Search Results: Guns On Campus

• Update: NIU releases names of shooter and victims

  Posted on February 14, 2008 by Archive
  

  The shooter that killed five Northern Illinois University students yesterday has been identified as 27-year old Stephen P. Kazmierczak. Kazmierczak attended the university in Spring 2007 as a graduate student, and was enrolled this semester at the University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign.

  Posted in NEWS

• Please, no guns on campus.

  Posted on February 14, 2008 by Archive
  

  This morning the Idaho Senate State Affair Committee considered a bill that would preclude Idaho schools from banning concealed weapons. The bill was sent back to its drafters due to many technicality issues. However, there is a strong intent by interest groups that leads me to believe that this bill (or others like it) will again go before the Idaho Legislature.

  Posted in OPINION

• Will we have guns on campus?

  Posted on February 14, 2008 by Archive
  

  On Feb. 6 a new piece of state legislation was introduced which would further our Second Amendment right. Senate bill 1381 would allow individuals with a concealed weapons permit to carry a gun on campus.

  Utah is currently the only state in which the state board of education is not allowed to set rules or provisions which would be contrary to the rules set forth by state legislation concerning firearm regulation.

  Posted in OPINION

• Guns on campus

  Posted on February 14, 2008 by Archive
  

  As Idaho lawmakers consider allowing students with concealed firearms permits to bring their guns to campus, it seems wise to examine the stated rationales for such a drastic change in public policy.

  Proponents of the measure argue that students should be able to defend themselves in case of violent incidents such as the school shootings at Columbine, Red Lake and, more recently, Virginia Tech.

  Posted in OPINION