"What if one or two of your shots went wild and shot one or two students?" Putzke asked.
MSU's biggest crime problem is theft of students' property, including computers, cell phones, iPods, books and bikes, Putzke said. A high number of students don't lock up their property, so if they had concealed weapons, his concern is that "we might see a lot of theft of firearms, that might be used in a crime."
MSU announced in June that in light of the Virginia Tech shootings it would update its weapons policy, look into a campus-wide emergency notification system and consider how to keep people secure inside buildings.
MSU officials said the new weapons policy would ban a specific list of weapons, including rifles, shotguns, handguns, knives with blades 4 inches or longer, explosives, swords, nunchucks, throwing stars and other martial arts weapons, crossbows, compound bows, recurve bows, BB guns, paintball guns, dangerous chemicals, real-looking toy guns and pepper spray except for small, personal-sized pepper spray dispensers, which would not be banned.
Cathy Conover, university spokeswoman, said no
decision has been made on whether to alter the proposed policy in light of the
public comments.
- Associated Press
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