, has treated them unfairly. The majority of these folks did not exhibit any tendency towards violence or revenge, but a few made it clear that they felt some form of retribution was an order, even though they stopped short of making actual threats. The bitterness and antisocial behavior seems to be more prominent in people who feel they are ignored or belittled by the society they have come to fear or despise.
The time has come for the Texas legislature to reduce the number of locations that are “off-limits” to holders of a Texas Concealed Handgun License (CHL). At the time Senate Bill 60 passed in 1995, it was considered by some as both a revolutionary and radical concept. This opinion was even by some of the Bill’s supporters in the Texas Legislature. Due to this uncertainty, SB 60 contained many provisions that were ultimately determined to be unnecessary. These provisions included the designation of various locations as being off-limits to CHL’s carrying self-defense handguns.
The media-created hysteria that followed the passage of Texas’ first CHL’s statute in 1995 resulted in thousands of Texas businesses posting generic “no guns” decals. Typically, they were either 2“X2” or 3”X3” clear decals placed on the lower corner of the business’ door. The decals were easily missed by a CHL holder meaning they would unwittingly enter posted property.