The Georgia ‘campus carry’ bill would allow students 21 and over to carry concealed weapons on campus with a permit, except in certain specified locations. Credit: Igor Golovniov/Zuma Press/Corbis

The Georgia ‘campus carry’ bill would allow students 21 and over to carry concealed weapons on campus with a permit, except in certain specified locations.
Credit: Igor Golovniov/Zuma Press/Corbis

CS Thachenkary had been a business professor for 33 years at Georgia State University and headed up several faculty senate committees. But this year, a bill he predicted would pass hastened his decision to retire.

“I met with my dean back in September and gave him advance notice,” he said. “I told him: ‘This gun bill is going to raise its ugly head – and I don’t want to be among the first casualties.’”

The bill to allow guns on college campuses did pass, and now awaits the signature or veto of Georgia’s governor, Nathan Deal.

HB 859, similar to a bill recently passed in Texas that spurred […]

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