SCCC - Students for Concealed Carry on Campus
In Ohio and many other states, colleges and universities are places where guns are not allowed by law, even if you are a background checked Concealed Handgun License holder.
I respect and admire law enforcement officers, but I don't want to be one. However, I also don't want to have to wait for them to react and respond to the crazy person who, for example, decides to start shooting people on the 3rd floor of the building farthest away from the public safety building. The organization, Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (www.ConcealedCampus.org), or SCCC, is leading the fight to get states to change their laws to allow institutions of higher learning to permit concealed carry on campus. In states that allow concealed carry at colleges, some colleges enact policies banning the practice. In the state of Oregon, the Court of Appeals struck down such a policy at the Oregon University System, a group of state universities. Should Ohio's law be changed to allow college concealed carry, state colleges would not be able to enact any such policies. in 2007, to provide consistency in the patchwork of firearms laws around the state, Ohio passed a preemption law that disallows any public entity within the state from passing laws or setting policies that interfere with owning, possessing or transporting a firearm. |