Texas allows guns in college classrooms under new law

[YukonGlocker]

Update on the Professors' lawsuit: http://beta.dallasnews.com/news/pol...their-classrooms-will-punished-ut-lawyer-says.

 

[OKCHunter]

Update on the Professors' lawsuit: http://beta.dallasnews.com/news/pol...their-classrooms-will-punished-ut-lawyer-says.

Good. They have no right to restrict the rights of others.

 

[Larry Morgan]

Good. They have no right to restrict the rights of others.

Agreed. The laws would have those who carried on campus potentially punished when it was not legal to do so. Now, with protection under the law, those who restrict the right will the ones punished. That's how it's supposed to work.

If you don't like that, try to talk to your representatives to get the law changed
Hahah, sorry, I couldn't help myself.

 

[Sanford]

The self-appointed intelligentsia seems to be full of individuals "educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought".

 

[OKCHunter]

...If you don't like that, try to talk to your representatives to get the law changed
Hahah, sorry, I couldn't help myself.

Yep, or leave. Go get a job in some "safe place" country.

 

[MadDogs]

The self-appointed intelligentsia seems to be full of individuals "educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought".

I used to work for a guy who used to refer to those individuals (myself at times included) as having "one too many days of college".

 

[rawhide]

This discussion reminded me of this one http://www.okshooters.com/threads/the-mind-of-an-academic-anti-gun-professor.209200/
prompted by this article by an anti-gun professor
http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversa...classroom/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

 

[458 SOCOM]

Of course there will be someone carrying a larger caliber dildo than needed, and literally fall prey to the "mine is bigger than yours" syndrome......but I digress.

 

[YukonGlocker]

Update: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/j...junction-to-block-guns-from-classrooms/113661

 

[Dale00]

This article is more meaty:https://www.insidehighered.com/news...s-academic-freedom-challenge-campus-carry-law

The judge added that he "searched" for evidence of an academic freedom right as asserted by the professors -- going back to the ratification of the Constitution. He wrote that he could find "no precedent" for the idea that faculty members have "a right of academic freedom so broad that it allows them such autonomous control of their classrooms -- both physically and academically -- that their concerns override decisions of the Legislature and the governing body of the institution that employs them."

In other words, the faculty members who brought the suit are idiots.

More idiocy in the comments:

• Christopher Warburton • a day ago
  Stop teaching in Texas. Let the judges hang their robes and go into the war zones of classrooms, where guns will outnumber textbooks. Disgraceful!
  
  
• Nibhaz • a day ago
• Spoken like someone who has never stepped foot in a real war zone. Your analogy is laughable at best.
  
  
• Philogenes • a day ago
  That would be "set foot."
  
  
• Christopher Warburton • a day ago
  If you have a modicum of common sense, you will know that war zones are places where you will find a proliferation of guns and where scores are settled not by laughs, but by shoot outs.
  
  
  Nibhaz • a day ago
  I'm fully aware of what the modern battlefield is like and a college classroom, even with concealed carry, isn't even in the same universe as implied by your original statement. Only someone who has spent their life in the safety of their ivory tower would think the danger is comparable in any way.
  
  BTW there are these things called rules of engagement in modern warfare and "score settling" via wild west shoot outs are a figment of your imagination and Hollywood.