Posted on 05/12/2009 1:06:14 PM PDT by marktwain
JEFFERSON CITY - Only supporters made their voices heard at a Senate hearing on a bill that would allow guns on college campuses.
Five people defended a measure which would allow for college students to carry and conceal firearms on the state's college campuses.
Originally, House Bill 668 was a measure to lower the age for a gun permit to 21 from 23. But then the legislative process ran it course, which led to an additional amendment to allow for concealed handguns on college campuses.
The University of Missouri System and Missouri State University each opposed the measure when the conceal and carry provision was added.
"I would be scared if someone in my dorm owned a gun," says Lisa Grelle, a University of Missouri student.
However, one of the supporters of the bill that spoke in Jefferson City was a student from the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He said the bill was vital to college campus safety in the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting.
Mizzou sophomore student A.J. Hohman says he grew up hunting and has been around guns all of his life. He supports the measure.
"I believe everyone has the right to own a gun. I believe in the second amendment," Hohman said.
Hohman did say he understands if the measure does not pass.
This issue has been a controversial topic in the legislature since the amendment for concealed handguns was added on April 8.
It even brought a four bullet survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting to the State Capitol to speak against the legislation.
Senate Judiciary Committee Vice Chairman Sen. Jack Goodman, R - Mt. Vernon, offered several opportunities for anyone to voice their opposition but no one did.
The committee chair, Sen. Matt Bartle, R - Jackson, has already spoken up in support of the bill. The measure needs only one more vote from the Senate Judiciary Committee before it reaches the Senate Floor.
By early Tuesday morning, it became clear the bill will not be able to go through all of the steps needed for it to pass before the legislative session ends this week.
It is the same as the Texas bill, the campus lefties came on with the campus carry talk to override the bill that was intended for open carry. Now they have stalled it, and it will take 2 years to get it back through. These campus liberals have no interest in guns on campus, they know it is the way to defeat the open carry bill. Same thing in Texas.
Chances are several people in your dorm own a gun already. Difference is they want to be able to have it with them instead of at their parent's house. Unlike the bad guys who don't care, and probably do have one in their dorm room already.
Over in Idaho the new State Preemption Law was supposed to allow carry on campuses, as well as preventing towns like Moscow from banning guns.
Once the small portion of libs and BSU/ISU/UofI got their hands on it it got re-written to specifically allow presidents of colleges to enact their own gun restrictions on campus.
Still kept the portion that towns and municipalities couldn’t do it, but lost the campus ccw and made the campus portion worse for legal gun owners than it was before.
OK,,,so this is a concerted effort by the whole bunch to sabotage these bills from within. Need to get on your legislators and tell them not to fall for that crap.
Get everyone to vote. Its the 40% that dont vote that sink the ship.
“I would be scared if someone in my dorm owned a gun,” says Lisa Grelle, a University of Missouri student.
This is the mentality of the ones that stand around blubbering after one of their classmates gets murdered and if she would have had training and a ccw, she could have maybe saved her, or, someone elses classmates. Instead,she would rather hide under a desk wringing her hands while awaiting the inevitable.
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