Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
"Man with a gun."
With or without an exclamation point, few other phrases spark as much fear, or such large police responses, as demonstrated by the Thursday manhunts at Virginia Tech and in Christiansburg.
The Tech gun scare, which led national news reports for hours Thursday, have again highlighted the struggle between the rights of gun owners and safety at public colleges and universities.
Five police agencies, including state troopers, searched the Tech campus for several hours Thursday after three teenage girls reported seeing a man carrying a gun near a dining hall. No sign of the man was found.
Similarly, Christiansburg police, assisted by Montgomery County sheriff's deputies, searched Thursday for a man reported to be carrying a holstered gun near the health department on Pepper Street. They found a man carrying a cellphone on his hip.
In both cases, even if a man had been carrying a gun, he very well may have been in compliance with state laws and university policies.
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