s*********8 发帖数: 901 | 1 PHOENIX – A proposal to let people have guns while driving or walking
through state university and community college campuses cleared its final
hurdle in the Arizona Legislature on Thursday.
The House passed the bill on a 33-24 vote, which will send it to Gov. Jan
Brewer.
The Senate previously approved the measure, after watering it down to no
longer allow guns inside campus buildings. But the bill still sparked sharp
debate before Thursday's House vote.
State Rep. Bob Robson said guns on campuses are a bad idea because students
and others experience such emotional highs and lows due to grades, exams and
other circumstances.
"To make it that you could walk up to the door of an education institution (
with a gun) makes no sense to me," he said.
But supporters said the bill would help people defend themselves from gun
violence by someone who won't heed a campus's firearms ban.
"I find it hard to believe that on universities it just becomes a bubble —
that somehow you're drastically protected when you enter the campus,"
Democratic Rep. David Gowan said.
The Texas Senate on Thursday cut off debate on a broader campus-guns bill
that, like the original Arizona measure, would allow holders of concealed-
weapons permits to carry concealed weapons in classrooms.
If the Texas legislation passes, the state would become the second,
following Utah, to pass such a broad-based law. Colorado gives colleges the
option to allow handguns. | s****i 发帖数: 2993 | 2 gun killings have happened on many campus where they were not okay. |
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