https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFSG_V2DQXc Dr. John Lott testified before the Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of the Student Concealed Carry on College Campus Bill on March 7, 2023. Tennessee is a partial Campus Carry state where professors and staff...
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West Virginia is about to pass a Campus Carry, concealed carry of firearms on college campuses
A campus carry bill has passed the West Virginia legislature and is about to be signed by Gov. Jim Justice. The text of the bill is available here. . “When this bill comes to me, it won’t be with me but for a matter of seconds, because I’ll sign it,” Gov. Jim Justice...
What is the danger to allowing Concealed handguns on University property?: Shootings by permit holders from 2012 to May 2021
Remember that 12 states mandate that public universities allow permitted concealed handguns on public college campuses (the NCSL excludes Tennessee from their list because professors and staff and not students (except for graduate teaching assistants) are...
New piece at Townhall: Given Their Fear of Guns, How Have Professors Ever Gone Off Campus?
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. For decades, gun control advocates constantly claim that Right-to-Carry laws would lead to disaster. But when disasters don’t occur they move on to the next prediction of disaster. We have to keep track of these predictions...
CPRC in the Columbus Dispatch (Ohio) debating Campus Carry
Dr. John Lott debated Ohio State Rep. Kristin Boggs (D) about whether college campuses should be gun-free zones in the pages of the Columbus Dispatch. Rep. Boggs' piece is available here. Dr. Lott's is here: Ohio State University is still reeling from the attack...