“We have no information to suggest that this was a student who was planning an attack or harming people inside the school. It is our understanding—through a very preliminary investigation and what has been expressed to us by the student—that he was having issues with people in the community, and he was carrying the firearm,” Mitch McCoy, SLMPD spokesperson, said. “While Missouri has very relaxed gun laws, it is still very clearly stated in the law that you cannot carry a gun on campus.” [More]
Based on results, you can. Whether you can get away with it or not depends on how crazy, or in this case, stupid you are.
[Via bondmen]
“While Missouri has very relaxed gun laws, it is still very clearly stated in the law that you cannot carry a gun on campus.”
So you disarmed a potential victim under threat.
Great optics. Keep digging.
Crazy?
Stupid?
Perhaps, but I’ll wager he’s not the only “law abiding American” who chose to ignore laws against unlicensed concealed carry then took a firearm into a “gun free zone.”
Fledgling military officers are told not to issue orders they know will not be obeyed. Similar logic would seem to apply to passing laws that are guaranteed to be broken and nearly impossible to enforce.
55 mph speed limits, anyone?