Weapons in the American campuses. The bill comes from Jeff Wentworth, Republican Senator of the State of Texas. Currently, the law prohibits possession of firearms in "places dedicated to higher education" but already seven other states have joined the debate under way in Texas. The idea, a bit 'unusual, it is proposed to avoid the massacres that have bloodied in recent years at schools in the United States.
On all of the 16 April 2007. Then the University of Virginia was marked by one of the worst massacres committed by an individual: Seung-Hui Cho, a mentally disturbed student, killed 32 people on campus and wounded many others. A tragedy of such magnitude as to "fade" even the memory of what occurred in 1999 in the district of Columbine in Colorado, where the victims of the shooting at the local high school, were 13.
"I do not want in Texas repetition of what happened at Virginia Tech," says Wentworth. Then continues: "At the moment the so-called" weapons-free zones "should be renamed" Areas of the Victims. " According to the senator, therefore, the principle would have to be able to prevent massacres, allowing students to defend themselves, without waiting for the arrival of the police.
"When salvation is linked to the latter - says Wentworth - you can not afford to wait for the minutes it takes for the police to arrive." Similar bills, it said, had previously been rejected by other states, like Louisiana in 2009 had voted against the proposal to legalize the carrying of weapons on the campus.
However, after the massacre of Arizona in Tucson, which has been seriously injured the Democrat Gabrielle Giffords and has already seen an increase in sales of guns, particularly the Glock, particularly light and handy, initiatives to support a greater liberalization in the sale of firearms have increased.
Last month, for example, in Nebranska was proposed a law to allow teachers to carry firearms, while the right-wing groups, linked to the gun lobby, had just made their voices heard in Arizona and Arkansas liberalization to considerably within schools and university campuses. Firmly against the proposal to Wentworth, and Bill Powers, president of the Faculty Council, which stressed that "on Friday comes once a week on our campus and the idea of bringing together young people, parties, alcohol and firearms I particularly dangerous for the safety of all.
" The faculty of Austin, with about 50 000 students has always been a kind of "island liberal" in an extremely conservative. John Wood, 26, has just arrived here from Virginia Polytechnic Institute where they were killed and two of his friends, from the outset, has become one of the fiercest opponents of the bill.
This is echoed by one of the leaders of the student union, which responds with irony to the reasons advanced by Wentworth. "So the suggestion would be to stop people from bringing guns on campus, giving students the opportunity to bring in their turn, just to facilitate a better shooting." Fortunately, as reported by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, 22 states have already rejected similar bills, keeping the area "gun free".
Meanwhile, in South Dakota, was presented a bill to force the majority to purchase a gun. According to the deputy of the state, Hal Wick, the bill would only have the task of ridiculing Obama's health care reform, placing the obligation on an equal footing by the government to obtain health insurance, with the purchase of a gun once or older.
To do so, meanwhile, Wick does not hesitate either to squander public money to promote a law he considers "absurd", nor to pass the dangerous message that promoted a law to help protect the welfare of citizens, beyond ' their social status, has the same meaning as that instead promotes an obligation to buy weapons that are designed basically to kill. 
On all of the 16 April 2007. Then the University of Virginia was marked by one of the worst massacres committed by an individual: Seung-Hui Cho, a mentally disturbed student, killed 32 people on campus and wounded many others. A tragedy of such magnitude as to "fade" even the memory of what occurred in 1999 in the district of Columbine in Colorado, where the victims of the shooting at the local high school, were 13.
"I do not want in Texas repetition of what happened at Virginia Tech," says Wentworth. Then continues: "At the moment the so-called" weapons-free zones "should be renamed" Areas of the Victims. " According to the senator, therefore, the principle would have to be able to prevent massacres, allowing students to defend themselves, without waiting for the arrival of the police.
"When salvation is linked to the latter - says Wentworth - you can not afford to wait for the minutes it takes for the police to arrive." Similar bills, it said, had previously been rejected by other states, like Louisiana in 2009 had voted against the proposal to legalize the carrying of weapons on the campus.
However, after the massacre of Arizona in Tucson, which has been seriously injured the Democrat Gabrielle Giffords and has already seen an increase in sales of guns, particularly the Glock, particularly light and handy, initiatives to support a greater liberalization in the sale of firearms have increased.
Last month, for example, in Nebranska was proposed a law to allow teachers to carry firearms, while the right-wing groups, linked to the gun lobby, had just made their voices heard in Arizona and Arkansas liberalization to considerably within schools and university campuses. Firmly against the proposal to Wentworth, and Bill Powers, president of the Faculty Council, which stressed that "on Friday comes once a week on our campus and the idea of bringing together young people, parties, alcohol and firearms I particularly dangerous for the safety of all.
" The faculty of Austin, with about 50 000 students has always been a kind of "island liberal" in an extremely conservative. John Wood, 26, has just arrived here from Virginia Polytechnic Institute where they were killed and two of his friends, from the outset, has become one of the fiercest opponents of the bill.
This is echoed by one of the leaders of the student union, which responds with irony to the reasons advanced by Wentworth. "So the suggestion would be to stop people from bringing guns on campus, giving students the opportunity to bring in their turn, just to facilitate a better shooting." Fortunately, as reported by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, 22 states have already rejected similar bills, keeping the area "gun free".
Meanwhile, in South Dakota, was presented a bill to force the majority to purchase a gun. According to the deputy of the state, Hal Wick, the bill would only have the task of ridiculing Obama's health care reform, placing the obligation on an equal footing by the government to obtain health insurance, with the purchase of a gun once or older.
To do so, meanwhile, Wick does not hesitate either to squander public money to promote a law he considers "absurd", nor to pass the dangerous message that promoted a law to help protect the welfare of citizens, beyond ' their social status, has the same meaning as that instead promotes an obligation to buy weapons that are designed basically to kill.
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