COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
College students who say they’re powerless against campus attacks by gunmen want to push legislators and school administrators to let them arm themselves.
In the wake of recent campus shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University, a nationwide student group called Students for Concealed Carry on Campus says they’ve recruited 25,000 members in the last year.
John Davis, a 30-year-old University of Colorado at Colorado Springs senior, is one of about a dozen students at the campus who joined the group and is organizing a local effort to protest not being able to bring concealed guns to school.
He said students at UCCS and CU-Boulder will join a national demonstration April 22-25 — the week of the anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings — in which students will wear empty gun holsters. Davis said the display is meant to symbolize that students are “basically defenseless” at school.
“I carry because I’m a former Boy Scout and the motto is always be prepared,” Davis said.
UCCS spokesman Tom Hutton said there’s a reason CU system officials don’t allow guns in classrooms.
