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Greenlit: Guns on Campus: Tamron Hall Investigates, Investigation Discovery

Guns on Campus: Tamron Hall Investigates – August 1, 1966. Standing atop the University of Texas at Austin iconic clock tower, 25-year-old engineering student Charles Whitman holds a high powered rifle and sprays the campus with gunfire for a terrifying 96 minutes. By day’s end, Whitman and 16 others are dead. The carnage constitutes the first major shooting on an American campus. This August, on the 50^th anniversary of the Tower Shooting, the University of Texas at Austin is confronted with a very different challenge: implementing SB11, the latest gun law out of the Texas Legislature that allows students to carry concealed weapons on campus and in classrooms.

In this groundbreaking and revealing one-hour special, Tamron Hall visits the campus of University of Texas Austin to speak to first-responders and witnesses of the 1966 Tower Shooting, as well as the current stakeholders of SB11. From Chancellor William McRaven – a former Navy SEAL who helped plot the raid that killed Osama bin Laden – to university professors, to students who hold views on all sides of the issue, Hall investigates the importance of securing one’s personal safety, and the rights of students over the age of 21 to carry concealed weapons on public property.

The conversation doesn’t stop in Texas. In a powerful interview, Hall brings together Virginia Tech survivor and anti-gun violence advocate Colin Goddard, and University of Nevada rape survivor, Amanda Collins, who is an advocate for campus carry, to lay out their positions behind this controversial debate among college campuses. 

Platform: Investigation Discovery

Producer: Peacock Productions

TX: 7th August 2016

Source: Discovery press release