While reasonable minds can differ I think this is a bad idea. I own many firearms (M1A clone from Federal Ordinance, .357 Python, Heckler & Koch P9s in .45, a 1911, a K-98 Mauser clone from Spain, a Browning T bolt in left hand, a Mossberg 500, a Rossi .38, a Smith 422, a Ruger 1022, to name but a few.), I've carried firearms as a cop back in the last century; and I've picked up shooting victims back when I rode ambulances as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). What I can say is this; testosterone, alcohol, and youth are a bad combination. While there are exceptions virtually every assault I worked as a cop or picked up as an EMT involved alcohol or drugs and access to weapons (guns and/or knives). Somebody is angry about "A" dating "B" when they knew "C" loved/desired/had slept with "B"; it's a bad thing; or "A" is upset with "B" about something; or "A" and "B" are just fooling around - showing off - having fun without adult supervision. Even as a cop, invariably if we were having a "Choir Practice" (see Joseph Wambaugh's novel by the same name) some rook (rookie, apologies to Norwich) would pull out their new off-duty piece after a couple of adult beverages and blast off a few rounds - and they knew better. In the superheated environment of a college dorm, made all the more so by living in an SMC environment, I view it as an actuarial certainty that somebody between the ages of 18 and 21 will do something stupid. Look, this isn't new, Bruno's quote of the Bible is right on the mark, there is very little new under the sun. John Singleton Mosby got in trouble for having a gun on campus at the University of Virginia well before the Civil War; goes on to a legendary Confederate officer, and later a ranking member of the Department of Justice. The pre-Civil War Commonwealth of Virginia could hardly be called a venue of ant-gun nuts and they didn't think guns on a college campus was a good thing. I haven't read the new Texas statute but was talking with our daughter who had just finished four years as a member of the TAMU Corps as we drove home last month. She asked what would happen and I expressed these concerns. She also asked if the University or Corps would have to permit weapons and I said that it would depend on how the statute was written. If the statute says something along the lines "may" carry, then yes the University would be able to say no. However, if the statute is written along the lines of "shall be able to", then no, the University won't be able to prohibit it. I get the concern, yes you'd want a gun if there was an active shooter on campus or your dorm; but I play the odds, and I view the likelihood of an active shooter at the dorm and look at the number of TAMU police offices, let alone other local law enforcement agencies; and I weight that against the odds of someone being in their cups and doing something stupid with a gun, and I view the latter much more likely than the former. That's my thought anyway. Very Respectfully, Lawman32RPD