Multiple faculty and staff members at Texas Tech have started a petition against Senate Bill 11, also known as the Campus Carry law.
The law extends the right to carry concealed handguns into buildings on public college campuses, and is set to take effect on August 1st of 2016.
KCBD reports that the petition calls on Texas Tech President Duane Nellis to declare all classrooms as well as faculty and staff offices as “gun free” zones. It goes on to ask the university board of regents to approve their request.
In the petition, faculty says the presence of guns on campus puts the university in danger and is quote “not only a threat to our safety; it is a threat to our academic freedom. It creates a special class of students which is encouraged to secretly carry lethal force into college and university buildings.”
As of now Senate Bill 11 is Texas law, and one of the only ways for it to not take effect here, is for this petition to be approved.
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