TN College Employee Carry Bill

[JAB]

22 hours ago, 300winmag said:

I don't think the politicians really wanted people to carry on college campuses.  It is an election year so they wanted to bump their NRA ratings and look pro gun.  The politicians made the law so complicated and such a mess that it is either unappealing to carry through the whole campus police notification requirement for public colleges or your private colleges flat out will not give permission.   None of the surrounding states that have legal college carry went about it this stupid.  In the surrounding states (with college carry), if you have a permit, you are legal. 

You are probably right.  In fact, as long as a 'permit', fees, jumping through hoops and so on are required to carry in this state then HCP holders should have the same rights/restrictions for carry as police officers - at least off duty police officers.  The way it is now is downright stupid because even after all the background checks and so on, the state is basically saying that we are trustworthy enough to carry around the general public, including children, parents, teachers and others, in Walmart, at the gas station, in restaurants and walking down the sidewalk but stepping through the door of a school (or a government building - I find it sadly ironic that the driver's services centers where we go to renew our HCPs in person are posted) suddenly makes us dangerous and untrustworthy to carry around those same children, parents, teachers and others.  There is absolutely no logic to that - not that I expect the government at any level to be logical..

[300winmag]

Yep, if the politicians claim that we need to be trained, finger printed, and checked out to carry a handgun in public, then we should be qualified to carry a handgun anywhere off duty LEO's can carry in this state, such as school property.  You can't be qualified to carry in Wal Mart but not qualified to carry at a college.  Both locations are in public.

Unfortunately, most of these decisions are based on emotion instead of facts.  How else is it legal for a hunter ed instructor or school shooting team or working armed guards to have guns on school property, but someone with a handgun carry permit cannot carry.  So they can't say we are somehow unqualified when there are many other exceptions to the no guns on school property law in TN.

Edited June 28, 2016 by 300winmag