Texas attorney general says professors face discipline if they ban guns

[question everything]

Source: FoxNews

College professors in Texas could face disciplinary measures if they prohibit handguns to be brought into their classrooms, state Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday.

Paxton filed a motion this week to dismiss a federal lawsuit brought last month by three professors at the University of Texas at Austin seeking to block the campus carry law, which took effect Aug.1.

Texas has allowed licensed concealed handguns in public since 1995 but had previously made college buildings off limits.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/10/texas-attorney-general-says-professors-face-discipline-if-ban-guns.html

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Sorry for the source but the others were not familiar to me..

[olddad56]

1. Time for the professors to take a stand.

[cab67]

2. as a professor and proud UT-Austin grad....

...Paxton can kiss my ass.

[jpak]

3. In Texas, the 2A apparently Trumps the 1A

yup

[padfun]

4. Is this from the onion?

I mean really? Some idiot thinks it's just fine to have a bunch of hormonal challenged teens to be in a crowded room and be armed?

Twilight Zone!! Seriously!!

[walkingman]

5. Time for Paxton to resign. He has been indicted for 3 felonies already and

the voters knew it before he was elected. Stupidistan - Lone Brain Cell State

[Feeling the Bern]

6. Texas, Florida, Arizona. . .three way race for which state is the USA's biggest black eye

I lean towards Arizona, simply because I'm from there and we have that shitstain Arpaio!

[Lithos]

11. Yeah, you guys do not have Austin...

However, I think our top officials are loonier than yours...

[greymattermom]

12. I'm a professor in Kansas

and yes, guns are allowed in the classroom in the medical school.

[question everything]

13. And if one is discharged by accident - as it will happen

you will have many guns going at once, people shooting at each other.

Wonderful.

[Lithos]

14. How does that work exactly

Have you had a student you feared and had to call campus security as a result? How does that work with residency and/or hospital practicums?

[LisaM]

7. Right, because we haven't screwed up the teaching profession at colleges enough already.

Let's just throw this in. That'll help attract talent.

[Cryptoad]

8. I would move,,,,,

Right now , TX is a dead end for teaching at all levels.........I hear they don't pay that well either......

[a la izquierda]

19. I'm doing a contingency plan...

Because WV can't help but try hard to be the dumbest state in the nation (for its politics). I'm sure guns on campus is what the legislation will be this year...and I'll tender my resignation

[farmbo]

9. Texas... Is it too late to give it back to Mexico?

What the hey...we'll pay them to take it... If they'll carve out Austin & San Antonio.

[Lithos]

15. To be honest...

El Paso, Houston, Ft. Worth and Dallas proper are not bad - the suburbs suck... Austin has the same issue with Wilco and Hayes...

L-

[agingdem]

28. I live in El Paso

My granddaughter will be a freshman at UT...with open carry I'm terrified!

[Lithos]

31. She should be fine

The law itself is stupid and will have minimal effect to the campus situation. No long guns, and only handguns with a concealed weapons permit that requires the person be 21 years old.

The law is stupid because people who are going to cause trouble are going to do it anyway. What it is going to do is make it much harder for Campus security and city cops to distinguish between good and bad people when a situation does happen. This is a pandering by our Lege who would rather spend State money and time on these stupid issues than solving real ones.

I believe UT has a very good phone-based emergency alert system when there are issues. I would make sure she has this setup. I would also make sure she understands how to live on an urban campus, especially at night.

L-

[Akicita]

10. If concealed carry has worked int he rest of the state without the carnage expected by many then why

not try it on college campuses? No more soft targets for terrorists.

[question everything]

16. Not sure how much "it has worked"

These are not experienced law enforcers. You will have a gun discharge by accident - does happen - or someone panic because he thought he heard a gun shot, and the next thing you have people shooting at each other.

This will happen. Someday, someplace. Not that it will change anyone's mind.

[Akicita]

17. Concealed carry has a track record in Texas. So far no big uptick in murders by concealed carry

holders. Why then not try it on soft targets like college campuses where terrorists are likely to strike?

[msongs]

18. how nice, the world consists of gun owners and "soft targets" nt

[montana_hazeleyes]

20. I'm sincerely curious. Who are the terrorists you are talking about?

In most of the school shootings, they were done by local, white young men. I remember back to Charles Whitman in Texas in the sixties. There have been many, of those. Are those the terrorists you are speaking about?

[Akicita]

27. Anyone, foreign or domestic, who would attack a school or other soft target to try and kill as many

innocents as they can.

[friendly_iconoclast]

23. "This will happen. Someday, someplace." That claim has been made at DU for years

For example:

OK so at present there may be no confirmable media accounts.
But to think it will never happen is just hiding ones head in the sand. It will happen and
it may happen to you.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x382537#382616

That was five years ago

Why, then, hasn't it happened already at colleges where it's already legal?
Guns on campuses for legal permit holders has been legal for years at state
colleges and universities in Washington, Alaska, and Utah.

AFAIK, there haven't been problems in these places, and this has been discussed at length
for years here at DU:

What *empirical* evidence do you have that legal CCW weapons at colleges are harmful?

And, yes, in this instance I am looking for confirmable media accounts.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x382537#382537

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x382537#382616

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x417737#417743

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php/http:/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x322788

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php/http:/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x322788

[LanternWaste]

25. No doubt, elementary schools are soft targets as well...

"No more soft targets for terrorists..."

No doubt, elementary schools are soft targets as well...

[Historic NY]

21. Can you bring a gun to the AG office?

[SwankyXomb]

30. Of course not

Politicians don't want gun people near them, those guys are nuts!

[TipTok]

22. Rightfully so...

The class doesn't belong to them.

If it's legal, it's legal.

[LanternWaste]

26. Hence the reason prohibition was morally and ethically correct.

"If it's legal, it's legal...."

Hence the reason prohibition was morally and ethically correct... unless of course, we realize that simplistic bumper-stickers are not a valid form of argument but rather, a ripe target of mocking by the rational mind.

[TipTok]

29. There are legitimate ways to change policy and laws...

There are even ways to ethically disobey them as long as you are willing to take the consequences.

What people don't have the right to do is enforce their beliefs about a legal activity on other people.

[Loki]

24. Because every CCW person has had such intensive, intensive and monthly training to

maintain their skills, they all think they are a one man/woman SWAT team. Just in case