Lots of Campus Carry News from UT-Austin

[ELB]

Someone please get OCT to stop

Meanwhile, Open Carry Texas head and state senate candidate CJ Grisham had another message for UT faculty opposed to campus carry: just quit.

"Quit your jobs and walk away," Grisham wrote on his group's Facebook page. "You'll shut the school down and if the school is shut down, no one will have a class to go to. If no one has a class to go to, no one will be on campus. If no one is on campus, there won't be any guns there either!! It's foolproof!"

I'm not a fan of OCT but I don't see anything wrong with this particular statement. ...

+1 to VMI77. Reflexively opposing or deriding everything CJ or OCT does because it's CJ or OCT is not any better than some of the stunts OCT has pulled in the past. After all, he is right about constitutional carry, he has been wrong in his tactics to get there. The UT profs and protesters, on the other hand, are just flat wrong, and yes UT (and Texas in general) would be better off without them.

[OneGun]

I wonder if they think UT is gun free today. What elitist progressive morons.

What I have never understood is the thinking that if you post a gun-free zone that criminals will actually obey the sign. President Lincoln abolished slavery, yet it still exists. We use the PC term "Human Trafficking" There are similar bans against drugs, yet we still have too many people addicted to drugs. So, what makes these liberal elitists think that a gun-free zone will protect them?

A gun free zone hasn't stopped a single school shooting yet.

Besides the DPS data shows that CHL holders are the most law abiding citizens in the state.

[MeMelYup]

Faculty and students from the Department of African and African Diaspora studies wrote, "n this country, which devalues black life as one of its founding principles, the expansion of citizens' rights to bear firearms facilitates the violent deaths of Blacks."

"The State and the University have a responsibility to protect and defend those who are most vulnerable. Therefore, we demand that firearms be banned in all spaces occupied by Black people on our campus."

Seriously? When all else fails, play the race card. What if a African American is a license holder and carries a firearm on campus?

SCOTUS has stated that police do not have an obligation to protect individual persons, where does the department of African and African diaspora studies get the idea that the state and university has the obligation to protect "those who are most vulnerable." Evidently they don't believe in protecting themselves.

[Bladed]

According to SCC, this is the mission statement/legal strategy released by Gun Free UT: http://tinyurl.com/oxdmyo5

EXCERPT:

We will most likely never be shot in our offices or classrooms, even if we were to piss off some white male students with sacrilegious ideas about race, empire, evolution, or god. This is a struggle over the meaning of education, the classroom, and open society. This is a struggle over the meaning of trust and community...America has all along been about the sheer display of white male power (with guns): over Indians, over slaves, over females, over Mexicans, over Asians, over African Americans, and over Arabs, now [sic] The return of the vigilante movement is a giant, collective white push back against the Civil Rights Movement and against the unintended consequences of globalization, migration, and demography...This is a battle over our individual right to determine the nature of the community of trust within our classroom, well established by constitutional law. This right has now been challenged, assaulted by a toxic ideology of white racism and libertarianism.

[JALLEN]

You, too, will be assimilated.