Rapists beware.
Via Courier Journal:
Students at the University of Louisville and Kentucky’s other public universities should be allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus, a state lawmaker says.
“Law-abiding citizens have a right to protect themselves,” said state Rep. Tim Moore, R-Elizabethtown, adding that college campuses, where shootings have become more frequent in recent years, may be one of the riskier places a student ever goes.
House Bill 210 would prohibit Kentucky’s publicly funded colleges and universities from restricting a person’s ability to possess a gun on campus if the person has a license to carry a concealed deadly weapon. It would also limit state and local governments’ ability to impose such restrictions on buildings they own, with the exception of courtrooms and detention facilities.
“People who have evil intent look for ways to perpetrate their evil intentions in a place … where there is going to be the least possibility of resistance,” said Moore, who filed similar legislation last year.
But state Rep. Attica Scott, D-Louisville, believes allowing more guns on college campuses and in government buildings could lead to deaths.
“I see that as making us less safe,” she said. “I look up in the (House) chambers and I’m thinking, ‘Wow, what if someone up in the chambers has a gun and they’re upset about a piece of legislation that we’ve passed and they decide to open fire?’ We’re a captive audience.”
HT: Jenn