Friday, February 26, 2010

CSU bans guns; sheriff objects


Colorado State University (Fort Collins, Colo.) is going to ban concealed weapons from its campus. To show how worried the college trustees really are, the ban doesn't go into effect until August 1. I'm interested in this, because I lived in Fort Collins in 1989.

What does Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden have to say about it? He advises students to ignore the rules set by the Board of Regents. Further, he says he will not jail any permit-holder who is arrested for legally carrying a concealed weapon with a permit issued by him.

Now that's my kind of sheriff! He is standing up for the Second Amendment and Colorado law that permits carrying concealed weapons in many public places.

Read these stories in the Fort Collins Coloradoan at www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010100224008 and in the Colorado Springs Gazette: www.gazette.com/opinion/state-94668-gun-ban.html

Colorado State University Police Chief Wendy Rich-Goldschmidt supports CSU's ban, so what will she do with prisoners who are to be transferred to the County Jail? Naturally, she supports it! It's her employer who created the ban! It's called, "How much longer would you like to work here?"
The ban is effectively an "administrative action." Anyone found on campus with a concealed weapon after the effective date on August 1, 2010, will be asked to store it or leave the campus. If they refuse, they might be subject to a trespassing charge.
Students for Concealed Carry on Campus is a national, non-partisan, grassroots organization comprised of over 40,000 college students, professors, college employees, parents of college students, and concerned citizens who believe that holders of state-issued concealed handgun licenses should be allowed the same measure of personal protection on college campuses that current laws afford them virtually everywhere else. SCCC has members in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. See http://www.concealedcampus.org/
When guns are outlawed, only the outlaws will have guns.

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