An anti-gun professor at San Antonio College showed up to class wearing body armor and a ballistic helmet, in protest of Texas’ new campus carry law.
Charles K. Smith, a geography professor, donned the military gear to class on Tuesday, the first day the law went into effect at community colleges.
“I was just saying I don’t feel safe,” Smith told mySA.com about the law, which allows licensed concealed carry permit holders to carry on campus.
Smith expressed concern that the new law would cause students to shoot him on campus if they were angry with him, claiming that “It increases the chances of something happening. Used to, when they got mad at me, they had to go home to get the gun and had time to cool off, now they will have it with them.”
“My assumption is that you will have more people carrying guns, that will lead to problems. It always has,” Smith continued. “There is nothing on this planet worth a human life.”
Texas’ campus carry law went into effect August 1st of last year on four-year universities and expanded to community colleges last week. There have been zero incidents where a concealed carry permit holder has attacked another student, faculty member, or professor since the campus carry law went into effect.
Antonia Okafor, CEO of EmPOWERed, a pro campus carry organization, told Red Alert Politics that Smith’s actions “show an irrational hysteria in regards to gun rights on college campuses perpetrated by the anti-gun left.”
Okafor, who was one of one of the principal backers of Texas’ 2015 campus carry law, argued that, “the right for self-defense on and off campus is a human right. I take it a step further and say that it’s also a women’s right. These same professors will claim to care about the women they teach and draw attention to the rise of sexual assault or assault in general on campus, but then they in the same breath deny these women a chance of personal protection.”
