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From Art Jester and Ryan Alessi at the Lexington Herald-Leader:
State Rep. Bob Damron, D-Nicholasville, signed up 44 co-sponsors Tuesday for his bill that would allow people who park on public university property to keep a legally registered gun in their vehicle.
Currently, this can be prohibited by weapons policies set by the state universities.
Just what I want, a parking lot full of concealed weapons. We don’t live in the wild west, no matter how much some people would like to think so.
And then there’s this:
Guns at universities became a national issue after the mass shooting last spring at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., where a student gunman killed 32 people and then himself.
Update, January 22: Here’s a follow-up article in the Courier-Journal. Hooray for Kathy Stein, who isn’t letting the bill out of committee. Note this:
[The bill] would let people bring guns to campus in their vehicles and also would apply to other university property, such as sports arenas or hospitals. In addition, gun owners could remove firearms from their vehicles to defend themselves, their property or someone else.
While I don’t mean to be classist, if you’ve seen some of the folk who are hospitalized at University Hospital, the last thing in the world you’d want would be a bunch of guns around.
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Postmark deadline for Heartland Review’s 2008 Joy Bale Boone Prize is February 1 15 , so get those poems in the mail!
Judge for 2008 is Kathleen Driskell, Associate Professor and Associate Program Director of the brief-residency MFA program at Spalding University. Her full-length collection of poetry, Laughing Sickness, was published by Fleur-de-Lis Press in 1999 and is in its second printing.
Fee: $5.00 for one poem, $3.00 for each additional poem. Make checks payable to The Heartland Review.
Poems should not be longer than 30 lines.
Send a cover sheet with name, address, and a short bio. DO NOT put identifying material on the poems.
Send SASE for results.
Mail entries to:
2008 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize
c/o Mick Kennedy
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College
600 College Street Road
Elizabethtown, KY 42701
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