BY GLYNIS CRAWFORD SMITH
THE HIGHLANDER
The Campus Carry Law (Texas Senate Bill 11) went into effect Monday, Aug. 1, and colleges and universities across the state posted the new advisory allowing concealed handguns on campus, including the Texas Tech University (TTU) and Central Texas College (CTC) campus in Marble Falls.
By coincidence, that day fell on the 50th anniversary of the 1966 University of Texas (UT) Main Building Tower shootings. What is widely considered the nation's introduction to mass murder, or campus shootings at the least, was witnessed in part by Marble Falls High School graduates, attending summer classes or orientation on campus. And, the city like others across the nation were riveted to the reports from KTBC by the young Neal Spelce and Gordon Smith and mourned with news director Paul Bolton when his grandson's name was found among the 13 who died after Charles Whitman found is mark in 43 people shot on the campus mall.
