CCRKBA Applauds New Hampshire Over Campus Carry Bill

As Bearing Arms reported last week, New Hampshire did a very good thing. They’re one step closer to having campus carry on college campuses in the state. For a state that has “Live Free or Die” on its license plates, it’s nice to see when they’re living up to that motto.

And yeah, that’s what’s happening here, assuming the Senate passes the bill, too.

I’m not the only one thrilled to see this, though, and neither is Cam, who wrote about it last week. The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is also pretty happy to see it.

From a press release:

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is applauding lawmakers in the New Hampshire House for approving legislation allowing carry on college campuses by prohibiting colleges and universities from banning guns.

CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb took issue with opponents of the measure who have cited tragic campus shootings, such as the one at Brown University, as a good reason to prevent students or visitors from carrying defensive sidearms for their personal safety.

“Their logic is all wrong,” said Gottlieb. “Those incidents occurred on campuses where gun-free policies exist, leaving students and faculty unable to defend themselves. In an environment where people have not only a right but the means to fight back, it levels the field against evil doers, whether they are criminals or crazy people. We encourage people to support House Bill 1793 and tell their lawmakers to pass the measure.

“Colleges and universities can no longer masquerade as Ivory Tower institutions that are immune from attacks by evil people who belong either behind bars or in an institution,” he observed. “What once may have been considered a manifestation of cultural elitism has—because of Brown University—been shown to be a deadly case of self-delusion. 

“We see one opponent of House Bill 1793 offer the argument that half of school mass shootings are done by students and the other half by campus visitors,” Gottlieb added. “What difference does it make who launches an attack? What can make a difference is whether one or more intended victims can immediately fight back and stop some madman in his tracks, thus saving innocent lives in the process. 

“We’ve seen the results of an institutional ‘cower-in-fear’ philosophy,” Gottlieb concluded, “and it has been devastating. The time has come for common sense to prevail, and that includes putting an end to policies which essentially create risk-free environments for dangerous individuals to victimize young adults and their teachers solely to perpetuate an indefensible notion that people should leave their right of self-defense at a school’s property line.”

It should be noted that while some people are already foaming at the mouth about campus carry in the Granite State, contrary to what some people might claim, there’s no evidence of campus carry making anyone less safe.

In fact, so far as I’m aware, there hasn’t been a single example of a gun being misused on a college campus by anyone who has been armed due to such a law.

What I do know, though, is that if Virginia had campus carry, the Virginia Tech shooting might have been very different. The same is true of the Michigan State shooting, or literally any college shooting. All it takes is one armed good guy to change the equation for everyone. Even if they only serve as a speedbump, ultimately falling to the killer, they buy precious time for others to escape.

The only supposed downsides are the inane fantasies anti-gunners concoct that simply to justify their opposition to campus carry.

New Hampshire House members took an important step forward in making college campuses there much safer. Now, it’s up to the state Senate to do the same. Then, we must hope that Gov. Kelly Ayotte has the good sense to sign it.

Once that happens, I’ll be shocked to see reports of a mass shooting on a college campus there. I’ll be even more shocked if an armed citizen didn’t ventilate the bad guy before it was all said and done.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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