Ohio Lawmakers Move Forward on Campus Carry Legislation

By Jenn Jacques

Following the terrorist attack on the Ohio State University campus this week, lawmakers in Ohio are using the lame duck session to give state universities the discretion to make their own rules about such guns on campus.

The Buckeyes for Concealed Carry petition on Change.org, which is over halfway to it’s 1000 signature goal, makes a compelling case, saying:

The authority to regulate firearms on our public property should lie with the general assembly, not some appointed group of individuals who are not accountable to the people of Ohio through the election process.

Furthermore, the right to carry on college campuses should be restored. None of the states where is it currently practiced have experience any intentional act of violence by a licensee.

The effort to advance the right to carry on campus is joined by a very glamorous ally: former Miss Ohio Madison Gesiotto. Gesiotto, who is currently in the final year of pursuing her J.D. at The Michael E. Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University, said she had friends in Watt’s Hall Monday morning at the time of the attack.

In an opinion piece published in the Washington Times yesterday, Gesiotto employed readers to support campus carry, saying:

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