Arizona may actually do what a lot of gun-rights advocates have been urging:
A committee of the Arizona Legislature is weighing arguments made today over a proposal to let people with permits to carry concealed weapons bring guns to K-12 schools, community colleges and universities.
The Senate's Judiciary Committee listened to more than two hours of testimony about the proposal, but didn't take a vote.
The testimony came four days after a gunman opened fire during a lecture at Northern Illinois University, killing five young people before turning a gun on himself.
It's not like the gun-free-zone thing has been working, is it? But this article also contains a good argument against concealed-carry in schools that has to be answered: "Opponents say police officers urgently responding to a school shooting might have difficulty distinguishing innocent permit-holders from the gunman."
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When's the last time it hasn't been effectively over by the time the police actually *went in*?
I am not personally aware of any situations that this has been a major problem in so far.
Considering most teachers would be a lot better dressed (or should be), I would think that any LEO that goes in would have a much easier time picking out the perp...don't you?
I can't see any teacher wearing all black with a long trenchcoat teaching ANY subject (even a liberal art).
Time for some "Harry Senate" problem-solving.
(gratuitous Boston Public reference)
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B.G.