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"Legislation allowing concealed weapons on public university campuses thankfully was shot down again this week," an editorial in TheNewsStar.com pronounces .
The editors are expressing gratitude for the failure of House Bill 413 by Rep. Ernest Wooton to make it out of the Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice after the panel voted 8 - 3 on Wednesday to kill the bill. In other words, they are grateful the political overclass has told them and everyone else "No, you may not have a choice in matters pertaining to defending your own lives--we will mandate those decisions for you."