Prof at Texas Women’s U.: Campus Carry Will Force Scholars to Give ‘A’s
If you were looking for the dumbest reason to oppose campus carry, look no further.
Jennifer Kabbany writes at the College Fix:
Prof: Campus Carry Would Force Scholars to Give A Grades So They Don’t Get Shot
essica Smartt Gullion, an assistant professor of sociology at Texas Woman’s University, is actually arguing that scholars will be intimidated into giving students with concealed carry permits As so they don’t get shot.
Suggesting students often get emotionally distraught over bad grades, scholars are at risk from gun-toting students, Gullion writes in a piece republished by Newsweek and the Houston Chronicle:
Texas college professors may soon face a dilemma between upholding professional ethics and protecting their lives. …
With this proposed law, a question coming up for many academics is whether they would be forced to give A grades to undeserving students, just so they can avoid being shot.
This is not as far-fetched as it sounds. In my five years as a college professor, I have had experiences with a number of emotionally distressed students who resort to intimidation when they receive a lesser grade than what they feel they deserve. …
Allowing students to carry weapons to class strips off a layer of safety. Students are often emotional and can be volatile when it comes to their GPAs. Who would want to give a student a low grade and then get shot for it?
But the National Rifle Association quickly fired back, noting “Gullion’s arguments about heated exchanges escalating into gun-fueled carnage are similarly divorced from reality and logic.”
Prof: Campus Carry Would Force Scholars to Give A Grades So They Don't Get Shot (The College Fix)
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“If concealed carry becomes law the gutters will run with blood! There will be Wild West-type shootouts in our streets!” —
Mikey Bloomberg’s minions in every state where CCL was proposed
List of states where any of these predictions have actually come true:
(None)
Now the tissy-prissels on campus are getting even sillier. Jessica Smartt Gullion needs to untie all those knots in her undies. She hasn’t been bludgeoned by a laptop or stabbed with a sharp nailfile, dangerous objects many (most?) of her students carry already, but she gets the vapors considering a hypothetical student’s handgun? Jessica, unstable people don’t go through the process of getting a concealed carry license so you have nothing to fear from those who take the time and effort to obtain one; CCL holders are more likely to come to your defense in the unlikely event that some unlicensed person does threaten you.