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Campus Carry
The law takes effect in two weeks.
A reminder that a policy promoted as necessary for personal security can lead to public safety risks.
Proponents of arming college students bent legislative rules to keep this year's bill alive. Republican Nathan Deal now has seven days to decide whether he'll repeat his 2016 veto, or give gun rights advocates a win.
Plans call for ponying up $1 million — and that's just for the football stadium.
Commentary
A Baltimore principal wants her kids to better understand how certain relationships boost the odds that they will be shot.
Another state just approved concealed carry at public universities. Here’s what you need to know.
The measure, which now heads to the governor’s desk, follows a firestorm of public criticism over the state’s original legislation.
How two gun rights movements collided in the Jayhawk State.
The state's new campus carry law caused an uproar by allowing for armed fans. Under a proposed revision, schools that want to keep "sensitive areas" gun-free would need to submit a security plan to state police.
Bills to end training and licensing requirements for concealed carry and to allow guns on college campuses loom as pivotal fights for 2017.
It frustrates me that so many of my peers and professors have reacted so negatively.
I have serious concerns about campus carry.
Nathan Deal says the right to bring firearms on public university grounds is “not guaranteed by the Second Amendment."
“In the words of John McEnroe, ‘You can’t be serious!’” wrote one respondent.
Philadelphia
In West Philadelphia, a teacher willing to broach a heavy subject is helping his students make sense of the shootings that shape their world.