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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Idaho's college leaders are obviously much brighter
than some of our legislators. And our law enforcement folks are more intelligent
than either....go figure. 19-20 year old boys(mostly) with guns, classroom and
peer stress, hormones raging: what could possibly go wrong? And let's not talk
about the disappointed academics who are angry about the inequity/lack of
respect/non-tenure/etc. ad naseum......GUNS ON CAMPUS? Are they flaming
insane? Oh, wait, never mind. We live in Idaho. Sorry to disturb you with
my rant. I will be cleaning and loading my 357 now, so don't disturb
me......</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Debi R-S</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=thansen@moscow.com href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 03, 2014 6:11
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Idaho college
leaders oppose guns-on-campus bill</DIV>
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<DIV style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Courtesy of the Spokesman-Review
at:</DIV>
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<DIV style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
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href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/feb/03/idaho-college-leaders-oppose-guns-campus-bill-lawm/">http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/feb/03/idaho-college-leaders-oppose-guns-campus-bill-lawm/</A></SPAN></DIV>
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college leaders oppose guns-on-campus bill, but lawmakers press
on anyway</H1>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 21px; OVERFLOW: visible !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">BOISE – Idaho’s state Board of
Education and all eight of its public college and university presidents came
out unanimously and emphatically against a new guns-on-campus bill Monday, but
lawmakers are pressing forward anyway, and the bill now appears likely to
pass.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 21px; OVERFLOW: visible !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">“I wouldn’t bring it up if I didn’t
think it had the votes to get through the committee and the rest of the
process,” said Sen. Curt McKenzie, R-Nampa, lead sponsor of the bill and the
chairman of the Senate State Affairs Committee, where SB 1254 was
introduced.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 21px; OVERFLOW: visible !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">McKenzie said he’ll hold a full hearing
on the bill on Feb. 12, and after two hours of testimony, the committee will
vote on whether to forward it to the full Senate. In 2011, similar legislation
passed the House on a 41-28 vote before dying in the same Senate committee. It
went even further, eliminating any authority for state colleges or
universities to regulate guns on campus in any manner, except for in
dorms.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 21px; OVERFLOW: visible !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="">This year’s bill would allow retired law enforcement officers and
people with Idaho’s enhanced concealed-carry permit to bring firearms to
campus. It would forbid guns from dormitories and large arenas or meeting
rooms seating more than 1,000.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 21px; OVERFLOW: visible !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="">Idaho college presidents not only spoke out against the bill, several
vowed to testify against it when it comes up for a hearing.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 21px; OVERFLOW: visible !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="">Joe Dunlap, president of North Idaho College, said, “The colleges of
Idaho currently have longstanding, locally developed policies that do not
allow guns on campus.” He called the bill “a litmus test for local control,”
saying the authority of colleges to regulate guns on their campuses shouldn’t
be pre-empted by state law; that’s specific feature of SB 1254.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 21px; OVERFLOW: visible !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="">University of Idaho President Don Burnett said research “does not
demonstrate that safety would be enhanced by increasing the number of weapons
on college campuses.” He said, “Moreover, many law enforcement experts are
concerned that a proliferation of firearms will make response by law
enforcement authorities in crisis situations more complicated and ultimately
more dangerous.”</SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 21px; OVERFLOW: visible !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="">Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens, who supports the bill, said he
can’t understand the college presidents’ opposition. “It seems that it only
makes the campuses safer,” Barbieri said. “The idea that a predator knows that
there’s no way a person can lawfully carry on campus, gives them an open
field.”</SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 21px; OVERFLOW: visible !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="">McKenzie said, “I understand their desire to control what happens on
campus, but that decision weighs less in my mind than the constitutional right
of Idaho citizens to protect themselves when they are on publicly owned land.
… I believe this is a good bill that protects the liberty interests of Idaho
citizens.”</SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 21px; OVERFLOW: visible !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="">He noted that other states have authorized guns on campus, including
neighboring Utah and Oregon.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 21px; OVERFLOW: visible !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="">College of Southern Idaho President Jeff Fox said his board and
faculty senate polled students on the issue in 2011. “It was virtually
unanimous … against guns on campus,” he said.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 21px; OVERFLOW: visible !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="">Burnett said, “I think you’ll find in most student bodies that
there’s divided opinions. At the University of Idaho, the student leadership
has informed us they prefer to keep the decision-making where it is with
respect to guns on campus.”</SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 21px; OVERFLOW: visible !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="">McKenzie said he’s worked with several other lawmakers on the bill,
and with the Idaho liaison for the National Rifle Association. “I think this
is a fundamental interest of Idaho citizens,” he said.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 21px; OVERFLOW: visible !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="">Idaho currently allows university leaders to set policies on such
matters. Guns aren’t allowed on campus at any of the state’s public colleges
or universities.</SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 21px; OVERFLOW: visible !important"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Don Soltman, left, president of the
Idaho State Board of Education, joins all eight of Idaho’s public college and
university presidents Monday to speak out “emphatically” against SB 1254,
which would allow concealed guns on Idaho public
college campuses.</SPAN></P>
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<DIV><SPAN style="">Tom Hansen</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="">Moscow, Idaho</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="">"There's room at the top they are telling you
still.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="">But first you must learn to smile as you
kill,</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="">If you want to be like the folks on the
hill."</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="">- John Lennon</SPAN></DIV>
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