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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.

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.

Hear, Hear.
Well said.

Oh stop! You got your panties in a wad when I was not talking about you or your children. You and yours are as accustomed to guns and what they are capable of as me and mine. I am talking about the children of people like some of the ones I know. Most of them have never seen a gun except for what they see sticking out of a policemans holster. I thought a friend of mine was going to faint when she saw my husbands pistol laying on the table. “Is it real?” She whimpered. It would take years of shooting to make her children gun safe, a 6 week course would not be enough.