“What I told our committee on the first day that we met was that whether you are for or against campus carry, that ship has sailed”, said Eric Fritsch, a University of North Texas criminal justice professor who is leading his school’s campus carry task force.
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A strong majority of speakers at the University of Texas at Austin’s first campus carry forum on Wednesday night voiced concern about the contentious law that will allow licensed Texans to carry concealed handguns in campus buildings.
Associated Press Professor Ann Cvetkovich waits to speak during the forum.
University of Texas at Austin students and staff will give their two cents on Texas’ law allowing people to carry concealed handguns on campus.
As it is written, the legislation allows for university presidents to make “reasonable rules [and] regulations” when it comes to allowing guns on their campuses.
According to an email sent to the UT community and provided to TheBlaze, a Campus Carry Policy Working Group has convened to make recommendations to President Gregory L. Fenves.
Please join us this Thursday at noon at UT’s West Mall to protest campus carry and the legislators who voted for it. Campus Reform reported that a “faculty member at another university” wrote that the Second Amendment applied only to members of the National Guard. Those judgements then will be assessed by everyone schools’ pin boards of regents, who are capable choose to really adapt all of them. Researchers at Texas A&M University have shown that concealed handgun licenses have had no impact on crime rates.
Senate Bill 11, or maybe physical campus take invoice continues to be faced with a few comparison. They say having a license to carry is not enough.
The measure goes into effect for four-year schools in fall 2016; junior colleges get an extra year to prepare.
Students should have a say about what happens on their own campus. Through a rapidly growing network of hundreds of student-led chapters at colleges, universities and high schools, Active Minds increases students’ awareness of mental health issues, provides resources regarding mental health and mental illness, and encourages students to seek help as soon as it is needed.
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Public colleges and universities across the state have held similar meetings – or plan to do so in the near future.
