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Campus administrators discuss ‘Guns on Campus’

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Campus administrators discuss ‘Guns on Campus’

Despite a recent push from gun advocates statewide, campus administrators said they will continue to shoot down the concept of students being allowed to carry firearms on campus.
“It doesn’t mean that we don’t believe in Second Amendment rights, there are just places where it is not a good choice,” said Vice President for Student Services Graydon Stanley.
Stanley compared carrying a gun on campus to carrying a gun on a plane or in a county courthouse where the right is temporarily suspended for greater safety.
“We are a public entity as well,” Stanley said.
The response came after rumors in Idaho’s capitol arose last month about whether or not freshmen Republican representatives would attempt to resurrect the failed “Guns on Campus” bill that would have forbade colleges across the state to prohibit students from carrying firearms on campus.
The bill was not without some student support.
“The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” said Jessie Stinton, 23, History, Nampa. “If Campus Safety or students were armed I personally would feel safer.”
NIC Vice President for Marketing and Communications Mark Browning said that while many of the gun-carry bills up for discussion in Boise predominantly apply only to k-12 schools, the college will continue to monitor the political temperature closely.
“All of the gun bills that have run so far have maintained that the final element of policy setting resides with the local school district and that’s been our position here at NIC,” Browning said. “Whatever directive may or may not come down, we want to retain the authority to make that policy here with our local board of trustees.”
Stanley said he hopes elected authorities will keep that in mind.
“We have a strong sense that that’s a decision that we need to make, not the legislature in Boise,” Stanley said. “Who knows better about what’s good for NIC than the people that live and work here?”

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