Ten days ago, 105 members of Missouri's House of Representatives passed a Bill to allow licensed gun owners to carry concealed weapons onto public college campuses. It is a cop out. The Bill relieves elected officials of the hard job of making informed decisions to ensure public safety.
To advocate that each of us, whether student, teacher, shopper, or anyone, carry a concealed weapon into a public place for our own protection is to abandon all sense of responsible governance for our safety.
To have this Bill passed at a time which marked the anniversary of the wholesale murder of people in educational campuses and buildings is outrageous and indicates that elected officials are copping out of dealing with one of the most vexing issues of our time. This behavior and the Bill it produced should be unacceptable to all of us here and elsewhere in the country.
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