Texas become one of the eight states to pass this law, and it came into effect August first at four year universities. Many students who attend community colleges or private universities have the option to opt out, because the campus carry law will not go to effect for them until 2017. This law is very controversial, and many students worry about their safety. Campus carry is for any student who is twenty-one and older, and has a concealed handgun permit, and also has passed a classroom course and gun range training course. That is how they are able to have guns in classrooms, dorms, and university buildings, but the rules on where to have their weapon can be different depending on the campuses. The date they choose to allow weapons on campus
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Many of the “Special interest groups, like the American Association of University Professors, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation’s second largest teacher’s union and a prolific education lobbyist, signed the statement opposing campus carry.” The letter clearly states that having firearm is an interference to safety and having weapons in our presence makes it unharmonious to the students and staffs educational missions. They also wrote that “College campuses are marketplaces of ideas, and a rigorous academic exchange of ideas may be chilled by the presence of weapons. Students and faculty members will not be comfortable discussing controversial subjects if they think there might be a gun in the room.” The Chancellor of University of Texas also opposed the campus carry law saying that weapons make the environment less safe and would reduce free speech. The interest groups all want campuses as safe and weapon free, and want the staff students and community members to feel that college is a safe place to be. They want the law enforcements, like police or campus security to handle any accidents or emergency issues happening on campuses. The four special interest groups that I mentioned want the state legislature to stay out of any decision making that is associated with the academic’s and leave that to the academic community. Not only have these groups spoke out about opposing with the campus carry law, but many professors all around voice their opinions on how having weapons in classrooms, and dorms makes it unsafe and scary for many of their lives and the lives of other students as well, and that’s why many teachers prohibit having weapons brought into their office rooms. Reading, I saw that not many interest groups that are from the
Many of the “Special interest groups, like the American Association of University Professors, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation’s second largest teacher’s union and a prolific education lobbyist, signed the statement opposing campus carry.” The letter clearly states that having firearm is an interference to safety and having weapons in our presence makes it unharmonious to the students and staffs educational missions. They also wrote that “College campuses are marketplaces of ideas, and a rigorous academic exchange of ideas may be chilled by the presence of weapons. Students and faculty members will not be comfortable discussing controversial subjects if they think there might be a gun in the room.” The Chancellor of University of Texas also opposed the campus carry law saying that weapons make the environment less safe and would reduce free speech. The interest groups all want campuses as safe and weapon free, and want the staff students and community members to feel that college is a safe place to be. They want the law enforcements, like police or campus security to handle any accidents or emergency issues happening on campuses. The four special interest groups that I mentioned want the state legislature to stay out of any decision making that is associated with the academic’s and leave that to the academic community. Not only have these groups spoke out about opposing with the campus carry law, but many professors all around voice their opinions on how having weapons in classrooms, and dorms makes it unsafe and scary for many of their lives and the lives of other students as well, and that’s why many teachers prohibit having weapons brought into their office rooms. Reading, I saw that not many interest groups that are from the