美國德克薩斯州50萬名學生將獲准帶槍上學

Texas is preparing to give college students and staff the right to carry guns on campus. More than half of the Texas House of Representatives have signed a measure allowing concealed handguns at universities.
美國德克薩斯州正計劃允許學生和老師在校園中帶槍。超過一半的德克薩斯州衆議院代表已經簽署了允許在學院中非公開攜帶槍支的議案。（concealed handguns就指所攜帶槍支不能讓其他人看見，可以藏在衣服裏或者放在槍套裏等等~）

Texas has become a prime battleground for the issue because of its gun culture and its size, with 38 public universities and more than 500,000 students. It would become the second state, after Utah, to pass such a law. Supporters of the move argue that gun violence on campuses, such as the mass shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007 and Northern Illinois in 2008, show that the best defence against a gunman is students who can shoot back.
德克薩斯州因其自身的槍支文化，以及38所公立學院、超過50萬學生的規模而成爲了這一議案的主戰場。如果通過，它將成爲既猶他州之後第二個通過如此法律的州。這項提議的支持者用一些校園槍擊案來爲自己的觀點辯駁，比如2007年在弗吉尼亞理工學院以及2008年在北伊利諾伊大學發生的兩起重大槍擊案，他們認爲學生抵禦一個持槍者的最好辦法就是自己同樣可以用槍回擊。

"It's strictly a matter of self-defence," said Jeff Wentworth, a Republican state senator. "I don't ever want to see repeated on a Texas college campus what happened at Virginia Tech, where some deranged, suicidal madman goes into a building and is able to pick off totally defenceless kids like sitting ducks."
共和黨州議員Jeff Wentworth說：“這是僅僅是爲了自衛，我不希望再看到任何一所德克薩斯州的學校重演弗吉尼亞理工學院的悲劇，讓一些精神錯亂想自殺的瘋子進入到學院，輕而易舉地剝奪毫無防衛的孩子們的生命。”

The president of Texas University, William Powers, has opposed concealed handguns on campus, saying the mix of students, guns and campus parties is too volatile. Previous laws have been rejected in 23 states since 2007, but gun-control activists say it will be difficult to stop the Texas bill passing this year. The Senate passed a similar bill in 2009 and is expected to do so again.
德克薩斯大學校長William Powers卻反對允許在學校非公開攜帶槍支，他說學生、槍支和校園團體組合在一起是極不穩定的。自2007年起，允許帶槍的相關法案已經在23個州被否決，但是槍控激進分子認爲，今年很難阻止德克薩斯州通過這一議案。在2009年，德克薩斯州參議院就通過了類似的法案，如今他們打算再來一回。