Legislation to allow law-abiding college students to be armed on campus for self-defense has cleared the New Hampshire House and will now be weighed by the Senate.
The legislation, HB 1793, is sponsored by state Rep. Sam Farrington (R).
WCAX reported Farrington saying, “New Hampshire is a constitutional carry state, which means you do not need a permission slip to exercise your right to bear arms.”
He added, “Colleges students can fight in a war, they can vote, so they should be entitled to their Second Amendment rights as well.”
Currently, approximately ten states have campus carry. (There were 11 such states until Democrats in Colorado banned campus carry for self-defense in the summer of 2024.)
Farrington responded to naysayers who claim campus carry leads to firearm incidents by saying, “We’ve seen no increase in accidental shootings, suicides, drunken fights; it just hasn’t happened in those other states.”
Seacoast Online noted that state Sen. Bill Gannon (R) is “scared” about firearms being kept in dorms.
Gannon stressed concerns over students and guns in the housing facilities, but he did not cite a single incident that has occurred in a dorm in any of the current campus carry states.
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