PA Bill Number: SB1376
Title: In Department of Aging, further providing for objectives, for powers and duties in general, for area agencies and powers and duties and for ...
Description: In Department of Aging, further providing for objectives, for powers and duties in general, for area agencies and powers and duties and for ... ...
Last Action: Re-referred to Appropriations
Last Action Date: Jun 10, 2026
UTEP Journalism Prof Says 'No Guns In My Classroom' :: 09/21/2015
A University of Texas El Paso professor isn’t backing down after a new law was passed in Texas that allows concealed carry on campus. The journalism professor, David Smith-Soto, hangs a ‘No Firearms Allowed’ sign in his classroom in defiance. Speaking of the recent campus shooting in Mississippi, Smith-Soto says that it only strengthens his beliefs of not allowing firearms on campus . . .
“I was outraged, we don’t need guns in the classroom. I don’t want guns in my classroom,” Smith-Soto said. “I’m dead set against it because anybody who can carry a weapon legally on campus can snap at any time.”
Statistics, though, show us that law-abiding gun owners aren’t the ones the professor should fear. Based on the bold statement above, Smith-Soto is placing myself and anyone else who carries a firearm into the ‘crazy person’ category. To that, I take offense.
I would tell Professor Smith-Soto that many of us train, and I would tell him that over 99% of us are law-abiding citizens.
Smith-Soto plans to keep his “no guns allowed” sign up even if his building will allow guns under the new campus carry policy, which all Texas colleges must submit before 2016 to the Texas Board of Regents.
As for the University of Texas, El Paso, they told KFOX14 that they have a student/faculty task force cobbling together a campus carry policy.
