Lest We Forget: August 1, 1966, University of Texas-Austin, 13 dead, 30 wounded

 
Texas Lawmakers Pass a Bill Allowing Guns on Colleges.  (The New York Times, 6/2/2015)

Texas legislators arrange a bizarre golden anniversary

At the University of Texas at Austin, interviews with more than a dozen students Tuesday found little support for campus carry. The university was the scene of the nation’s first campus mass shooting on Aug. 1, 1966, when a sniper, Charles Whitman, fired at people from the school’s clock tower in a day of violence that left 16* people dead. The campus-carry law will take effect there Aug. 1, 2016, exactly 50 years later.

*The numbers vary:

• Rampage 
• Texas Monthly (numbers used in blog post title)