Louisiana Bill Would Allow Students and Faculty at Public Colleges to Carry Concealed Weapons on Campus
“The proposal would also prevent universities from imposing firearm policies more restrictive than state law or requiring firearm registration with the institution.”
After what happened at Brown University earlier this year, why would anyone oppose this?
Campus Reform reports:
New state legislation would allow students and professors to carry firearms on public campuses
A Louisiana lawmaker has proposed legislation allowing students and faculty to carry firearms on public college campuses and private universities that receive state funding.
State Rep. Danny McCormick pre-filed House Bill 99, which would allow individuals who are legally permitted to possess firearms to carry them on campus property, including buildings and facilities.
The bill says the policy would align campus firearm rules with Louisiana’s permitless carry law and affirm Second Amendment rights.
Firearms would still be prohibited at disciplinary hearings, medical or mental health facilities, and events with security screening or controlled access.
The proposal would also prevent universities from imposing firearm policies more restrictive than state law or requiring firearm registration with the institution.
Students at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge expressed mixed reactions, with some saying the policy could improve personal safety while others raised concerns about campus security.
Louisiana House Speaker Phillip DeVillier says he will take feedback from education leaders into consideration as the legislation advances.
”I’m going to lean on what the system presidents are telling me, what they would like and how it could affect them,” DeVillier said to the Baton Rouge Press Club, WAFB reported. “There’s a lot of conversation I would expect and some spirited debate that I would expect to take place over that.”
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obamafjb armed the government employees :
What’s curious, however, is that traditionally administrative agencies spent more than $20 million. Four notable examples:
1) The 2,300 Special Agents at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are allowed to carry AR-15’s, P90 tactical rifles, and other heavy weaponry. Recently, the IRS armed up with $1.2 million in new ammunition. This was in addition to the $11 million procurement of guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment procured between 2006-2014.
2) The Small Business Administration (SBA) spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to load its gun locker with Glocks last year. The SBA wasn’t alone – the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service modified their Glocks with silencers.
3) The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has a relatively new police force. In 1996, the VA had zero employees with arrest and firearm authority. Today, the VA has 3,700 officers, armed with millions of dollars’ worth of guns and ammunition including AR-15’s, Sig Sauer handguns, and semi-automatic pistols.
4) Meanwhile, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agents carry the same sophisticated weapons platforms used by our Special Forces military warriors. The HHS gun locker is housed in a new “National Training Operations Center” – a facility at an undisclosed location within the DC beltway.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2017/10/20/why-are-federal-bureaucrats-buying-guns-and-ammo-158-million-spent-by-non-military-agencies/
They would say that it’s precisely because of what happened at Brown that they oppose it. These people either honestly believe, in the face of all evidence and logic, that their disarming potential victims actually makes people safer, or else they put on a convincing act of believing that — and the best way to act convincingly like you believe something is to actually convince yourself that it’s true.
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