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FL: Campus Carry Debate Arrives on Campus Again
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Website: http://libertyparkpress.com
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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
(1/23/2017)
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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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Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. — James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46 |
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