UT Reaction

Published 2:25 pm Saturday, February 14, 2015

Usama Malik, left, and Omar Salim, undergraduates at the University of Texas at Austin, visit a memorial for three slain North Carolina college students on Friday. Malik and Salim say they oppose a bill authorizing students to carry concealed handguns on campus. Malik recalled that a mass shooting at UT in 1966. “If you have it at home, keep it there,” he said, referring to guns. Students lead stressful lives, he said. “What students need is counseling.”