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Investigation
Concealed Carry
Bills to end training and licensing requirements for concealed carry and to allow guns on college campuses loom as pivotal fights for 2017.
Commentary
It frustrates me that so many of my peers and professors have reacted so negatively.
I have serious concerns about campus carry.
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.
Gun Policy
Nathan Deal of Georgia and Bill Haslam of Tennessee have bills on their desks. How they decide on guns on campus will shape the movement’s momentum.
A combination of vulnerable young people and the lethality of firearms has experts worried.
The self-proclaimed “lifetime defender” of the Second Amendment urges lawmakers to amend a controversial bill.
Critics and supporters alike are bound to be unhappy with how schools interpret the new law, predicts William McRaven.
Research indicates that campus carry won't make colleges safer.
