Posted on 08/23/2015 5:21:18 AM PDT by marktwain
In 2012, Kansas reformed its concealed carry law. People who were exercising their Second Amendment rights would no longer be excluded from public buildings, unless the building took active measures to insure that armed criminals would also be excluded. Active measure included guards and metal detectors on entrances. From kansan.com:
The law would allow the University to secure the campus against guns by using metal detectors and guards, but it would cost more than $20 million to secure all 237 campus buildings, according to a 2013 report that the University gave to the Board of Regents.The Kansan is a university newspaper; still I think that even a university paper writer would understand the irony of that statement. It is a truism. If you do not have protective measures in place, anyone could bring a concealed gun into any university building.
If the University did not implement that security, anyone would be able to bring a concealed gun into any University building at any time.
Well discuss what it will mean for the University and how to best deal with the situations that may arise so that no one calls 911 every time they see a gun because we cant learn and work in those conditions, Williams said.This is a good item to focus on. There are seven other states that allow concealed carry on campus. There have not been any significant problems in those states.
(c) It shall be a violation of this section to carry an unconcealed firearm if the building is posted in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the attorney general pursuant to subsection (d). Any person who violates this section shall not be subject to a criminal penalty but may be subject to denial to such premises or removal from such premises.It appears that it is already legal to openly carry firearms on Kansas universities, as long as they are not carried into buildings that have the proper signage.
Now that is being challenged and the old taboo is being exposed as the shamefull political lie that it always has been.
I can just imagine the exploding heads at KU and in Lawrence. Your article’s point about the number of states that allow campus carry without incident is good to know as this is a continuing bone of contention in OK. The ability of the ivory tower crew to constantly recycle flawed arguments is interesting.
The students from the North were usually alarmed at the beginning, but settled down quickly. In fact, one guy from the inner city of Jersey City became a dedicated hunter.
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