Tag: Campus Carry

Kent State University graduate Kaitlin Bennett posted a photo of herself walking on campus with an AR-10 demanding “#CampusCarryNow.”

State Rep. Tim Moore (R-Elizabethtown) says campus carry lets would-be attackers know that students at Kentucky’s publicly funded universities and colleges will offer armed resistance.

A violent felon at UT-Austin wanted to maintain a status quo leaving every law-abiding student in the classroom defenseless if under assault.

Law-abiding Californians can no longer buy ammunition out-of-state or possess an unregistered AR-15 with a bullet button accessory.

On the fifth anniversary of the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School a daughter of one of the school’s teachers said that campus carry “creates a dangerous environment” for students and teachers alike.

This month, college students across the country receive their final grades for the fall semester. It’s also time to assign a grade for a project that has quietly been succeeding in multiple states – concealed carry on college campuses.

The gunman who opened fire on Aztec High School wrote a manifesto in which he said he planned to take a classroom hostage and “go apesh*t.”

A Texas private university says it will add armed and unarmed security to shuttle buses following a shooting incident that occurred on campus Tuesday morning.

Michael Bloomberg boosted the finances of the gun control lobby by giving and/or spending over $50 million in 2014 alone.

The suspect who allegedly shot and killed a Texas Tech police officer on the night of October 9 was not old enough to legally carry a gun on campus via Texas’ campus carry law.

Houston area talk radio host and producer Kenneth Webster shared his thoughts on the early successes of Texas’ campus carry law and why California should match it in an article published by KPRC Radio.

Despite debate over campus carry, empirical evidence proves that law-abiding citizens with guns on campus are just that–law-abiding.

Georgia College held a meeting this week to address questions and concerns regarding campus carry–and one student showed up.

Prof. Kevin Willmott taught his first class this semester wearing a bulletproof vest to show his disapproval of Kansas’ new campus carry law.

One person showed up for a meeting at Augusta University which was designed to address questions and concerns surrounding campus carry.

Professor wore body armor to class to protest law allowing concealed carry permit holders to carry their guns on campus for self-defense.

College campus rape survivor Shayna Lopez-Rivas says pepper spray is not a sufficient defensive tool–women need guns.

A Texas community college professor in San Antonio arrived at class on the first day of a new law allowing concealed carry of handguns wearing protective body armor.

Antonia Okafor is a black graduate student who carries a gun for self-defense and some the New York Times readership is bothered by it.

District Judge Lee Yeakel dismissed a lawsuit brought brought against campus carry by three University of Texas professors.

University of West Georgia adjunct professor says arguments against campus carry are not “based on logic, history, or verified facts.”

Campus carry for self-defense on public college and university campuses is now legal in Georgia and Kansas.

Pennsylvania’s Senate passed legislation on June 28 to allow teachers and staff to be armed on K-12 campuses to defend themselves and the children in their classrooms.

On July 1, 2017, campus carry for law-abiding students at public colleges and universities goes into effect in Kansas.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is training faculty of Lakeland, Florida’s Southeastern University to carry concealed weapons for self-defense and is deputizing them to get around the state’s ban on campus carry.

With an estimated 20 Colorado school districts allowing armed teachers and teachers from other districts to be trained to carry now, Ceasefire Colorado’s Eileen McCarron suggests teachers should be disarmed because police miss their targets 4 out of 5 times.

On June 20 Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) suggested campus carry is stifling free speech at universities and colleges across America.

Democrat Jon Ossoff talks pro-gun but actually opposes Georgians’ right to self-defense on public college and university campuses.

Republican lawmakers in the Kansas House and Senate caved to Michael Bloomberg-funded gun control groups and voted to water down the Kansas campus carry law.

Many predicted professors would flee universities in KS and TX over campus carry but the hordes of resigning profs have not materialized.

Crime Prevention Research Center’s (CPRC) John Lott points out that police are convicted of gun crime at a higher rate than permit holders.

On May 16 the GOP-controlled Kansas Senate sent a bill back to committee to fine tune exemptions sought before campus carry takes effect.

NYT suggests it is a “bizarre premise” to push campus carry on grounds that allowing law-abiding students to shoot back makes them safer.

Beginning August 1, full-time faculty and staff possessing concealed carry permits will be able to carry guns for defense of themselves and their students at Cedarville University.

Late Thursday, Gov. Nathan Deal (R) signed campus carry into law, making campus carry the law of the land in one-fifth of the states.