UT recommends campus carry in classrooms

[Glenn E. Meyer]

http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/u-...c6d994fbd5806c

The debate was that the Texas schools might try to use the provisions in the law to ban most of the campus. Obviously, classrooms are a core issue.

Thus the recommendation is:

The recommendations include, among other things, that:

Handguns not be allowed in on-campus residence halls (except in the case of parents with gun licenses who are visiting their children).
Employees who have their own offices may decide whether or not to allow guns in those spaces.
Guns not be allowed in campus health centers, child-care facilities, or certain laboratories, among other places.

One can argue that you have set up some of those places for targeting. The labs I can see for certain tech reasons. No guns in the MRI.

[Armed_Chicagoan]

"No guns in the MRI."

Not even the plastic ones undetectable by metal detectors like Glocks?

[adamBomb]

I wish they would allow it my university but they will not. most (not all) faculty are strongly opposed to guns. But we do have some faculty (myself included) that are strong 2nd amendment supporters.

[KyJim]

It sounds like a step in the right direction. In my otherwise gun friendly state, the legislature has effectively exempted state universities from the state's constitutional guarantee of open carry by granting the universities the right to ban open carry, even in open, public areas on campus. To my knowledge, nobody has ever challenged this in court.

[Tom Servo]

No guns in the MRI.

That has already been an issue in at least one case. I can see bans in certain specific areas for clear safety reasons.

What this policy does is different. It allows the university to ban guns in so many places that it becomes impossible to carry without violating them.