"Texas Senate touts pig as lipstick"

David Jennings posted an article on a conservative Texas political blog site, Big Jolly Politics, titled "Texas Senate touts pig as lipstick."

Texas Senate passed Senator Glenn Hagar's SB1907, also known as "Campus Carry." The bill allows students with concealed handgun licenses to store their handguns legally in their vehicles on institutions of higher educations' street and parking lots. The House of Representatives have put the senate's bill on their schedule to talk about it, and vote to pass or kill the bill.

Representative Dan Flynn, one of the primary authors of the bill believes the bill will be passed. Most of the opposition party has been in Austin. As a republican bill, the democrats of Austin are against the guns being carried on or around campus.

 Higher education officials fear it will increase campus violence and suicide. When a Texas county's Republican party took to Facebook to praise Senator Hagar's bill, there was clear presents that citizens were against the bill. There were concerns of increase vehicular burglaries in college parking lots. An individual commented, "Ok. Criminals, just hold on a sec while I just run to my car and get the means to defend myself." The person feels the bill would be useless because the weapon wouldn't be on one's person. Jennings feels by allowing guns on to school grounds, it can make other feel uncomfortable and in danger.

David Jennings got his information from Claire Cardona in the Dallas Morning News. Although the written piece was informative, he did not have enough of his own personal writing. He used a lot of quotes from his source. The areas where Jennings did write in his own words were more informal. The pattern of writing reminds me of a written lasagna. There are different alternating layers which consist of dry and straightforward information, and the author's short input in between that was less informal.

 It is clear that Jennings is concerned about the bill. He includes the concerns of people and discuss how it could affect patrons of the schools. The audience intended was probably aimed towards the general public who attends higher educational schools that will be affected by the bill. The purpose of the piece is to make awareness of the bill and how it could affect and endanger college students.