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Before the law allowed senior criminal justice major Sean Langan to drive,
smoke or drink, he knew how to safely fire a gun.
Langan grew up around guns; his father is a retired Secret Service officer
who participated in competitive shooting during his career with the federal
agency.
When he reached middle school age, Langan’s father began to take him
hunting, Langan shot in the Scholastic Clay Target Program in high school,
and he plans on going into law enforcement after graduation.
But there is one place Langan knows he cannot have and does not want to have
a gun: Towson University.
In light of events such as 2007’s Virginia Tech shootings and an attempted
assassination of a United States representative on Jan. 8, lawmakers are
pushing for legislation that would give students, faculty and staff the
right to carry concealed handguns while on campus. Legislation to allow
concealed carry on college campuses is pending in 12 states, including Texas
, Virginia and Florida, according to Students for Concealed Carry on Campus.
This concept isn’t foreign to universities. Utah has allowed concealed
carry on all public college campuses since 2006, and Colorado State
University currently allows concealed carry and the school’s student
government senate passed a resolution in support of student’s self-
protection and second amendment rights. But a case against CSU’s policy
will soon be heard by the state’s Supreme Court.
“If you’re in that situation that you’ve actually been able to get a
Maryland permit, that threat doesn’t disappear once you cross the college
boundary line,” Mueller said. “If you can explain the difference between a
sidewalk in downtown Baltimore and on a college campus, you’re smarter
than me because I can’t figure that out. A college wont assign a police
office to go with you everywhere, they’ll say, ‘If you see a threat, call
for help.’ Ten minutes later when police arrive, or five or two or 30
seconds, if the threat is there now, it might be too late 30 seconds from
now. The only person you can depend on to protect you is you, and if you don
’t have the means to protect yourself that horrible.” |
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