CSU student board votes to support campus carry

From the Rocky Mountain State [thanks to reader Jim P. for the link]:

FORT COLLINS - Only a few universities in the country allow students to carry guns on campus, and one of them in Colorado is considering a change.

At Colorado State University in Fort Collins, public safety experts and the president's cabinet support a gun ban.

Before the decision is made, however, the school wants to hear what students think.

Wednesday night, the student governing body voted 21-3 in support of keeping CSU a conceal-and-carry campus. Five student senators were absent or did not vote.

The student leaders will now submit their resolution to the CSU president for consideration.

Author of the bill, CSU Junior Cooper Anderson said, "We wrote this bill because we felt that a student should have the right to self defense on campus. We don't believe that crime stops at a campus' borders."

CSU spokesperson Brad Bohlander says the Public Safety Team and the president's cabinet are united against the issue.

"More availability and more access to weapons on a highly populated college campus can potentially lead to more negative incidents," Bohlander told 9NEWS.

Besides Utah, where universities aren't allowed to ban guns, CSU is one of only a handful of universities across the country allowing concealed weapons.

CSU has never had a violent gun incident on campus.

"I think whenever you create a gun-free zone, you have an opportunity for criminals to act with impunity," Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said. [emphasis added] ...

Article here. The CSU president and his cabinet are united against the fundamental human right of their students to defend themselves from unlawful criminal violence. There, fixed it for them. Note that the CSU student board vote was 21 to 3 in favor of campus carry. Seems like the students have more common sense than their school administrators. I also like the Larimer County sheriff's common sense (but politically incorrect) quote.