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State lawmakers have introduced legislation to allow the concealed carry of guns on campus for the third consecutive year. Senator Plakon filed a bill for the 2017 legislature that would repeal the current ban on concealed weapons at state colleges and universities. Like years prior, students from both sides of the argument are playing a key role as the legislative session draws near.
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PHORTO
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All of the noise in opposition ignores two irrefutable facts:
1) No law will keep bad actors from carrying guns into any venue and committing violent felonies. Only people who are not so inclined are therefore affected, and negatively.
2) There is no evidence whatsoever from any of the eight states that allow unencumbered, licensed carry on college campuses that any of the dire prognistications perpetually invoked by opponents have happened. NONE.
The legislature should focus on these two facts, ignore the nonsensical noise of anti-liberty opponents, and pass this bill. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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