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A University of Texas professor opposed to campus carry says he will put a note in his fall syllabus informing armed concealed permit holders they are not welcome to take his classes.

Georgia state representatives Rick Jasperse (R-Jasper) and Mandi Ballinger (R-Canton) have introduced legislation that will allow concealed carry permit holders to carry guns on college campuses for self-defense.

Alabama state Representative Mack Butler (R-Etowah County) has introduced legislation to guarantee concealed carry on college and university campuses.

On January 13, Arizona state Representative Sonny Borrelli (R-Lake Havasu City) introduced campus carry as a way to prevent mass shootings on college campuses in the state.

Texas public universities cannot ban guns in dormitories because it violates Senate Bill 11, said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a nonbinding opinion Monday about the new state law known as “campus carry.” This came in response to a request (RQ-0076-KP) filed by state Sen. Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury), the bill’s author.

On December 16, school board members in Keene, Texas, voted not simply to allow armed teachers, but also to provide the handguns teachers will carry.

Florida public colleges are requesting $74 million to “fortify” school grounds in expectation of state approval for a “campus carry” guns-rights law.

As Gun Free UT suggests that campus carry is all about whites dominating people of other races, UT-Dallas graduate student Antonia Okafor — an African American woman — counters by pointing out that her focus in carrying a gun will be self-defense, not to advance the supremacy of any one race over another.

On November 13, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) vowed to veto a bill designed to allow individuals with an enhanced concealed carry permit to carry in numerous public gun-free zones.

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke slammed Wisconsin Democrats’ determined efforts to block campus-carry for self-defense in the state’s universities, even as Americans continuously try to expand personal freedoms.

National “Big Higher Education” lobbyist organizations joined forces to gang up on Texas in an anti-campus carry statement that zeroed in on the University of Texas (UT) at Austin where days ago, activist Gun Free UT lawyered up in an effort to thwart the implementation of the new state law.

On November 10 the Los Angeles Times reported that some universities in Texas are assessing how and where they can create gun free zones to keep law-abiding students with concealed handgun licenses (CHLs) from carrying guns for self-defense.

Federal agencies are taking an increased interest in the Nov. 4 mass stabbing on the University of California Merced campus because of the manner in which the stabber was dressed and the discovery of “a printout of an image of an [ISIS] flag” in his belongings, according to new reports.

As Yale students demand greater administrative oversight to sustain the “safe spaces” on their campus, University of Oklahoma professor David Deming is denouncing the threats inherent to college campuses and seeking the ability to carry a gun for self-defense.

On November 8, University of Oklahoma Professor David Deming contended that “self-defense is a basic human right” that does not end where the campus begins.

The November 4 mass stabbing at University of California Merced comes just weeks after Governor Jerry Brown (D) barred concealed carry permit holders from carrying guns on campus for self-defense.

On November 2, Florida state Representative David Kerner (D-Lake Worth) voiced his opposition to campus carry by suggesting that being armed for self-defense on campus goes “way beyond the simple bearing of arms” protected by the Second Amendment. Kerner’s opposition to

On October 13, Breitbart News reported that Wisconsin state representative Jesse Kremer (R-Kewaskum) and state senator Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostburg) are pushing a bill to expand campus carry into college buildings and classrooms in Wisconsin and to change it from strictly open carry to concealed carry as well.

On November 1, University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling denounced Republican lawmakers’ efforts to expand campus carry in her state in the wake of the Umpqua Community College (UCC) shooting by suggesting armed law-abiding students won’t “prevent anything.”

Christy Stutzman is a wife, former teacher, and mother, who believes the “senseless acts of violence” often perpetrated on school campuses with a gun can be remedied not by taking away guns, but by taking away gun-free zones. To that end, Stutzman is rallying with other mothers around the country to launch Mothers Against Gun-Free Zones.

Republican lawmakers in Florida and Michigan are currently pushing legislation to make it legal for concealed pistol license (CPL) holders to carry guns on college and university campuses for self-defense.

Retired University of Texas (UT) Economics professor Daniel S. Hamermesh had agreed to teach through 2017 to give the school time to find his replacement, but he is now cutting ties to protest the new campus carry laws in the state of Texas.

During October 20 testimony on the campus carry legislation currently under consideration by Florida lawmakers, University of Miami law professor Mary Anne Franks contended that allowing women to be armed for self-defense will not accomplish much because they cannot use guns effectively.

In the wake of the October 1 attack in the gun-free facilities of Umpqua Community College, the University of Maryland has released active shooter response guidelines that advise students to “run” and “hide.”

In the wake of the heinous October 1 attack on unarmed students at Umpqua Community College, three of Wisconsin’s Democrat state representatives are pushing to make campus carry for self-defense a Class I felony.

More than 50 professors from the University of Texas at Austin have signed a letter protesting campus carry on the campus. Breitbart Texas reported on October 8th that an economics professor emeritus from the University of Texas in Austin resigned expressing in his resignation letter, a fear that law abiding students with concealed handguns might shoot him.

In the wake of the October 1 shooting that left nine dead at Umpqua Community College (UCC), Princeton University has announced that it will be augmenting its policy on gun-free Department of Public Safety officers so as to provide those officers access to rifles that can be used in the event of an attack.

On October 12 Wisconsin state representative Jesse Kremer (R-Kewaskum) and state senator Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostburg) put forth a bill that would expand campus carry to buildings and classrooms on college campuses.

This might restore a little of your hope for America’s future: In an exclusive conversation with Breitbart News, three students from Umpqua Community College show more common sense about guns and safety on college campuses than mainstream Democratic politicians.

A group of anti-Second Amendment students is launching a protest at the University of Texas by which they plan to show their disapproval of campus carry by carrying sex toys in plain sight on the same day that carrying a concealed weapon in class becomes legal.

Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed a law Saturday that bars law-abiding, licensed citizens from carrying guns on campuses in California for self-defense.

Daniel Hamermesh, who left his position as a professor at the University of Texas due to Texas’ campus carry legislation argued the law will “lead to a much higher grade[s] for students, because who wants to give a student a

On October 9 Charles Haywood–Purdue University associate professor of business law–contended that “the common sense solution” to campus shootings is campus carry, a mechanism that allows students and faculty the legal avenue of being armed on campus for self-defense.

On October 8, Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson lamented the actions through which Adolf Hitler rendered the Jewish people defenseless and he contended that armed Jews could have curtailed the Holocaust.

An economics professor emeritus from the University of Texas in Austin has resigned. His reason expressed in a resignation letter, a fear that law abiding students with a concealed handgun might shoot him.

On October 6, Ben Carson took heat from GOP establishment candidates and liberal political action committees for saying that he would “not just stand there” and let a gunman shoot at him unchallenged.