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FL: Parent of college-bound child worried about gun bill
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Bruce W. Krafft
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"While there appear to be at least three gun bills dancing through the NRA-controlled Florida Legislature, as a parent about to send a child off to a state university I am most concerned about the one that will allow students to carry concealed weapons on campus."
"It's irrational, but as you point out in your editorial, a dozen university police chiefs and a dozen university presidents are no match for the NRA's Marion Hammer. Nor for that matter are Florida citizens like me who support the chiefs and presidents." ... |
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Millwright66
(3/24/2015)
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| Who sends a "child" to college ? Traditionally incoming collegiate freshmen are of legal age. They can sign obligating contracts. They can serve in the military. They can operate a "lethal weapon" i.e. a motor vehicle. Seems to me these folks are far more concerned with the possible consequences of their failure to "properly parent" their offspring into adulthood. |
| Comment by:
lostone1413
(3/25/2015)
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| She could send the kid to VT no weapons allowed worked pretty good their |
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