![]() ![]() The law touched off heated debate in Austin, with several professors recently filing a complaint in federal court to block the law before classes begin Aug. Monday also marks the day when Texas’ new campus carry law goes into effect, allowing license holders to carry concealed handguns at public universities in the state, including UT Austin. “We were not used to the idea that a person would do something like this and not give a damn whether he was going to live or die.” “This was the largest mass murder of its kind up until then,” he said. ![]() But it was the UT tower shooting that ushered the nation into the harsh reality of mass shooters ready to kill and be killed, said Gary Lavergne, author of A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders. Since then, the way police and health officials respond to mass shootings has evolved and similar shootings have scarred the nation in places like Columbine, Virginia Tech University, Newtown and Orlando. AUSTIN – Fifty years ago Monday, Charles Whitman, a 25-year-old engineering student and former Marine, climbed to the top of the tower at the University of Texas at Austin with an arsenal of high-powered weapons and began killing.įor 96 terrifying minutes, Whitman fired below at students and passersby, killing at least 16 people and injuring 31 in what became known as the first mass murder of its kind in America. ![]()
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