ElTigre wrote:In purely practical terms, if a kid did that with me, i'd interpret it as vaguely threatening, and I'd probably have to hit the security button, because, in NC, carrying on a college campus is against the law, even if you have a CCW (I think).
Sir,
Posted: February 10, 2009
NCSU students want to pack heat on campus
Raleigh, N.C. — Some North Carolina State University students are wearing empty gun holsters on campus this week to protest a state law prohibiting them from carrying concealed weapons on campus.
"Everyone should be given a right to defend themselves no matter where they are," said Daryl Johnson, a member of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, a national group that gained attention in the wake of the massacre of 32 students on the Virginia Tech campus in April 2007.
"We are just trying to show that we are law-abiding citizens. We carry off campus, or we support carrying off campus," Johnson said.
Nearly 128,000 concealed carry permits have been issued in North Carolina since 1995, including 8,300 in Wake County, according to the State Bureau of Investigation.
About 20 members of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus are taking part in the empty holster protest this week, he said. Similar protests are expected on other college campuses in North and South Carolina and Virginia, he said.
Chief Tom Younce of the N.C. State campus police said he disagrees with the effort to pack heat on campus, but he said his officers won't interfere with the protest.
"We're a very close-knit organization, the university is. You've got about 8,000 to 9,000 students living close on campus – in dorm rooms – (and) I don't think it's a good idea (to allow concealed weapons)," Younce said.
Any changes to the rules would have to come from state lawmakers.
"I believe that the more people you see with a weapon, the more acceptable it's going to be. It's not going to have that stigma that, 'Oh my gosh, it's bad,'" Johnson said.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/4512231/
The facts: Students for Concealed Carry on Campus is a student organization whose main purpose is to promote a policy change allowing for concealed firearms to be carried on campus. The only current exemptions to the restriction on firearms apply to Centennial Campus private housing, the College of Natural Resources, and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
http://www.technicianonline.com/viewpoi ... -1.2699935
Any professor of mine has had an armed student in his classroom. When I was at Vincennes, two girls disappeared at separate times. They were later found murdered. I was not going to be unarmed.
You will have armed citizens in your classroom once they allow it (and they
will allow it, Sir).
The only mistake of this fool in the original post was advertising it. Gun folks often assume that because they know guns, others will know them well enough to take kindly to their being armed. This is rarely the case, and it is why I carry concealed as a rule now. In Indiana, were I to carry openly, there would be no legal action taken against me, as there is no legal action provided for carrying openly here.
I simply do not want to scare the public at large... though come to think of it, the times I
did carry openly years back, all was well, too. No strange looks and the pistol was ignored. Folks acted no differently toward me.
That feller said some strange things and would bear watching, I think, but most likely he just got his permit and was somewhat puffed up and proud that he did.
It's a permutation of the "Mark of Cain syndrome". Chances are he'll settle down and feel real dumb after a bit.
Josh
