Gun Rights on Campuses

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Updated: 3:04 PM Jun 27, 2008 Gun Rights on Campuses Weyers Cave, Va. The right to bear arms for protection can extend to college campuses. Posted: 11:21 PM Jun 26, 2008 Reporter: Mary Pulley Email Address: mpulley@whsv.com

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Posted by: Tim B Location: Colorado State on Jul 11, 2008 at 10:20 AM

Being a recent alum of one of the few concealed carry friendly campuses, I say cheers to BRCC. No incidents have arisen on any CCW campus from CCW permitees...and I'm not the least bit surprised. Students should have the same rights as non-students who are on campus, and it is absurd to prohibit those students who are adults from doing something they could do without penalty if they were NOT a student. If a school faculty does not like CCW, that is their prerogative (and an uneducated one at that). But to disregard state law when there is no way they can legally enforce an anti-gun school policy is simply disrespectful to students. Again, cheers to BRCC.

Posted by: Ken S Location: Virginia Tech on Jul 10, 2008 at 07:36 PM

I agree, Dutch. The real question is why do we deny these rights? Only 1% of Americans have a permit, and of those, less than 1% lose their permits for ANY reason. These are NOT the people we need to worry about. On the other hand, many permit holders have reason to fear for their lives - women, minorities, disabled folks, etc. who are often targeted. And coming from a VT student who was here and lost a friend, it's clear that being left defenseless does nothing to protect anyone. Not sure what McConnell was talking about, "schools" are not the same as "colleges" and SCOTUS knows that.

Posted by: Dutch on Jun 27, 2008 at 02:12 PM

I will simply never understand these restrictions. A law-abiding gun owner who does not cause problems off campus is simply not going to cause problems after crossing that "magic" line onto campus and a criminal intent on breaking the law isn't going to be stopped by some stupid restriction. "Gun free zones" make mighty poor armor.

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