Aug 26 - University of Colorado allows students to carry guns

August 26 - University of Colorado allows students to carry guns - ThatHustle.com
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The University of Colorado is allowing its students to carry concealed guns with them on campus. As long as students are 21 or older and have a license to carry a weapon, they can bring guns with them to cla#s, the bookstore, and the quad.

The state Supreme Court in March ruled against a 1994 campus ban on firearms. Guns are still banned from sporting events and in dorm rooms on the Boulder campus, but students who insist on having a gun with them at all times are able to request graduate level housing.

“Residence hall students who have a concealed carry permit or who obtain [one] under Colorado law during the housing contract period may seek to be relocated to a University Apartment (if space is available) or be released from the residence hall contract without financial penalty,” reads a statement by the university.

The new rules have caused concern among a number of parents and students of the university, who worry about their safety after gunman James Holmes shot 70 people in an Aurora theater this summer.

“I definitely would not feel safe if they allowed guns on campus, in the halls. I would not be comfortable with that at all,” Cindy Rosethal, a mother of a freshman at the university, told National Public Radio.

“Especially with what happened in Aurora a couple of weeks ago, and Virginia Tech, and all of the stuff that’s happened on college campuses now… You never know what’s going to happen,” said incoming freshman Joe Ramsburger.

On Tuesday, Professor Jerry Paterson threatened to cancel cla#s if he knew of any of his students carrying a firearm in his presence.

In response, the university’s chancellor, Phillip DiStefano, threatened disciplinary action against faculty who prohibited their students from carrying guns in cla#s.

“I believe we have taken reasonable steps to adhere to the ruling of the Colorado Supreme Court, while balancing that with the priority of providing a safe environment for our students, faculty and staff,” the chancellor said in a statement.

While some are fearful of a possible increased presence of guns on campus, others say that allowing guns is necessary for individuals’ safety – and that allowing concealed firearms would not cause a spike in firearm-related crimes.

“The Aurora theater where the Batman shooting occurred also had a gun-free policy,” said Jim Manley, an attorney who argued against banning guns on the Colorado university’s campus. “But these policies don’t disarm criminals, they disarm law-abiding citizens who see the sign and respect the law and say, ‘I’m not going to carry in this place because the law doesn’t allow it.’”

Deb Coffin, vice chancellor for student affairs, said those with a gun permit know how to use the weapon they carry, and thereby would be less likely to cause a shooting. She said the university’s concern is about those not experienced or trained in the use of a handgun.

The university also claims that 96 percent of its undergraduates living in dormitories are under the age of 21, and thus ineligible to have a permit for a firearm. The new regulations would therefore only affect a small portion of on-campus undergraduate residents, the statement read.

The majority of the more than 4,000 US colleges prevent carrying guns on campus, but about 25 schools already allow them, according to armedcampuses.org.

Source: RT

August 26 - University of Colorado allows students to carry guns - ThatHustle.com

08-26-2012, 09:12 AM

And here I thought the Colorado shooting was going to take away guns[pic]

Not liking this at all, but after NYPD's monumental fail at hitting the broadside of a barn, I guess civies can do no worse.

08-26-2012, 03:24 PM

Good. It's their constitutional right

08-26-2012, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by tfc1193

Good. It's their constitutional right

Damn right!!

Guns don't k#ll people, people k#ll people.

08-26-2012, 04:50 PM

guns dont k#ll people...dangerous minorities do...

08-26-2012, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by mikesaimname

guns dont k#ll people...dangerous minorities do...

Like the majority white wack jobs that shoot up theaters and schools! FOH[pic][pic]

08-26-2012, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by FoShizzle8

yeah because black people are to busy shooting each other in the ghetto

isn't that what you crackers want? [pic]

08-26-2012, 07:16 PM

Originally Posted by ~ k#lla KaZi ~

isn't that what you crackers want? [pic]

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They dont know what they want....They call us Ni99ers for 500 + years to degrade us then we start calling each other ni99az they feel some type of way, We accept welfare, medicade, and food stamps and agree to stay at a lower level of society now they bytching because we gettin everything for free, we stopped saggin and put on polos and jeans that fit now they calling niccaz who dress nice thugs and hoodlums, shyt.........I bet if we did go back to Africa they'd say we turned our backs on America.....Make up yall phucking minds and jump up off our d*cks.....

08-26-2012, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by stlcardinals19

And here I thought the Colorado shooting was going to take away guns[pic]

Not liking this at all, but after NYPD's monumental fail at hitting the broadside of a barn, I guess civies can do no worse.

something tells me we gonna find out before the year is out [pic]

08-26-2012, 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by whyarguewithgod

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They dont know what they want....They call us Ni99ers for 500 + years to degrade us then we start calling each other ni99az they feel some type of way, We accept welfare, medicade, and food stamps and agree to stay at a lower level of society now they bytching because we gettin everything for free, we stopped saggin and put on polos and jeans that fit now they calling niccaz who dress nice thugs and hoodlums, shyt.........I bet if we did go back to Africa they'd say we turned our backs on America.....Make up yall phucking minds and jump up off our d*cks.....

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08-26-2012, 08:38 PM

it's their right and someone will definitely take time to think before they shoot up a cla#s on campus because niccas packing...plus the average age for students at colleges are 27 so college students aren't as stupid or immature as the media makes them out to be

and they seem to hit it on the head, you can carry to cla#s, common places around campus and must be 21 years old which is cool, if you live on campus and need to carry, you can move to graduate living...people want to be safe everywhere so this is good

PROPS FOR LIVING UP TO THE CONSTITUTION

08-26-2012, 09:34 PM

Originally Posted by whyarguewithgod

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They dont know what they want....They call us Ni99ers for 500 + years to degrade us then we start calling each other ni99az they feel some type of way, We accept welfare, medicade, and food stamps and agree to stay at a lower level of society now they bytching because we gettin everything for free, we stopped saggin and put on polos and jeans that fit now they calling niccaz who dress nice thugs and hoodlums, shyt.........I bet if we did go back to Africa they'd say we turned our backs on America.....Make up yall phucking minds and jump up off our d*cks.....

This post is filled with so much bull!! it's sad and is exactly what's wrong with our community now.

1. White people called us ******s to degrade us and yet stupid mother!!ers use it as a term of endearment and then try to justify it. That's absolutely retarded.

2. You accept welfare, medicaid and food stamps? Accept? There's nothing better out there for you? Nothing better worth working towards? You have to accept handouts? You agree to live at the bottom? I go out and get my own.

3. How you dress has nothing to do with anything. Even dogs wear clothes. As if dudes in polos don't run around acting out every stereotype that exists.

4. Africans wouldn't want !! to do with black Americans. They, along with most blacks from around the world, look at black Americans as lazy bums. They see no reason to have all this opportunity and yet spend so much time !!ing about circumstances that can be overcome.

You bring a black man from anywhere else in the world and put him in America and he thrives. Take a black American and set him loose in this country and see how much whining and !!ing he does about the conditions rather than trying to make something of himself.

08-26-2012, 10:17 PM

wow^ very good rebuttal

08-27-2012, 02:06 AM

Originally Posted by tfc1193

Good. It's their constitutional right

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08-27-2012, 02:08 AM

Glad I go to university in Canada!

08-27-2012, 02:14 AM

[pic] More schools need to do this.

08-27-2012, 02:33 AM

Originally Posted by ima80baby

This post is filled with so much bull!! it's sad and is exactly what's wrong with our community now.

1. White people called us ******s to degrade us and yet stupid mother!!ers use it as a term of endearment and then try to justify it. That's absolutely retarded.

2. You accept welfare, medicaid and food stamps? Accept? There's nothing better out there for you? Nothing better worth working towards? You have to accept handouts? You agree to live at the bottom? I go out and get my own.

3. How you dress has nothing to do with anything. Even dogs wear clothes. As if dudes in polos don't run around acting out every stereotype that exists.

4. Africans wouldn't want !! to do with black Americans. They, along with most blacks from around the world, look at black Americans as lazy bums. They see no reason to have all this opportunity and yet spend so much time !!ing about circumstances that can be overcome.

You bring a black man from anywhere else in the world and put him in America and he thrives. Take a black American and set him loose in this country and see how much whining and !!ing he does about the conditions rather than trying to make something of himself.

My Uncle Tom is that you? [pic]

08-27-2012, 06:20 AM

Originally Posted by lifeundthescope

My Uncle Tom is that you? [pic]

the oreo is confused

08-27-2012, 06:30 AM

Originally Posted by stlcardinals19

And here I thought the Colorado shooting was going to take away guns[pic]

Not liking this at all, but after NYPD's monumental fail at hitting the broadside of a barn, I guess civies can do no worse.

Oh !!! [pic]

08-27-2012, 06:52 AM

Originally Posted by tfc1193

Good. It's their constitutional right

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I wonder how likely a guy is to shoot up a room or school, when there might be another dude with a gun in the room [pic]

I don't see too many shootings in Texas [pic]

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