Guns on Campus

In case you missed it, the University of Houston, Texas, has asked its faculty to be especially sensitive and perhaps remove certain topics from their syllabi — all because Texas now has a new bill that allows anyone to carry a concealed weapon on campus.

The fear is that students who do not like the class conversation will, presumably, whip out a handgun and make a point with a few shots for emphasis.

I’m a college professor. Sometimes I have to relay things to students that might be hard for them to hear. Sometimes I even have to fail them, which neither of us actually likes.

Fortunately I don’t live in Texas, or I might be scared by all this gun toting.

What it amounts to is this: the NRA now is in a position to hold us all to ransom.

The Land of the Free just took another step to becoming the Land of the Silenced.