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Link-only: Campus gun legislation merely clarifies gun rightsI wrote this regarding House Bill 5474 introduced by Rep. Schmidt. It's been heard in committee twice. Needs calls and letters of support to get heard on the floor!

On August 1, 2008, college students from throughout the United States will attend the first Students for Concealed Carry on Campus National Conference at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., funded by the Second Amendment Foundation. This noteworthy, one-day event will feature many distinguished speakers and guests. Among them will be Dr. John R. Lott, world reputed scholar and author of More Guns Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, and many more. SCCC and SAF will be providing students with one night free at The District Hotel and students traveling over 750 miles are eligible to receive...

On May 27, Louisiana Representative Ernest Wooton recalled House Bill 199 to be heard on Wednesday, June 4. This bill would allow students (faculty, staff) who have the proper state-issued credentials to carry concealed weapons onto public Louisiana colleges. I need EVERY Louisiana freeper to please get on board with this. The first thing to do is very, very easy. Tell me the names of your area newspapers, and either include e-mail addresses or the website or something so I can get hold of them. If any of you have inside tracks or contacts, or even if you'd prefer to...

Link Only: David Burnett: Disarming citizens emboldens criminals - The Pro Guns on Campus ArgumentEven though I wrote the darn thing, I still have to link to it.

Despite opposition from student government leaders and top state education officials, a House committee Thursday took the first step toward allowing authorized concealed weapons on college campuses. Members of the Committee on the Administration of Criminal heard emotional arguments on both sides for three hours before voting 11-3 for House Bill 199 by Rep. Ernest Wooton, R-Belle Chasse, a former sheriff and the panel's chairman. The panel rejected an amendment to exempt private colleges from the bill. The measure heads to the House floor for debate. State law now bans guns from being carried onto college campuses as well as...

Last Monday, three colleges and four K-to-12 schools were shut down by threats of violence. This week over 25,000 college students at 300 chapters in 44 states belong to a group, Students for Concealed Carry on College Campuses, that will carry empty handgun holsters to protest their concerns about not being able to defend themselves. With the first anniversary of the Virginia Tech attack last week and the discussions that it created, we clearly have not been able to put that and other attacks behind us. There are good reasons why the safety measures adopted over the last year to...

THE 25,000-MEMBER ORGANIZATION STUDENTS FOR CONCEALED CARRY ON CAMPUS PREPARES FOR ITS SECOND NATIONAL COLLEGIATE EMPTY HOLSTER PROTEST (APRIL 21-25) During the week of April 21-25, 2008, thousands of college students throughout the United States, organized under the banner of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC), will attend classes wearing empty holsters, in protest of state laws and school policies that stack the odds in favor of dangerous criminals and armed killers by disarming law abiding citizens licensed to carry concealed handguns virtually everywhere else. SCCC hosted its first national collegiate Empty Holster Protest during the week of October...

Dr. Ignatius Piazza, founder and director of the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, has graciously donated this Front Sight course certificate to Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. This certificate has a retail value of $2,000 and is good for enrollment in any of the following courses: TWO DAY COURSES (two people may use one certificate when enrolling in the same Two Day Course together) Two Day Defensive Handgun Two Day Tactical Shotgun Two Day Practical Rifle FOUR DAY COURSES (one certificate per person, per course when enrolling in a Four Day Course) Four Day Defensive HandgunFour Day Tactical ShotgunFour...

Link Only: Panel endorses bill to let some bring guns to Arizona colleges

I will be on KDKA 1020 this evening at 8:30pm EST with Scott Paulsen and John Steigerwald to discuss Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. John tells me they air in 38 states, and if you follow the link above, you can always listen streaming.

Four months after Peter Hamm, spokesperson for The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, verbally attacked the college-based, grassroots organization Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, telling a Fox News reporter, "You don't like the fact that you can't have a gun on your college campus? Drop out of school," he is stepping up the rhetoric. Not content with encouraging college students to forgo their educations rather than fight for a cause in which they believe, Mr. Hamm has resorted to baseless conspiracy theories and slander. In a February 19, 2008, interview with Anna Hipsley of Australia’s ABC News radio,...

Thursday's massacre on the campus of Northern Illinois University was the seventh mass shooting in the U.S. in the past month. In the almost-10 months since the nation's worst school shooting killed 33 people at Virginia Tech, debate has grown over campus security and gun laws. Thought the majority of students and universities are pushing for tighter regulation, a vocal minority rejects the idea that tougher gun laws will make schools safer. Michael Guzeman, the leader of the Texas chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, joined "Good Morning America Weekend" Saturday to make the case for his organization....