A Herd Becomes A Pack
By Mitch Berg
David Kopel notes that Colorado will now allow permitted concealed carry at its community colleges.
Colorado is joining Utah in allowing licensed carry at all state higher education campuses. As I detailed in Connecticut Law Review article, there have never been any problems caused by the Utah policy, or by licensed carry at Colorado State University, which has been in effect since 2003.
After an avalanche of nothing happens at Utah and Colorado schools, perhaps some common sense will prevail.
May 12th, 2010 at 8:46 am
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May 12th, 2010 at 10:55 am
Common sense? Maybe in the “I look at the effects of programs to determine whether they are efficacious and not how they make me feel” crowd, but for the DFL and its enablers? Never happen.
May 12th, 2010 at 11:14 am
Mitch, it looks like the U. of C. lost this one–this isn’t just community colleges, but rather also the Buffies and the Rams. Finally students can be safe from the 50 lb racoons that prowl Boulder, not to mention the hippies and derelicts.
May 12th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Just for the record, nerdbert, there are DFLers who are good on gun issues. When you get outside of the metro, that’s the tendency.
That said, it’s fair to predict that if some armed robber (not a student or staff member; a convicted violent felon, say, on probation) comes on campus and shoots somebody, the Brady Bunch and like-minded folks will blame that on the change in law.
I’m remembering, here, the Zach Ourada case, which our local antis used to try to argue that the MCPPA shouldn’t be re-passed by the lege, even though Ourada’s permit was utterly irrelevant.
May 12th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Granted, Joel. If you’re not in the metro area then the Democrats tend to be somewhat sane. Everyone in Vermont agreed on gun issues, even the Burlington socialists. Well, the Burlington folks were pretty much just preventing the rubes in the rest of the state from revolting and killing any electoral chance of the “progressives” from running the state. They always called gun control the third rail of Vermont politics for a reason.