How Campus Carry Didn’t Kill Academic Freedom

By Tom Knighton

All across the country, the idea of students of legal age being permitted to carry a firearm on a college campus immediately leads to howls of protest. Professors–a group known to lean pretty far left anyway–scream that their lives will be in danger and how they’ll lose their academic freedom because they’ll be too fearful to espouse a controversial opinion to their classes because they won’t know who may be armed.

These fears are predicated on the idea that some number of concealed carriers are actually unhinged mass shooters in the making who are simply waiting for a trigger, something that hasn’t been shown in any of the states who have adopted campus carry.

It’s a topic of some interest over at The College Fix. They make the case that a couple of years after Texas has adopted campus carry, that yes, academic freedom is safe and sound after all.

As the NRA notes, it is “puzzling that [the professors] have refused to comment on the actual fallout of the 2015 law.” It’s actually rather understandable. The campus climate at the University of Texas is almost certainly doing just fine. Academic freedom is as free as it …Read the Rest

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