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State Senate disregards concerns with 'guns in trunks' bill


Faster than a speeding bullet, the state Senate approved legislation last Monday that will make businesses and college campuses a lot less safe.

Sponsors of the notorious “guns in trunks” bill say that the opposite is true. The rest of us, who have memories, recall Virginia Tech, where 32 people were killed and 17 wounded by a gunman on April 16, 2007. Numerous workplace shootings occurred nationwide over the past 30 years, too, because people who are busy at their jobs can easily be caught unaware by an aggrieved co-worker.

It is precisely why employers prohibit firearms in the workplace.

For college campuses, the dangers are even more complicated. Students live in close quarters on campuses — when they are not in the classroom — a setting in which they are unlikely to see a shooter approaching.

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