The guns-on-campus debate is back. Two Republican conservatives are reviving controversial legislation that died last year.
![Lawmakers are reviving legislation allowing concealed weapon permit holders to bring their guns on college campuses. The bill died last year.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/90c3f7c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/280x210+0+0/resize/880x660!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmediad.publicbroadcasting.net%2Fp%2Fwfsu%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Fcard_280%2Fpublic%2F201508%2Fguns_on_campus.jpg)
Representative Greg Steube of Sarasota describes himself as a long-time supporter of Second Amendment rights. He says college students have as much a need to defend themselves as anyone else.
“Just because you walk onto a college campus I don’t think that that should be any different than walking in any other place in our community.”
The bill died in a Senate committee after meeting a firestorm of protest from college administrators and campus police. Florida State University President John Thrasher, a former House Speaker, was also opposed.
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