Posted on 07/21/2017 1:09:31 PM PDT by marktwain
Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- In August, 2016, two professors from the University of Austin, Texas, and an Associate Teaching Assistant Professor, sued the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, the President of the University of Texas, Austin, and the Members of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas at Austin.
A number of frivolous claims were offered in an attempt to stop the Texas statute allowing exercise of the Second Amendment on Campus from going into effect.
The claims included that the law is vague, the law violated the plaintiffs' First Amendment, Second Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The arguments were childish, irrational, emotional rants.
Here is an example:
48. The Texas statutes and university policies that prohibit Plaintiffs from exercising their individual option to forbid handguns in their classrooms violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, as applied in Texas through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. These policies and procedures deprive Plaintiffs of their Second Amendment right to defend themselves and others in their classrooms from handgun violence by compelling them as public employees to passively acquiesce in the presence of loaded weaponry in their place of public employment without the individual possession and use of such weaponry in public being well-regulated. This infringement lacks any important justification and is imposed without any substantial link between the objectives of the policies and the means chosen to achieve them.
Judge Lee Yeakel heard the claims, read the suit, and concluded that the plaintiffs had no standing because they had not suffered any harm.
A federal judge has dismissed a long-shot lawsuit filed by three University of Texas at Austin professors seeking to overturn the state's 2015 campus carry law, which allows people to
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In this case, the University officials were in sympathy with the professors filing the suit.
The Texas statutes and university policies that prohibit Plaintiffs from exercising their individual option to forbid handguns in their classrooms violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, as applied in Texas through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. These policies and procedures deprive Plaintiffs of their Second Amendment right to defend themselves and others in their classrooms from handgun violence by compelling them as public employees to passively acquiesce in the presence of loaded weaponry in their place of public employment without the individual possession and use of such weaponry in public being well-regulated. This infringement lacks any important justification and is imposed without any substantial link between the objectives of the policies and the means chosen to achieve them.
“Wow. That paragraph should be taught in a logic class. As an example of having none.”
Of course, then I’d also have to fire about 4/5 of the profs...but they could easily be replaced by the common-sense oriented janitorial staff.
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Lately the Austin (TX) fifth-column TV media have been doing nothing but whine about the defeats experienced by the left. A five-second clip of Gov. Abbott followed by a full minute of leftist (sometimes a UT prof., Demonicrat state rep., or the Austin kakistocratic mayor) puking propaganda lies.
Hoplophobia
They don’t like it, so that means nobody else can like it.
“Hoplophobia”
Sheesh, I didn’t know Hopalong had a psycho babble thing named after him’’’’’’
What surprised us when we moved to the Austin was how even the Fox TV affiliate pushes Leftist propaganda. If you want to hear the other side, you need cable or computer sites.
Austin is a lib stronghold.
“Come and take it!” is our cry.
When Texas secedes, we’re walling off uber lib Austin.
UT is the Berkeley of the South.
Jeff Cooper coined the term. An irrational fear and hatred of weapons.
Exactly when were these snowflakes given property rights to these classrooms, owned by the college, hence the State of Texas, hence owned by the citizens of Texas, NOT the professors or teachers who occasionally lectures in these rooms by the grant of permission of their employer, by concatenation, those very same citizens of Texas? I see nonsuch property rights.
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