The governing board of the Maricopa County Community College Board passed a resolution this week opposing SB1474 and SB1479, bills that would allow guns on campus.
The resolution says the district "is gravely concerned that, in an active shooter situation on campus, having additional people with weapons could result in further chaos and carnage by delaying law enforcement's ability to identify the active shooter."
The board's vote was 4-0, with one member absent.
The resolution asks the Legislature to turn back SB1474, which would allow permit holders to bring weapons on campus, and SB1479, which would prohibit the board from adopting policies or regulations that would prevent disruption of the colleges through use or possession of a firearm.
With its action, board members join other leaders of higher education in strong opposition to the proposal.
In_God_We_Trust posted at 3:59 pm on Thu, Feb 9, 2012.
What a joke argument this is. "having additional people with weapons could result in further chaos and carnage by delaying law enforcement's ability to identify the active shooter." Wont be hard to tell at all if he or she is laying in a pool of their own blood cause some law abiding gun toting citizen practices good gun control. Never seems to be the problem anywhere else people are allowed to carry guns, but all this confusion will happen on campus? Pretty lame argument, but I guess it was all the could come up with. Besides, as we all know, the police are only minutes away when seconds count and almost always there right after all the excitement is over. There best training is in mopping up after the fact.
BTW, if you want to learn about gun control watch this video: http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/gun_control.html
one of the last posted at 4:34 pm on Thu, Feb 9, 2012.
With all the gun happy idiots running around a college campus first thing will happen is 1 shooter will shoot and then they will all pull out their guns and twenty shooters will be on campus and it will be the same as ft hood only ten times worse because it wont be action ready military looking for the right one it will be scard kids shooting anything that moves.
Rational Human posted at 6:28 pm on Thu, Feb 9, 2012.
You have to be 21 to own a gun or to carry concealed, and college students aren't your typical conceal carry type people, so the chances of a multitude of scared children shooters pulling out there guns like in the old western movies or the Fort Hood incident is just another lame gun grabber excuse to deny the people their constitutional rights. My guess is very few people will want to use there right to carry on campus. Did you mean scared kids or are you referring to fragmented or schizophrenic kids when you say scard? Carrying a gun means you don't have to be afraid.