Georgia governor approves carrying concealed guns on campus
Source: Associated Press
Kathleen Foody, Associated Press Updated 11:13 pm, Thursday, May 4, 2017
ATLANTA (AP) Gov. Nathan Deal signed legislation Thursday allowing people with permits to carry concealed handguns on Georgia's public college campuses, despite the objections of state university leaders and his own veto of a campus-carry measure last year.
Deal shocked fellow Republicans with the tone of last year's veto message, which referenced opposition to guns on the University of Virginia campus by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and an opinion by the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia that described schools as "sensitive places" under the Second Amendment.
The governor signed this year's version without a public ceremony, explaining in a written message released Thursday evening that he was swayed by the addition of campus locations where concealed handguns won't be allowed.
These include on-campus preschools, faculty or administrative offices, disciplinary hearings and areas attended by high school students who take college classes.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Georgia-governor-approves-carrying-concealed-guns-11122604.php
Doreen
(11,686 posts)louis-t
(23,292 posts)They even allow people to carry guns at NRA events.....what? They don't? The Dickens, you say!
FairWinds
(1,717 posts)symptoms of depression during their college years.
What could possibly go wrong?
And from the department of "What's good for the goose . ."
we also need to have guns in all legislative chambers
and court rooms.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)The fuck are they trying to accomplish?!?!