Posted August 9, 2016 8:06 pm by Comments

By Dean Weingarten

Patricia C. Ohlendorf Vice President for Legal Affairs

The lawsuit filed by two University of Texas professors and a Teaching Assistant Professor was heard in court on 4 August, 2016, in Austin Texas. The lawsuit is meant to prevent the exercise of the Second Amendment on campus. The lawsuit is full of irrational rants. I expected it to be thrown out. Here are a couple of excerpts:

33. Compelling professors at a public university to allow, without any limitation or restriction, students to carry concealed guns in their classrooms chills their First Amendment rights to academic freedom.

How free speech is chilled, when the Texas law requires the pistols to be concealed, is not explained. Illegally concealed pistols are likely in the classrooms already.

48. The Texas statutes and university policies that prohibit Plaintiffs from exercising their individual option to forbid handguns in their classrooms violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, as applied in Texas through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. These policies and procedures deprive Plaintiffs of their Second Amendment right to defend themselves and others in their classrooms from handgun violence by compelling them as public employees to passively acquiesce in the presence of loaded weaponry in their place of …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand

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