Gun bill targets colleges (A Virginia Gun Rights Poll to FREEP is at the link)

"Was I violating their rights?"

Probably, though in a fairly inoffensive fashion.

I'm curious as to what school would allow a "Head Resident" to set firearms policy?

I'm also curious as to what sort of "problems" you anticipated, in setting such a policy, and for that matter, what you could/would have done had there been such a "problem?"

No trouble posting it. Tried to cut and paste the link from the article to the survey to put in my post but it was java script and wouldn't copy. Tried typing the java line to the browser window and got a different poll. I did it via the page on the newspaers site. It will not let you vote twice.

Their authority over students remains a gray area, he said.

No it doesn't. The students at a PUBLIC university don't relinquish their Constitutional rights when they step onto campus. Funny how this seems clear to everyone where the First Amendment is concerned, but all sorts of otherwise sane people go fuzzy when it comes to the Second Amendment -- even this Va. Citizen's Defense League guy!

Government has no legitimate authority to restrict where folks can have guns. That there are so many restrictions on campii is just idiocy. Why?

We have no such restrictions in Oregon and state law specifically forbids anyone but the legislature from regulating the places and manner in which weapons may be carried (and campii and even public skools are presently allowed no restrictions, only the federal statutes restricting carry at public skools to CWP licensees apply, and school boards can't prohibit them and they hate it). Add to that a state high court ruling which would probably limit even the legislature's authority if push came to shove, and things are good here. Yet there are no old west shootouts and no bloodbaths here, where more innocents are shot by cops than anyone else it sometimes seems.

Oh I went to the story & poll site at the top of the thread. By now the tables have turned, the dummies or whatever have been there and it's something like 81% against. Idiots. And the related discussion forum carries mostly pro gun comments, but the few anti gun ones are coming up with dumb crap like "they don't need them". Idiots. This isn't about need it's about rights. I agree, if colleges figger it's okay to take away gun rights then it's only fair they take away all rights including free speech. But then I guess a lot of them do in a way, where utterences of the un-PC variety go sanctioned lots of times. Idiots. Clearly they are hostile to all rights and I suggest if they don't want them they don't need them, so take them away. Including so-called academic freedom, which I don't think is in the constitution anyway < /rant >.

Update to poll from Thursday, SWO.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/wb/xp-50224

Your thoughts on guns on college campuses
"Our Thursday story about a proposed bill that would allow guns onto college campuses drew quite a response."

"Thanks in large part, apparently, to a call to vote from the conservative Web site freerepublic.com, our poll question garnered more than 2,000 votes -- more than 90 percent in favor of the legislation."....excerpt

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