Concealed-carry on campus is dead - so what killed it?

What kept concealed handguns at Texas colleges from being legalized by the 81st session of the Texas Legislature?

Here's a prime suspect: Voter ID.

Republican legislators were so hell-bent on passing this repressive and useless law that they scuttled their own time-honored rules of procedure just so they could keep Democrats from blocking a vote on the Voter ID bill.

The result was a five-day filibuster on the House floor, courtesy of Democratic legislators, that stretched over Memorial Day weekend. When the dust settled, Voter ID was dead, but so were hundreds of other bills - including SB 1164.

Democrats played by the rules - their "chubbing" strategy wasn't pretty, but it got the job done. And that means pro-ID Republicans have two years to sit at home and think about their folly at the Capitol that resulted in a host of good laws being scuttled. They have nobody else to blame but themselves.