On Tuesday, April 2, the House voted 98-42 to grant preliminary approval to legislation that would allow anyone to carry a concealed firearm on college campuses.
Under existing law, campus concealed-carry is prohibited except for individuals to whom a school’s governing body has given permission to carry.
House Bill 575 originally was limited to allowing university governing boards to designate certain faculty members or staff as “campus protection officers” who, even though they aren’t trained law enforcement officers, would be granted the same legal authority as police to make arrests or use deadly force.
The bill, which Democrats unanimously opposed, was amended during debate to add the provision legalizing carrying concealed weapons on campus. HB 575 requires a second vote to advance to the Senate
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Thank you no, I went to school in the 60' and 70's with a short recess to go to VN and believe me, 18-21 year olds and older in many cases should not be carrying on college campus. Before we had heated debates about various things, but nothing ever transpired from those discussions. Now one has to wonder if the other person gets mad will he pull and shoot me? Good discussions/debates were the mainstay of college life in Student Union or in classes where professors were allowed to start the discussions so students could express ideas or even change their or others ideas. Now that is stifled in most schools and with guns even more censorship will be unintended. Why are these legislators doing this, simple, NRA and firearm manufacturers want more power/sales to these unstable people.
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