University of Colorado Says Guns Okay on Campus, Not in Dorms. Jupiterimages/Comstock/Thinkstock The University of Colorado in Boulder has revised its rules for carrying firearms on campus, after the state Supreme Court ruled in March that the school cannot maintain a blanket ban on guns for students who have concealed carry permits.
Under the new rules, guns will still not be allowed in the dormitories, with certain exceptions for family housing units. Thanks to the Concealed Carry Act the state passed in 2003, residents with permits are free to carry their weapons on most public property, and the court ruling affirmed that the state university is no exception. Now that the school has issued its new rules, gun rights advocates are considering whether the dormitory ban is still in violation of the law.
“The Supreme Court said in March that CU has no authority to regulate concealed carry,” says James Manley, staff attorney for the Mountain States Legal Foundation, which helped a student group sue the school for more expansive gun rights. James Manley. Six facts about guns, violence, and gun control. By Ezra Klein July 23, 2012 The aftermath of the Aurora, Colorado shootings has been thick with calls to avoid "politicizing" the tragedy.
That is code, essentially, for "don't talk about reforming our gun control laws. " Let's be clear: This is a form of politicization. When political actors construct a political argument that threatens political consequences if other political actors pursue a certain political outcome, that is, almost by definition, a politicization of the issue. It's just a form of politicization favoring those who prefer the status quo to stricter gun control laws. That said, it's important to be clear about what Aurora is: A tragedy that may or may not tell us anything useful about the general trends in guns and violence in the United States. 1. Kieran Healy, a sociologist at Duke University, made this graph of "deaths due to assault" in the United States and other developed countries. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Gun Control - Just Facts. "Gun Control Facts.
" By James D. Agresti and Reid K. Smith. Just Facts, September 13, 2010. Revised 2/11/13. This research is based upon the most recent available data in 2010. Many aspects of the gun control issue are best measured and sometimes can only be measured through surveys,[1] but the accuracy of such surveys depends upon respondents providing truthful answers to questions that are sometimes controversial and potentially incriminating.[2] Thus, Just Facts uses such data critically, citing the best-designed surveys we find, detailing their inner workings in our footnotes, and using the most cautious plausible interpretations of the results.
Particularly, when statistics are involved, the determination of what constitutes a credible fact (and what does not) can contain elements of personal subjectivity. . * Firearms are generally classified into three broad types: (1) handguns, (2) rifles, and (3) shotguns.[3] Rifles and shotguns are both considered "long guns. " * A U.S.