Kudos to The Advertiser for this article, which spells out problems with a bill that would allow concealed guns on college campuses. House Bill 199 was approved by a panel last week.
While a House committee advanced the bill, sending it to the full House for consideration, opposition to the bill is widespread. During the committee hearing, most of the students who testified opposed the legislation.
Presidents of the University of Louisiana System and Community and Technical College System campuses have adopted resolutions opposing the bill.
Campus police chiefs from across the state have expressed opposition. Cinnamon Salvador, chief of campus police at McNeese State University, called the theory that armed students could have stopped campus shootings "fantasy." He said guns carried by students "would more likely be used against each other."
The Louisiana Council of Student Body Presidents has adopted a resolution opposing House Bill 199. COSBP is composed of the student body and student bar association presidents of all Louisiana public colleges and universities. In the resolution, the student leaders said they have discussed the need for more campus police, more training of students and faculty and more resources for campus police officers. They said, however, they "do not feel that the proliferation of handguns on campuses or the arming of students and faculty would prevent or curtail violence on campuses but, rather, would increase the risk of such violence."
More of this. Less of this. Please.
