Marquette U.’s Ban on Guns Will Continue Despite New Law

October 12, 2011, 12:13 pm

Wisconsin’s new law allowing holders of gun permits to carry concealed weapons takes effect on November 1, part of a pattern of broadening gun rights on college campuses, but Marquette University has announced that its policy on guns will not change. According to the Associated Press, the Roman Catholic university will continue to ban weapons in dormitories, offices, and academic buildings, as the new law allows. Gun owners will be permitted to tote their weapons outdoors at Marquette, in buildings leased from the university, and in off-campus apartments.

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akprof

Good for Marquette
Guest

I know to avoid Marquette’s library if I’m studying late at night. I’d be defenseless.
Guest

Good for Marquette and its new President! Let’s hope Mayor Barrett and the local police establishment also support common sense on private property!
Guest

The NRA and its fanatics are hoping people like you will believe their propaganda.There are plenty of security measures available to Marquette students who are studing in the library – maybe not as many for students wandering around drunk at 2 a.m. Use the available security measures. Don’t rely on toting a gun.
moonwalker

I don’t understand why people are so quick to let college age students carry weapons on campus. Guns + poor decision making skills + poor conflict resolution skills = an unsafe environment. I was a Communication major but even I can do that math.
dank48

As a gun owner, I applaud Marquette’s good sense. I have no idea how many ” students wandering around drunk at 2 a.m.” there may be on campus, but the last thing any school needs is untrained amateurs armed with guns. It’s bad enough they have cars.
willardmdix

Are there roving bands of marauding gunslingers out there you need to defend yourself from? Does anyone really think that a room full of gun-totin’ students is somehow a safer place? If I were a professor I’d be very worried about standing in front of a class knowing some of my students might be loaded for bear (figuratively speaking, of course).
This is knee-jerk stupidity based on several horrific and well-publicized, but statistically rare events. It also seems the gun nuts just want laws like this passed so they can crow about ‘em. This ain’t the old west, pardner. Grow up.
At the same time I wonder whether everyone will suddenly start carrying their firearms to class or what…I’m sorry Obama ever repudiated his comment about people clinging to their guns or religion because he was right.
jamesebryan

This is actually something of a non-story. Marquette isn’t acting ‘despite’ the law but entirely within it, and in ways that practically every other college and university in Wisconsin will probably do. They can’t keep guns off campus but they can keep them out of specific buildings, so guns are going to be banned from every single college building standing, and thus only by default allowed on the campus grounds.

What this law will amount to is all Wisconsin colleges and universities spending a lot of money on signage, because they will have to post the ban at every entrance to every building where they want it in effect – and that’s a lot of doors.
mbelvadi

“ If I were a professor I’d be very worried about standing in front of a class…” – Hey, do you suppose the guns-on-campus movement is actually a furtive attempt to support the online-course movement? A way to get recalcitrant faculty to change their opinions about being in the same room with their students?
Just sayin’