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It really is alarming how out of touch with reality most of the comments are. One faculty talked about having empty chamber checkpoints at all the doors. What part of concealed does he not understand?

I'm glad you found the comments as enlightening on the position of faculty at Texas A&M as I did.

For some really interesting reading, check out the opinions of faculty members that are writing in to the Dean of Faculties at Texas A&M http://dof.tamu.edu/Responses%202-24%20 ... %203-3.pdf.

Some of the more interesting comments include

If an individual has a personal problem so serious as to call for feeling the need to carry a gun to class, then the problem should (and could) be addressed off campus where classmates and/or others would not be in the risk of endangerment.

I'm not sure what to make of the situation this person is addressing. If he is advocating violence as an answer as long as it's off campus, my mind is simply blown that an "educated" person would feel this way. The only other meaning I could come up would be that this person believes that bad things such as robberies, rapes, and other assaults will only occur off campus. Ideally they won't happen at all, but, again, my mind is blown at this attitude.

Assuming the law is passed: While I understand that students would have to be licensed to carry weapons on campus, how will faculty and staff—including our police force—know if someone carrying a gun has a license? If a student enters my class with a gun, should I ask him or her to show me the license? If he/she left the license home, should I disarm him/her? Will I be sued if I do?

This just makes me want to bang my head against the wall. Concealed. Concealed. Concealed. It's not that difficult a concept.

I will not feel safe in the classrooms, buildings, or anywhere on campus, knowing that an unknown number of concealed weapons could be around me, and that gunshots can occur at any time.

Why is it that people equate campus carry of concealed handguns by licensed individuals with allowing any student to carry a gun of any kind with them and then to subsequently exempt them from other laws such as murder and discharging firearms haphazardly. It's lunacy.

There are a couple reasonable comments if you can stomach the rest of them.