[Ditter]

I know you are thinking about security. Lets put more security guards and police on campus and let the college students, even upper classmen, settle their difference with fist fights if words aren't enough and not side arms.

[TXnMA]

I was taught firearms safety, and then taught to shoot a handgun at the age of nine. My 11th birthday present was a .410 shotgun. I am now a septuagenarian, have been armed most of my life, and have never fired a round at any human -- nor do I want to do so.

The courses I have taken for my CHLs have all been very heavy on the responsibility -- and consequences -- of carrying and of using a weapon against another human.

Some of you here are apparently disregarding the fact that those whom this law would allow to carry on campus have already had similar training, and are already legally carrying their weapons everywhere else. No one has advocated arming the general campus population.

As far as I can tell, all this law does is erase an arbitrary line that now reduces trained, responsible armed citizens into disarmed, likely victims -- whenever it is crossed upon entering the campus.

Perhaps you were -- as a student -- too irresponsible to be armed -- and remember those days well. Please do not project your recalled inadequacies on those who do not share them.

[laker_dad]

I know you are thinking about security

Actually, what I am thinking about is all of the training and backgound checks that I had to go through (and similarly others that may be only 21 years old) to get a CPL, and yet we are restricted from carrying on school property. I have never been in a fist fight in all of my 54 years, even when I was at college in Southfield, Michigan (LIT). I believe that the CPL process is a good one, and that the people that go through the process should be allowed to carry on campus.