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Guns on campus: Texas students weigh in (video)

Fifty years after a gunman opened fire from the tower at UT-Austin – the first recorded mass shooting in U.S. history – students can carry loaded handguns on campus. Hear from proponents and opponents of the law.

By Joanne Elgart Jennings, Independent Lens on PBS
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Fifty years after a gunman opened fire from the tower at the University of Texas in Austin – the first recorded mass shooting in U.S. history – students can now carry loaded handguns on campus. Hear from proponents and opponents of the new law, which affects all public universities in the state.

 

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