Arizona defies public opinion, passes guns on campus bill


Two days after the Jan. 8 Tucson shootings, as Rep. Gabrielle Giffords lay in a medically induced coma, Arizona’s House of Representatives introduced the session’s very first piece of legislation: a bill allowing college professors to carry concealed weapons on campus, the Huffington Post reports. A similar bill, SB 1467, which would allow anyone to carry a gun on the sidewalks and roads of public universities, sailed through the House last Thursday, despite the fact that the majority of Arizonans oppose sending guns to college…

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