No Guns on Campus.

 Senate Bill 11 provides that license holders may carry a concealed handgun throughout university campuses, starting Aug 1, 2016. Even though many students, staff, alumni and parents oppose guns in the classrooms, offices, dormitories and on UT campus, Texas legislators sponsored this law, and finally Texas legislation allowed license holders to carry concealed firearms on campus, in dormitories or other residential facilities.

 I strongly disagree with this idea that more guns make us safer. Also, I do not think that concealed handgun licenses have had any impact on crime rates.

 First of all, the presence of firearms will lead to an increase in accidental shootings. There are many cases being reported where students shoot people in their access, and in many cases end their own lives. Moreover, studies show that over half of college students contemplate committing suicide, and I think that the presence of firearms has a close relation to the chance of suicide by firearms.

 On top of that, guns disrupt the academic atmosphere of a university. If you are sitting in a class knowing that your classmates or your professor might be armed, that must alter the environment. In the same way, for professors and teaching assistants, lecturing in front of hundreds of students knowing that some of them are potentially armed encroaches upon the atmosphere of the classroom.

 I believe that college students and professors should not have to deal with guns on campus, and Texas legislation should not allow people to carry firearms on campus.