This from the AP:

The Senate on Wednesday rejected letting people carry hidden guns in 48 states if they have a concealed weapon permit in any one of them, a rare victory for gun control advocates in a Democratic-controlled Congress that has been friendly to the gun lobby.

Opponents said it would force states with tough concealed weapon permit restrictions to let in gun carriers from states that give permits to convicted criminals, minors and people with no firearms training.

"It’s extremely dangerous policy," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., noting that her state demands fingerprinting, federal background checks, a course of training, and verification by a local sheriff before issuing a permit to carry a concealed gun.

As as the proud holder of a concealed carry permit here in Texas, I don’t think it’s “dangerous” for me to carry my concealed gun into other states that also allow concealed carry.

This bill would have made a conceal carry permit in one state valid in other states with conceal carry laws.

I think it’s funny if the left considers the defeat of this bill some kind of great victory for them — it only failed by two votes.

Mike Guzman and thousands of other students say the best way to prevent campus bloodshed is more guns.

Guzman, an economics major at Texas State University-San Marcos, is among 8,000 students nationwide who have joined the nonpartisan Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, arguing that students and faculty already licensed to carry concealed weapons should be allowed to pack heat along with their textbooks.

“It’s the basic right of self defense,” said Guzman, a 23-year-old former Marine. “Here on campus, we don’t have that right, that right of self defense.”

I completely agree with the student group. Any student who has a concealed weapons permit should be able to carry his gun on campus as well. The VA-Tech massacre would not have happened if a few of the students had guns. He would have been able to kill one or two students, but not 33.

When a student like the one at VA-Tech decides to start shooting people, the rest of the students are completely defenseless. It would save lives if students were able to fight back, and it may even act as a deterrent to future gunmen.

Crazed students don’t think twice about planning a massacre at a school, because they know that no one will be able to defend themselves. They might reconsider if they knew that others will be armed as well.

These days, I would carry a concealed gun on campus regardless of what the law says. The only thing gun control laws do is prevent good people from protecting themselves. Criminals are always gonna have guns, so it’s best that both sides are armed.

-Chris Jones