So, the University of Colorado-Boulder will allow students to carry guns to class. In March, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled in favor of this - allowing students to bring guns into classes and labs.
A professor at Boulder - Jerry Peterson - said in response to this ruling - "My own personal policy in my classes is if I am aware that there is a firearm in the class -- registered or unregistered, concealed or unconcealed -- the class session is immediately canceled. I want my students to feel unconstrained in their discussions."
Chancellor Phillip P. DiStefano responded to Peterson with the following: "I have the utmost respect for Professor Peterson, who is an old friend and valued colleague, but I want to make clear that if a student carrying the weapon has a concealed-carry permit, the position implied by Professor Peterson's comments directly violates Colorado law and the operating principles of the campus."
That makes sense. I'm sure students, teachers and parents alike will feel very safe and secure in knowing there may very well be students carrying guns in classrooms. It won't prove to be a distraction at all. All college kids are mature and there's no chance of someone losing their cool and whipping out their gun or another seeing and stripping it from them. No, there's no chance of that at all. There's no chance of a college kid getting high or drunk before class and doing something they may later regret with regard to a loaded gun. Geez...at the rate we're going, we'll soon see laws passed which will make it legal for newborns to carry loaded rocket launchers in daycare.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/22/cu-boulder-chancellor-peterson-guns-on-campus_n_1822550.html
A professor at Boulder - Jerry Peterson - said in response to this ruling - "My own personal policy in my classes is if I am aware that there is a firearm in the class -- registered or unregistered, concealed or unconcealed -- the class session is immediately canceled. I want my students to feel unconstrained in their discussions."
Chancellor Phillip P. DiStefano responded to Peterson with the following: "I have the utmost respect for Professor Peterson, who is an old friend and valued colleague, but I want to make clear that if a student carrying the weapon has a concealed-carry permit, the position implied by Professor Peterson's comments directly violates Colorado law and the operating principles of the campus."
That makes sense. I'm sure students, teachers and parents alike will feel very safe and secure in knowing there may very well be students carrying guns in classrooms. It won't prove to be a distraction at all. All college kids are mature and there's no chance of someone losing their cool and whipping out their gun or another seeing and stripping it from them. No, there's no chance of that at all. There's no chance of a college kid getting high or drunk before class and doing something they may later regret with regard to a loaded gun. Geez...at the rate we're going, we'll soon see laws passed which will make it legal for newborns to carry loaded rocket launchers in daycare.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/22/cu-boulder-chancellor-peterson-guns-on-campus_n_1822550.html
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