A teacher in Utah wanted to expand the concept of “free speech zones” to restrict the Second Amendment on campus.
Students in the state are legally allowed to concealed carry weapons on public campuses so long as they have permits, but that didn’t stop an unidentified graduate teaching assistant at the University of Utah from creating a 3×3 foot “Second Amendment zone” with masking tape in her classroom recently. “If you feel that it is somehow at all appropriate to bring a gun to class (hint: it is not — this is absurd, antisocial, and frightening behavior), you are restricted to spending your time in class in my ‘Second Amendment zone’ a 3×3 taped square on the floor in the very back of the classroom, that will be shared with all other gun carriers,” the teacher wrote in her syllabus, according to a report in the Salt Lake Tribune.
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