UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa sent a letter to Gov. Rick Perry encouraging him to prevent the Texas Legislature from allowing guns on college campuses.
The letter, which Cigarroa sent Thursday, addressed the System’s three main areas of concern about the bill that would allow registered concealed carry permit holders to bring guns onto college campuses. He said in the letter the bill could be detrimental to University mental health, law enforcement and laboratory safety.
“I must concur with all the concerns and apprehensions expressed to me, that the presence of concealed weapons, on balance will make a campus a less-safe environment,” Cigarroa said in the letter.
Perry spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said Perry still supports the carrying of concealed weapons on campus.
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