Kaine to Await Panel's Advice on Carrying Guns on Campus

[ZeSpectre]

ABC News

Kaine to Await Panel's Advice on Carrying Guns on Campus
RICHMOND, Va. - Thursday May 31, 2007 10:49 am

Governor Tim Kaine says he will await the recommendation of a panel reviewing last month's Virginia Tech massacre to decide whether to allow people with gun permits to take firearms on college campuses.

On his monthly radio call-in show on WRVA in Richmond, Kaine voiced no enthusiasm for the idea. He says it's an issue he's left up to the presidents of Virginia's state-supported colleges and universities.

And so far, he says none of them have thought allowing people with permits to carry concealed firearms on campus was a good idea.

But the issue is among several a panel headed by former State Police Superintendent Gerald Massengill is examining.

The panel will forward its findings and recommendations to the governor later this summer, and if allowing holders of gun permits to carry their weapons on campus, he says he'd consider it.

"none of them have thought allowing people with permits to carry concealed firearms on campus was a good idea"... yeah because those same people have wreaked so much havoc while carrying -off- campus. :banghead:

 

[Prince Yamato]

He's basically saying that he's NOT going to sign it. It's going before university officials... yeah, like they'll sign. They're the ones who sent out emails as a warning about the school shooting. It's also going before a police superintendent, who will probably say, "no", because he'd never admit the failure of police to respond to the situation.

 

[Avenger29]

We had a bill in the SC legislature recently to allowed CCW on campus. The Kampus Kops and other idiots fussed until it got chopped to only allowing guns to be kept in cars.

 

[obxned]

Some people are slow learners, real slow!

 

[Standing Wolf]

Some people are slow learners, real slow!

The problem is that they're never the people who pay the price for their bad—and often deliberately bad—decisions.

 

[eric_t12]

+1, legal to carry other places = legal to carry in a 'institution of higher learning'. do your rights diminish in the light of the school or something?

 

[obxned]

Anything that is done by a panel or committee would have a more favorable outcome if done by the use of an ouija board and a fifth of liquor.

 

[Prince Yamato]

Anything that is done by a panel or committee would have a more favorable outcome if done by the use of an ouija board and a fifth of liquor.

I think the university would rather rely on their "Jump to Conclusions" mat.

 

[jjminch]

I'm surprised AZ doesn't allow us to carry on campuses. Gun Laws are pretty lax here in the wild west.