Posted September 30, 2019 12:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Arkansas is one of many states where people who are authorized to carry a firearm can do so on college campuses, people who have undergone the extensive background checks required for concealed carry permits. In the case of college students with carry permits, a massive percentage of them are military veterans who have been trusted with carrying far more firepower than a concealed carry weapon and done so responsibly.

So far, campus carry hasn’t been an issue. We haven’t seen the countless deaths we were assured would follow if we started allowing students to carry firearms. In fact, things have been calm pretty much everywhere.

But that fact isn’t stopping one Arkansas activist and his fellow travelers from trying to overturn campus carry in the state.

An initiated act to let state colleges and universities decide whether to allow concealed carry firearms on campus is likely to go to the 2020 ballot, an organizer of several successful ballot initiatives told a crowd of about 150 people Saturday.

“People are polling over it, and if those polls show what we expect then there will be a guns-on-campus initiated act to return local control to each college and university,” said David Couch of …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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