(MN) School board wants to ban firearms from school district parking lots

[tyme]

http://www.mnsun.com/story.asp?city=Richfield&story=127654

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The AMSD platform also calls for a change to the state’s concealed handgun permit law that would allow school boards to ban firearms on all district property. The current statute allows permit-holders to carry guns in school parking lots. The AMSD is proposing to allow districts to prohibit guns from parking lots, as well.
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Grrrr. No guns inside. No guns outside. What do they expect ccw holders to do with weapons? Toss them into a gutter before turning into a school parking lot?

 

[foghornl]

Just make sure that the law applies to EVERYONE...including the police.

 

[mpthole]

Sounds like the school district is following the lead of a few churches. Hopefully, since the law specifically allows for permit holders to be in school parking lots and the fact that schools are public property (unlike churches) this thing will go nowhere.

 

[jfh]

and a couple of other things:

first, Richfield is a first-ring suburb, built up in the late Forties and Fifties. Minority expansion has been in that area, and there have been some gang-related shootings, etc. as well.

Second, as the initial hullabaloo over the enactment of the MN RTC law passed in late May died down, there still seems to be a lingering resentment on the part of the uneducated populace (the people who don't care, IOW) that guns are available in the public. They truly don't get the idea that the BGs already had their guns....

Note that the popular press have NOT done any "six-months later" updates, with or without a bias in them--the non-interested public is not learning more.

No one knows for sure, but seeing this move just a few days after the MN Churches gaining standing in their lawsuit makes me think that the anti-gunners here (already acknowledged to be among the most vociferous in the nation) have a very calculated long-term strategy going to come in with a blast when the legislature gets going shortly, and to make a very high-powered attempt to get the law repealed.

So, let's see what happens--

 

[Sportcat]

In South Carolina CWP holders (and all others) are forbidden from carrying on K-12 and higher education property.

Since I work at a University, I can't even carry in my car on the way to work. :banghead:

 

[Standing Wolf]

To give credit where credit's due: Minnesota's leftist extremist anti-Second Amendment bigots are a persistent lot.

 

[Swamprabbit]

I think KY came up with a good model to go with regarding firearms on school property (remember, Paducah was the site of one of the worst school shootings back a few years ago). Ky does forbid the carrying of firearms on any primary (k-12) school property. However, you are allowed to have firearms in your vehicle as long as they remain in the vehicle and aren't brandished - in other words, don't show it.

I remember when the law was passed and people successfuly argued that they didn't want parents arrested for a felony just because they forgot to take the hunting rifles out of the truck before taking little Johnny to school.

Boy, I do love KY!