February 16, 2008
Dover-New Philadelphia Times-Reporter

It’s time we allow concealed carry on America’s university campuses.

Maybe an armed, well-trained professor might have been able to stop the graduate student who went on a shooting rampage Thursday in a Northern Illinois University lecture hall, killing six and wounded 15 before turning the gun on himself.

And maybe someone with a weapon could have stopped the massacre at Virginia Tech last year that left 32 students and teachers dead.

We’ll never know.

As a society, we must have a serious screw loose when these horrific shooting rampages keep happening again and again. Something must be done to make our campuses safe once more.

Granting law-abiding handgun license holders the right to take their weapons onto college and university campuses is one thing we should do.

Alright, you know the facts. Now answer the question: What are the tort liabilities?

By John Longenecker

It's time to forget about writing more gun bans, time to quit profiling (it's a stalling tactic for political reasons) and time to litigate. The first order of business for any damaged plaintiff is to sue everybody. This would be all colleges who ban weapons, including those who have seen their students murdered and those who have yet to see students killed thanks to the gun bans which are now ringing the dinner bell for campus shooters in increasing numbers.