My point here is that any gun “ban” or permission to carry on my campus will be entirely rhetorical, since we don’t walk through metal detectors or get frisked when we enter the campus grounds or buildings.

I do know that outside of the specifically restricted areas it is legal to carry openly. That knowledge isn’t very widespread and the police can get themselves into trouble from time to time. I believe there used to be a statute against open carry (possibly enacted around the time of the Brady Bill?) but that it expired and wasn’t renewed.

In October I got them to correct this story. The error was pretty clear – they read the same press release that every other organization got, and they made an unwarranted assumption about which President was being targeted in this plot. That story, BTW, is still quite the mystery to me. Why send a threat? Why not prepare to carry it out? Why plead guilty? Why didn’t the DoJ report the motive, since they seem to know it? I tried to get the Boulder Weekly interested in following up, and need to check back to see if they’ve done anything with it.

I found another more disturbing problem that calls into question the editorial integrity of the Denver Post and blogged about it on their site here.

Also re: bans, consider the state of the “open carry” laws. There may actually be some meaning that isn’t discussed in the story. My understanding is that you can legally and openly carry a sidearm almost anywhere without a concealed carry permit unless it is explicitly posted otherwise.

I think some businesses do not want to post such a prohibition because they feel it will deter police officers from patronizing them. I would need to read more, but there may be some benefit to the law that doesn’t related to concealed carry.

Just kidding about the cigarette. But I might be persuaded to engage in political theater of just that sort, depending on what happens with this “gun ban.” (Maybe we could issue Baa Ram U. permits only for mercy killing errant the errant Elk that are always crashing into our dorms.)

I got briefly detained late last night–on a public street, no less–by a friendly campus officer for “carrying” too much unscraped ice on my windshield. Got off with a mild admonishment (and 2-4 minutes of loosely supervised glass scraping).

OTOH, afaik, the only time one was fired on campus by police was in a mercy killing when a deer broke through a pane glass window and fell fatally wounded into a hallway.

It would be so much better if students could assist in such duties, because events like that — quite obviously — happen all the time.