Every morning Michael Guzman reaches into his kitchen cabinet, and retrieves what he considers to be another appendage.
"I carry it everywhere for the most part, I forget about it," he said.
But he's reminded of it as soon as he gets to school at Texas State University. Current state law and university policy says students can bring guns to campus, but they have to keep them in their cars. Students say that's not going to help them if emergency strikes.
"I don't like that possible threat existing when I know I can't defend myself if a deranged student enters," Guzman said.
That's why Guzman is part of a group called Concealed Campus. They want to convince lawmakers that letting students and faculty carry guns on campus would save lives.
Supporters also want to emphasize that studies show people with licenses to carry concealed weapons are generally law-abiding citizens who are less likely to commit a crime.
"We just don't want to be the school with 33 dead. And if someone had a gun, you just don't know what happens," Texas State University student Tracy Adams said.
But just across campus, experts at the Center for Safe Communities and Schools say they do know what would happen: more violence.
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Gun control
A student group thinks that they should be allowed to protect themselves while in class.
 
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"I think it creates a less safe environment by having more guns on campus. We already have professionals on campus," Dave Williams with the center said.
But some of those professionals actually support letting armed students on school grounds.
"It doesn't make sense to me that you can take weapons to Luby's or the library, but you can't take it to the classroom," San Marcos Police Chief Howard Williams said.
Now Concealed Campus and their supporters will take the debate to the Texas Legislature.
