Some professors in Texas have filed a lawsuit over the state’s new campus carry law but the AG isn’t too concerned.

Campus Reform reports.

Texas AG shoots down profs’ arguments against campus carry

A lawsuit against Texas’ new campus carry law is “frivolous” and lacks “legal justification,” the state’s Attorney General contends in an opposition brief filed Monday.

Three University of Texas professors filed the lawsuit in response to the campus carry law that took effect August 1, arguing that guns in the classroom threaten both academic freedom and equal protection as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.

The suit requests an injunction to block the law, but Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is one of the defendants named in the lawsuit, said he is “confident [the lawsuit] will be dismissed” in a press release Tuesday touting his counter-arguments.

“The Legislature passed a constitutionally-sound law,” Attorney General Paxton declares in the statement, adding, “There is no legal justification to deny licensed, law-abiding citizens on campus the same measure of personal protection they are entitled to elsewhere in Texas.”

Renea Hicks, a lawyer representing the professors, claims their fears are justified. She argues that guns in the classroom violate the First Amendment because the fear of inciting gun violence will suppress certain opinions.

“It isn’t a vague fear that something might happen,” Hicks said. “It’s the palpable certainty that there will be narrowed spectrum of academic debate because of guns in the classroom.”