Monday, September 17, 2012

Radford Board of Visitors passes new reg barring concealed guns in buildings & outdoor events


The Radford Board of Visitors took the unquestionably concerning step on Friday of banning concealed high-powered killing devices (i.e. guns) inside of campus buildings and outdoor school events.[1] The vote was 9-5 in favor of banning guns from university events outdoors as well as buildings.

However, individuals will still be able to carry guns on Radford’s grounds.

The vote at Radford comes a year after Virginia’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced that institutions must pass a regulation to limit the use of concealed guns by legal permit holders.[2]

As straight-forward as it seems, the new regulation may cause a good deal of confusion among concealed firearms permit holders, however. On the one hand, permit holders can have concealed firearms on school grounds, but they can’t bring those firearms inside of school buildings or to outdoor school events. Will there be a concealed firearm drop-off somewhere on campus?

Needless to say, this is another chapter in the ongoing debate over gun rights versus individual safety.[3]

Virginia may be one of the experimental playgrounds for this issue, to test the resolve of Americans to stand by one interpretation of the Constitution, or to cede to the idea that the Founding Fathers didn’t have automatic weapons in mind when that great document was written.

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