Panel votes to bar guns at colleges despite pleas from rape victims

Mar 5, 2013

Leslie Jorgensen / The Colorado Observer

Despite hearing life-and-death stories of rape victims who begged legislators not to take away their right to carry concealed weapons on college campuses, a Democrat-controlled Senate panel did just that late Monday night.

Those who carry concealed weapons “increase the severity of a crime, increase the likelihood of death,” declared state Sen. Evie Hudak, D-Westminster.

“For women especially, it’s more likely to be used against them and taken away from them,” asserted Hudak. “They are more easily overpowered… and I don’t want people to have a false sense of safety and security.” …read full story by The Colorado Observer

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