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(jì)劃允許學(xué)生和老師在校園中帶槍。超過一半的德克薩斯州眾議院代表已經(jīng)簽署了允許在學(xué)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，可以藏在衣服里或者放在槍套里等等~）
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(xué)院、超過50考研教育網(wǎng)生的規(guī)模而成為了這一議案的主戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)。如果通過，它將成為既猶他州之后第二個(gè)通過如此法律的州。這項(xiàng)提議的支持者用一些校園槍擊案來為自己的觀點(diǎn)辯駁，比如 2007年在弗吉尼亞理工學(xué)院以及2008年在北伊利諾伊大學(xué)發(fā)生的兩起重大槍擊案，他們認(rèn)為學(xué)生抵御一個(gè)持槍者的最好辦法就是自己同樣可以用槍回?fù)簟?/p>
“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：“這是僅僅是為了自衛(wèi)，我不希望再看到任何一所德克薩斯州的學(xué)校重演弗吉尼亞理工學(xué)院的悲劇，讓一些精神錯(cuò)亂想自殺的瘋子進(jìn)入到學(xué)院，輕而易舉地剝奪毫無防衛(wèi)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(xué)校長(zhǎng)William Powers卻反對(duì)允許在學(xué)校非公開攜帶槍支，他說學(xué)生、槍支和校園團(tuán)體組合在一起是極不穩(wěn)定的。自2007年起，允許帶槍的相關(guān)法案已經(jīng)在23個(gè)州被否決，但是槍控激進(jìn)分子認(rèn)為，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。
