WELL, WE DON’T GENERALLY ALLOW PROFESSORS TO INFRINGE ON STUDENTS’ CIVIL RIGHTS WITH IMPUNITY: Professors who ban guns in their classrooms will be punished, UT lawyer says.

Meanwhile, some good sense from Prof. Erik Gilbert: Stop Worrying About Guns in the Classroom. They’re Already Here.

If you work at a Texas college and are worried by the prospect of having guns in your classroom, relax. The new campus-carry law changes your risk of gun violence very little. I can almost guarantee that if you have a few semesters of teaching under your belt, at some point there have been students with guns in your classroom. If those illegally armed students were not moved to violence by the content of your course or the statements of their fellow students, it seems highly improbable that a new group of legally armed students will prove to be more volatile or violence-prone than their scofflaw peers.

If you really think that there are no guns on college campuses in Texas, or elsewhere, because there is a law that forbids having guns on campus, you are mistaken. On my own campus in Arkansas, despite a strict prohibition on guns, in the last decade there has been at least one accidental discharge of a gun in a dorm room, several students who have been found to have guns in their cars, and at least one faculty member who was caught with a gun in on-campus faculty housing. And those are just people in “casual” possession of guns with no intention of causing harm or mischief who ran afoul of the campus police because they were foolish or indiscreet with them.

And here he is talking about it on NRA News.

The phobic reaction that some professors have to the idea of guns in the classroom undermines the claim that the academy is about rationality.