Students resist Colorado State gun ban

It's good to see that people are finally starting to stand up and demand that their rights be preserved. When I was going to college at a small university in Eastern Washington I worked as a part-time Police Officer. I was living in university housing at the time and while campus policies prohibited firearms possession in the dorms, I had worked out an agreement with the Campus Police Chief that let me have my service sidearm in my room just prior to going on duty and just after ending my shift so that I wouldn't have to be unarmed while in uniform as I went to the Campus Police office to pick up my firearm. One day a member of the dorm staff saw me in uniform and armed in the dorm. They actually wrote me up and I was called into the office of the Dean of Housing. Luckily the Campus Police Chief set everything straight, but it goes to show how messed up the ideals of the anti-gun folks are.

I never understood the idea of a "Gun Free Zone", it seems to me that they should just call them what they are, "Victimization Zones". Active Shooters want to kill as many people in the shortest amount of time possible. They do not want to face the opposition that may be presented by a legally armed citizen. Which is why we will continue to see mass casuality shootings at facilities that insist on posting the silly "Weapons Free Zone" signs. Have we not learned the lessons of Pioneer High School in Moses Lake, WA, Columbine High School Littleton, CO, Virginia Tech, Tacoma Mall in Tacoma, WA, Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, UT, Ft. Hood Texas, etc., etc., etc.

Students resist Colorado State gun ban
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-guns-campus28-2009dec28,0,44959.story
Activists at the Fort Collins campus say a ban will make them more vulnerable to a Virginia Tech-style attack.

Reporting from Denver - After a gun-wielding student killed 32 at Virginia Tech, faculty at Colorado State University in Fort Collins found, to their alarm, that theirs was one of the few public schools in the
country with no policy banning firearms. Anyone with a concealed weapons permit could legally carry on campus.

Students, however, were alarmed when the faculty moved to change that.

Among other arguments, students contended that permitting people to carry concealed weapons was the campus' best defense against another tragedy.

"Let's say you have another Columbine or Virginia Tech," said Dan Gearhart, the student government president. "People want the ability to protect themselves."

Still, Colorado State's Board of Governors unanimously directed the presidents of the 22,000-student Fort Collins campus and the system's smaller campus in Pueblo to draw up weapon restriction policies. (The system also maintains what it calls its Global Campus online.) It cited a study by an association of campus police chiefs that concluded private firearms didn't help protect schools.