The Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents has endorsed a plan that would encourage faculty and staff members to go about their business armed with guns that could be used to thwart an attack like the one that took 32 lives at Virginia Tech in April. According to the Web site of KLAS, a local television station in Las Vegas, the regents approved a plan under which the system would pay a $3,000 fee for each faculty or staff member who wanted to take a 21-week training course in how to use firearms. The plan got mixed reviews from the students KLAS interviewed. —Andrew Mytelka
Update: An official with the Nevada system has commented below (at No. 13) that the KLAS report is wrong, that the board did not endorse a plan to arm faculty and staff members, and that the board would consider a proposal on the matter at its August meeting.
