Students Fight University for Right to Pack Guns

A Colorado State University campus determined to stop shooting
rampages by banning guns is meeting angry opposition from students who
are determined to protect their right to pack firearms. Many claim that
armed citizens are the best hope of stopping violence, according to
T-shirts sprouting on the Fort Collins campus. The issue is so heated
that a board vote planned for today may be postponed. A campus council
representing 22,000 students overwhelmingly voted against the ban, and
the students are being backed by gun rights organizations, reports the Independent.

The battle is heating up just weeks after a professor shot dead 3
people on the University of Alabama campus. Universities across the
nation have debated campus gun restrictions since a crazed Virginia
Tech student shot dead 32 people 3 years ago. One of the most notable
regulation changes since then occurred in Utah where university
officials voted to lift a gun ban on their campuses.