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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Lynn, I wonder if the Boise Weekly article muddled things up a bit or Marty Peterson was less than clear in his comments?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This comes from Betsy Russell with the Spokesman Review, who generally gets the details accurately – maybe she asked Mr. Peterson for clarification?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/2011/mar/10/ui-guns-campus-bill-would-end-local-control/">http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/2011/mar/10/ui-guns-campus-bill-would-end-local-control/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#111111'>UI: Guns-on-campus bill would end local control<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#111111'>Posted by <b>Betsy</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;background:white;margin-left:.5in;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;border:none;padding:0in'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#111111'>March 10, 2011 7:33 a.m. - Updated: 7:35 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#111111'>Marty Peterson, assistant to the president of the University of Idaho, told the House State Affairs Committee, “Under current policies, the state allows local control at the institutional level to determine campus firearms policies. This allows each institution to adopt policies that best suit the needs of the individual institution. Under HB 222, these policies would be centralized and controlled by state law rather than being responsive to local needs.” He also pointed out a problem in the bill as it applies to the UI: It would permit state colleges and universities to ban guns only in undergrad dorms, but, he said, “At the UI we don't have housing that is specified as undergraduate or graduate student housing. Both undergraduate and graduate students are housed in the same units. Presumably this would mean that graduate students living in the dormitory could have firearms, but undergraduates could not.”<br><br>Peterson said the community had an incident in which an armed student tried to assist when there was a shooting. When a sniper attacked people in downtown Moscow, “A UI student living nearby grabbed his 45-caliber semi-automatic pistol and approached the shooting scene to try to assist. The sniper spotted the student and fired.” The student was struck three times in multiple rounds fired from the sniper's AK-47, and was never able to fire his gun. “Fortunately, he lived,” Peterson said. <b>He said the university is currently in litigation over the question of guns being allowed in student housing.</b> “We believe that the courts rather than the Legislature are the appropriate place for this to be decided, ” he said. He noted that the university, the faculty senate, and the associated students at UI all oppose HB 222.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#111111'>[Emphasis is mine. SL]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This does make more sense to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>HTH,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Saundra Lund<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>~ Edmund Burke<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2011 through life plus 70 years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of the author.*****<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] On Behalf Of Lynn McCollough<br>Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:17 PM<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Subject: [Vision2020] House Bill 222 - Weapons on campus</p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The following is a quote from today's Boise Weekly:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>"Marty Peterson, assistant to the president of the University of Idaho, talked about a 2007 incident when a sniper terrorized the community of Moscow.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>"We had a U of I student grab his .45 caliber pistol and head toward the sniper," said Peterson. "The sniper proceeded to fire 31 rounds at the student, hitting him with three bullets. Fortunately he lived, but that student is now suing the university."<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Is the person who grabbed their .45 really suing the U of I? I had not heard of this action resulting from that tragic incident. I do not understand how anyone could possibly include the University as having something to defend re. this tragedy of domestic violence escalating horrifically. Does anyone know more about this?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Lynn<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>