Rice University opts out of Texas 'campus carry' gun law

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Rice University opts out of Texas 'campus carry' gun law
Reuters
By Jon Herskovitz
11 hours ago

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Rice University, one of the most prestigious private colleges in Texas, said on Monday it would opt out of a law due to go into effect next year that allows people with licenses for concealed handguns to bring them on campus.

University President David Leebron said in an email to students, faculty and staff of the Houston-based school that Rice would be a gun-free campus.

Leebron said the decision had been made after consultations with students, faculty, alumni and staff as well as university police and parents of students in which many said allowing firearms would make the school less safe and harm its reputation, he wrote. Rice has an enrollment of about 6,600.

Supporters of the so-called "campus carry" law enacted by the Republican-controlled Texas legislature have said that schools would be safer by having more guns in more places, with the firearms held by those who have gone through the requirements needed for a concealed handgun permit.





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[marym625]

1. Good

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Just what this country needs, drunk kids with guns.

Wtf is going on in this country? Thank goodness there are some same people left

[GGJohn]

3. Of all the other universities that allow for the carrying of firearms on campus

guess how many instances there have been of drunk students carrying firearms?
Exactly none, so what makes you think that it would be any different on a TX college campus.

Rice University is a private campus, they have every right to ban firearms on their campus as long as they don't receive any state funds, however, if they do receive state funds, then they're going to lose the case in court.

[marshall]

9. They could try declaring themselves a day care center

That is how the Fort Worth Zoo is attempting to do in order to dodge the law. The validity of that argument will eventually also be decided by a court.

[hack89]

4. It won't stop anyone carrying a gun on campus

not the ones that you need to worry about.

[marble falls]

2. And Rice is no bunch of liberals.

[onehandle]

7. Brains > Gun Loons nt

[GOLGO 13]

5. Traitors to the TEXAS way of life!

So they frightened by the very Frankenstein they wanted?

[Paladin]

6. Get back to us with something coherent.

And way to go, Rice.

[Gothmog]

8. Good for Rice

Private schools/colleges have this right but not pubic universities