UT shooting comes just as Austin campus debates concealed weapons law

By Patrik Jonsson

"The University of Texas at Austin, the site of one of the worst campus shootings in US history, came close to another tragedy Tuesday as a ski-mask wearing gunman fired several shots on campus before taking his own life. No one else was hurt."

"The national debate on the issue was spurred largely by the 2007 shooting at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, in which 32 people were killed. Yet UT is also familiar with campus shootings. In 1966, a sniper shooting from UT's iconic clock tower killed 14 students. ..."

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