Arizona governor Jan Brewer vetoed a bill that would have allowed concealed carry on public colleges and universities in Arizona.
The bill, approved by the Arizona state legislature last week, was one of roughly one dozen similar proposals in states from Michigan to Tennessee. The bill would not have allowed guns in classrooms, only “right of way” spaces. That phrasing was part of the reason behind the governor’s veto.
“This bill was very sloppily written and drafted… and we can’t even find out a definition, what is a right of way? It just wasn’t defined to be able to tell the courts or the policeman how they are going to enforce a law like that,” Brewer told Fox KSAZ.
Following the massacre in Tucson, Ariz. in January that killed six people and severely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, campus concealed carry bills cropped up around the country in many states with legislatures newly made conservative by the 2010 elections.
Currently, colleges in Utah and Colorado, as well as some schools in Virginia and Michigan permit concealed carry on campus.
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