Bathroom carry: Don't forget to wash your hands, grab your guns

[TexasTowelie]

Photo Credit: Connor Murphy

Campus carry certainly is a divisive issue, but nothing unites us quite like our excretory systems. Everyone poops. But when guns are allowed on campus next August, public bathrooms might prove an unlikely mess.

Gun owners are often tempted to remove their holsters and rest their weapons in the various nooks of the stall when they use the restroom, raising the chances of leaving the weapon behind — or worse — accidentally discharging it.

People have found guns in the bathrooms of churches, movie theaters, government buildings, airports and schools. Removing your weapon to drop trou is neither safe nor proper procedure, but then again, there is no proper procedure for gun handling when you “have one in the chamber.” And even one mishap would give serious ammunition (pun intended) to the movement against campus carry.

A member of the U.S. Capitol Police recently forgot his loaded gun in a stall in the Capitol Visitor Center restroom, and it was found by a 7-year-old tourist. This is one of three incidents this year in which a gun was left in a public bathroom by the U.S. Capitol Police. These are professionals charged with the safety of our Congressmen and who carry guns for a living. What will happen when student gun owners — preoccupied with problem sets, parties and pumpkin spice lattes — go between classes?

Read more: http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2015/10/19/bathroom-carry-dont-forget-to-wash-your-hands-grab-your-guns

[Javaman]

1. toilet holsters! nt

[DhhD]

2. If the gun is used in a crime, the owner could be looking at jail time, is my guess. n/t