University of Texas educators continue to protest against the campus carry law set to go into effect this coming summer. The reality of legally concealed guns on campus is just as frightening as it sounds and economics professor emeritus Daniel Hamermesh has decided he will
no longer be able to teach as a result.
The law will allow the concealed carry of guns in campus buildings beginning Aug. 1, 2016. Hamermesh said he is not comfortable with the risk of having a student shoot at him in class. He teaches a course with 475 students enrolled, according to a letter Hamermesh wrote Sunday to UT President Gregory Fenves.
“With a huge group of students, my perception is that the risk that a disgruntled student might bring a gun into the classroom and start shooting at me has been substantially enhanced by the concealed-carry law,” Hamermesh wrote in the letter.
Hamermesh will be missed.
Megan Burke, a psychology sophomore in Hamermesh’s class, said she thinks UT will lose a great professor in Hamermesh because of the new campus carry policy.
“I am really sad that professor Hamermesh will be leaving UT,” Burke said. “Hamermesh is a great professor with a lot of experience and is highly respected in his community, so it is a shame that he will be leaving UT. I do agree with his reasoning to leave, because campus carry does put him at a higher risk, so it makes sense that he would teach at a ‘safer’ university."
Unfortunately for the student body at UT, Professor Hamermesh doesn't have the courage to go to class everyday and just set up a couple of machine gun turrets like so:
Put on on each side of the class room and your problem is solved.
And then you can have a couple of teaching assistants man them—make sure they have the proper license blah blah liberal media take my guns blah blah, and then voila! Anybody comes at you you just mow them down.
Now, let's learn!
You can see and read a copy of the letter below the fold.