Posted on 12/28/2009 9:17:16 PM PST by greatdefender
Reporting from Denver - After a gun-wielding student killed 32 at Virginia Tech, faculty at Colorado State University in Fort Collins found, to their alarm, that theirs was one of the few public schools in the country with no policy banning firearms. Anyone with a concealed weapons permit could legally carry on campus.
Students, however, were alarmed when the faculty moved to change that.
Among other arguments, students contended that permitting people to carry concealed weapons was the campus' best defense against another tragedy.
"Let's say you have another Columbine or Virginia Tech," said Dan Gearhart, the student government president. "People want the ability to protect themselves."
Still, Colorado State's Board of Governors unanimously directed the presidents of the 22,000-student Fort Collins campus and the system's smaller campus in Pueblo to draw up weapon restriction policies. (The system also maintains what it calls its Global Campus online.) It cited a study by an association of campus police chiefs that concluded private firearms didn't help protect schools.
The governors are scheduled to finalize the new policies in February.
At Colorado State's main campus, where the student government voted to oppose any restrictions on concealed weapons, student leaders circulated a petition urging a permissive policy.
"Students were really disregarded in a lot of the discussions," said sophomore David Ambrose, a student senator majoring in business. "Banning concealed weapons on campus makes students second-class citizens compared to the rest of Colorado."
It's a rural state, and many students, professors and campus workers are hunters. Gun ownership is so widespread that the University of Colorado at Boulder has opened a gun storage facility where students can deposit their firearms.
"It's definitely more of a Western thing," Gearhart said. He keeps a shotgun in his Colorado Springs home that he mainly uses for skeet shooting.
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Gahhhh! When will the liberals/Progressives/commies learn that only the law abiding follow the rules? Dumbasses!
It’s treason. They’re counting on your good faith to think they are stupid, when it is just ...
... treason.
How’d the gun ban work at VT?
Can you imagine this logic is coming from college PROFESSORS?
School rules DO NOT trump the Constitution. All should be allowed to carry a piece; I would challenge this in court.
So carry anyway, and don’t tell anybody. If some crazed idiot comes in shooting up the place and you neutralize the threat and save your fellow students, what are they going to do? Sue you for disobeying their orders to die obediently?
“Banning concealed weapons on campus makes students second-class citizens compared to the rest of Colorado.”
Well, give them time. The commies will most certainly provide a remedy for this little inequity.
A statewide ban—voila!
Being a commie tyrant is nothing if it isn’t simple.
This is exactly what happens when people vote for LIBERALS.
If I take online classes, do I need to remove all of my guns from my home?
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