Guns on Utah college campuses

Guns on Utah college campuses
Date: Aug 27, 2007 9:46 PM

Stats show few guns found on Utah college campuses
By Sheena McFarland
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 08/27/2007 06:32:21 AM MDT


SALT LAKE CITY--As the debate over guns on Utah college campuses
raged during the 2007 Legislature, lobbyists on both sides quoted
statistics and provided scenarios to prove that allowing guns would
have either worsened or improved a hypothetical campus crime.

But crime data obtained under the Clery Act, which requires all
campuses to report crime statistics to the federal government, shows
few incidents between 2001 and 2005 when weapons were found or used
on campuses, and in those few incidents, rarely were students
involved.

No incident reported during the five-year period involved a student
brandishing a gun in a threatening manner, and of the 23 incidents on
Utah college campuses involving guns, seven involved loaded handguns
while the rest involved BB guns or paint-ball guns. The other
incidents involved weapons that ranged from butterfly knives to brass
knuckles to nunchakus.

No incidents involved a legally concealed weapon.

Such data only reinforce why gun advocates have successfully defeated
efforts to ban concealed weapons on campuses, said Clark Aposhian,
chairman of the Utah Self-Defense Instructor's Network.

"Concealed weapon carriers are not people to be afraid of," Aposhian
said. "They are simply folks who are concerned with one thing and one
thing only: lawful self-defense."

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