Two Wisconsin lawmakers have proposed a bill to allow students and staff to carry firearms on university campuses.
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The Republican-sponsored bill comes less than two weeks after a gunman killed nine people at a community college in Oregon. Other research studies have more to say: “‘The totality of the evidence based on educated judgments about the best statistical models suggests that right-to-carry laws are associated with substantially higher rates” of aggravated assault, robbery, rape and murder, [Stanford law professor] Donohue said in an interview with the Stanford Report.
“If people feel there might be a gun in the classroom, students have said that it makes them feel like they would be much more hesitant to raise controversial issues”, history professor and petition organizer Joan Neuberger told Daily Kos.
Democrats did not immediately return requests for comment on the proposed bill. He says he’s been working on it for several months, after violent incidents near the UW-Milwaukee campus. “Allowing armed participants in this type of discussion has the potential to lead to serious negative consequences”, said Conor Smyth, spokesman for the Wisconsin Technical College System. But the schools are allowed to ban weapons inside campus buildings.
As university officials lined up against a bill that would allow anyone with a concealed carry license to bring guns into buildings on college campuses, Gov. Scott Walker wouldn’t say Tuesday whether he supports the proposal.
“Crime is on the rise around the campus, and there is nothing stopping [criminals] because these students walking to campus are disarmed”. We oppose any legislation that would allow citizens to legally carry concealed weapons inside university buildings. “We’re disarming them and allowing these thugs free reign over the neighborhood”. The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one school that has posted signs banning weapons at entrances to every building on campus.
Kremer, who authored the bill with Sen.
“Everybody isn’t going to carry anyway… but this is an individual right”, the sheriff said.
Students at UW-Madison clearly were wary of the idea in their remarks on social media Tuesday.
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Republicans argue that not only is the waiting period unnecessary since background checks come back to dealers within an hour, but that the measure also serves to leave victims aiming to protect themselves with a firearm defenseless.
