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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