Frederick Steiner is a dean in the Texas School of Architecture at the University of Texas. He’s found himself another job, at a school where students will not be allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus.
Steiner, dean of the Texas School of Architecture, explained that he's not anti-gun but said he doesn't believe they should be allowed on college campuses.
"I grew up hunting," he told Fox. "My father was a Marine and a policeman. I'm not a stranger to firearms in any way. I grew up believing there was an appropriate place for guns and it was not in a place of higher education and higher learning."
Here’s part of a letter UT President Gregory Fenves wrote to the UT community:
I have thoroughly reviewed the policy recommendations of the Campus Carry Working Group and decided to adopt them. Under the law, I cannot adopt a policy that has the general effect of excluding licensed concealed handguns from campus. I agree with the working group that a classroom exclusion would have this effect. As we have communicated since last June when SB 11 was approved by the Texas Legislature, current law does not permit open carry of handguns on campus or our buildings under any circumstances.
I do not believe handguns belong on a university campus, so this decision has been the greatest challenge of my presidency to date. I empathize with the many faculty members, staffers, students and parents of students who signed petitions, sent emails and letters, and organized to ban guns from campus and especially classrooms. As a professor, I understand the deep concerns raised by so many. However, as president, I have an obligation to uphold the law.
There have been numerous protestors from academia in Texas over these idiotic gun laws. There were 170 professors at UT petitioning campus-carry law. There is the obvious lunacy of the fact that guns will be allowable in dorm rooms but not nerf guns! Republicans, guns and education. Only one of those things leads to something positive.