Guttenberg posted:
First off, Utah is one of ten states that allow campus carry, not “one of only two.” (On April 26, 2024, Campus Safety Magazine reported 11 campus carry states, but Colorado Democrats banned campus carry in their state, ending the ability to be armed on campus for self-defense on July 1, 2024.)
Parkland fathers Ryan Petty and Andrew Pollack used X posts to counter Guttenberg’s claims.
Petty wrote, “I don’t know who else needs to hear this, but campus carry wasn’t the issue.”
Pollack wrote, “What does campus carry of concealed handguns have to do with someone using a rifle? How would campus carry stop a rifle fired from the top of a building 200 yards away? BTW, it appears the gun was a bolt action rifle.”
Moreover, as Pollack mentioned, campus carry is for handguns. FOX13 noted that law enforcement indicated the shot was “fired from the top of the Losee Center on the [Utah Valley University] campus, which is approximately 200 yards from where Kirk was speaking.”
Two-hundred yard shots are typically rifle shots.
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Additionally, Guttenberg misses the point that campus carry is for self-defense.
People who intend to do harm to others will bring guns to campuses even if those campuses are gun-free.
Although it was not a college campus, it is worth noting that the trans shooter who targeted the Minneapolis Catholic school on August 27, chose that location in part because he wanted to follow in the footsteps of heinous criminals like the Sandy Hook attacker and shoot unarmed people.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, a member of Gun Owners of America, and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History. Follow him on X: @awrhawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
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