Gunpoint average: Texas prof claims campus carry law will improve grades

[The Legion]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/06/04/gunpoint-average-texas-prof-fears-campus-carry-law-would-bring-grade-inflation/

 

"This is what is teaching college students in our universities today"

 

 

A Texas college professor claims a coming law that would allowing licensed gun owners to carry firearms on campuses will cause grades to shoot up.

In a recent opinion piece published in Newsweek, Jessica Gullion, an assistant professor of sociology at Texas Woman's University, warns that allowing students to pack heat in the classroom could add a scary dimension to those after-class discussions about grades.

 

"Will we soon see a new sort of grade inflation, with students earning a 4.0 GPA with their firepower rather than brainpower?" Gullion wrote.

Gullion recounted being intimidated by one student angry about her grade, and said knowing that angry students might be armed and could "resort to any means necessary" to keep their grades up could prompt professors to hand out easy As.

"Allowing students to carry weapons to class strips off a layer of safety," she wrote. "Students are often emotional and can be volatile when it comes to their GPAs," she wrote. "Who would want to give a student a low grade and then get shot for it?"

The National Rifle Association took aim at Gullion's argument, calling it "divorced from reality and logic." The national trend of states easing restrictions on carrying licensed firearms has not spurred the violence some predicted, according to the NRA, and any student willing to threaten a professor with death or injury is likely not waiting for legislation to pass.

"Indeed, aping the irrational fears, paranoid delusions, or cultural biases of one’s teacher is far more likely to prop up one’s GPA than lawfully and unobtrusively carrying a firearm of which the teacher is unaware," the NRA wrote on its website.

The state Legislature passed a measure over the weekend that would repeal a law prohibiting licensed gun holders from having firearms on school grounds. If signed by Gov. Greg Abbott, as expected, the law would go into effect next fall and in 2017 for community and junior colleges. Public school presidents have the right to ban guns in “reasonable” areas of the campus, and private colleges in Texas would be able to completely opt out of campus carry.

Texans with concealed handgun licenses have been able to carry on college campuses for 20 years, but not in buildings.

The campus carry law is one of two controversial gun bills on Abbott's desk. The other, which he is also expected to sign, would allow for licensed gun owners to openly carry handguns in most public spaces. 

[WindHawk]

Overall I agree with the OP; too many far left professors being supported by our universities but I'm not too concerned about this one.  Just the lib press trying to create dramatic "news" to criticize Texas for updating their carry laws.  Probably a publicity play by an associate professor as much as anything. Doubt we'll hear from her again. 

 

Texas Women's University is a pretty small (about 9,500 students) liberal arts school.  Accepts almost 90% of those that apply but only graduates a little over 20% of their students. Enrollment is almost 90% female.

 

From their web site:

"TWU's academic and social environment empowers students by fostering intellectual curiosity and lifelong learning, scholarship and research, health and wellness, global understanding, leadership, personal responsibility, financial literacy, civic engagement, and respect for diversity."

[eapking]

Typical liberal running on the assumption that all gun owners are lunatics who will use one at the drop of a hat.

[analog_kidd]

How does the law change anything? Right now, what is to keep a disgruntled student from threatening a professor? Mostly, it's the law; a student won't risk going to jail, and that won't change.

 

The fact of the matter is that a person who is law abiding, and conscientious enough to get a carry permit, is probably going to be a good student anyway, and won't need to make threats to prop up a grade. It's the thugs that don't get a permit that they really need to worry about.

[DaveTN]

It sounds like this candy azz has been intimidated into handing out good grades.
Hey professor, if you believe that what makes you think they need to have a gun while intimidating you?

[300winmag]

Most people have to be 21 to carry in Texas.  Very few young college students can get a CHL down there and I'm sure the cost kind of deters some that are 21.  You can have a loaded pistol in your car there without a CHL, even on college property as long as you are 18.  The ability to keep a loaded pistol in the car seems to satisfy most people.  Only about 3% of the population has a CHL if you look at TX DPS stats.

 

I would be surprised if a college campus in TX had very many people legally carrying on their persons.  No one would know about the few that do because they have to conceal.  The few that would carry on campus would probably be non traditional students going back to school in the evenings while they work in the daytime.

[Titansfan]

If the logic that OC will improve grade point (due to preceived threat), then when I open-carry at some places I should get head of the line privileges? get a discount at the register?

 

No, I am just the avg. customer and going about my own business.