ANOTHER CIVIL RIGHTS SUCCESS: Haslam allows controversial guns on campus bill to become law. “The bill, Senate Bill 2376, allows full-time faculty, staff and other employees of Tennessee’s public colleges and universities who have handgun-carry permits to carry their guns on campus — but they must notify the local law enforcement agency with primary responsibility for security on their campus — the campus police, for example. The governor said in a letter to the House and Senate speaker that he prefers to let campuses make their own decision.” We don’t let campuses “make their own decision” about other civil rights. Why should we treat this one differently? But he didn’t veto the bill, realizing the political debacle that would have been.

Colorado has had campus carry for 12 years, with No Mass Shootings, No Crimes by Permit Holders.