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AG-EE wrote:Charles,

Does your bill include making it unlawful for a university to circumvent the law by threatening expulsion if a CHL is caught carrying while on the premises? Even though the legislature might make it OK, we all know the schools would still try to keep them out by that type of threat. I think adding that would be extremely important.

Not at this point. It's too late to introduce new bills and I know of no bills that these provisions could be added to, because of the germane requirement. Any bills not out of House committees by next Wednesday are dead anyway.

My proposal is for other purposes and uses during 2008. I certainly would anticipate adding a provision that deals with state-supported colleges and universities, but private schools would be much more difficult, if not impossible. Perhaps we could add something dealing with private schools that get state money, but that will take some research.

Chas.

Gov. Perry was very courageous in making his statement about removing all restrictions on CHL's and the anti's in Austin are trying to make this an issue. We all should call and/or send emails to the Governor and thank him for his very well-reasoned response to a horrible tragedy made possible by overly-restrictive gun laws and/or school-imposed restrictions on CHL's in Virginia. Letters to the editors of newspapers would also be in order.

Letters, calls and emails to your Senator and Representative asking them to support Governor Perry’s call for removing restriction CHL’s could also prove helpful.

We need to create a groundswell of support for this concept.

Chas.

CWOOD wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:I've already drafted the bill . . . for 2009 of course.

Chas.

Charles, Don't forget that it could be one of the topics for a special session.

It could be, but the idea of gun bills in special sessions scares me. In regular sessions, they are just a few of thousands of bills, so they can't draw the attention that they would in a special session. Perhaps there is something that could be done to help lay the groundwork for 2009.

Chas.

I've already drafted the bill . . . for 2009 of course.

Chas.