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Quoted: If you are a student in MA, know that you can NOT legally possess any guns, ammo, chemical sprays on any college property at any time. It is illegal, even with LTC/FID!
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I could never comprehend why we have a law like this. God forbid we have a responsible person to keep a school from turning into a death trap. Of course, a responsible person would ignore this law, so there really isn't anything for me to complain about.
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This was the MA kneejerk reaction to the Texas Tower shooting of students back in 1966. Been on the books a very long time now.
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Liberal, i.e., restrictive laws, re gun rights, in MA are not new.
The first pistol permit law (concealed carry) in the nation was enacted in MA in 1903, IIRC, predating the Sullivan Law in NY, which came about in 1911. A famous violator of the MA carry law was Theodore Roosevelt. A friend noted in horror that TR was carrying a gun, in defiance of the new law, when TR came to Boston to give speeches in 1904.
The law, of course, like all gun laws, was supposedly designed to cut down on "urban and immigrant gang violence" but found little effect there, but worked wonders in disarming the law-obeying in the suburbs and countryside.
So, it didn't just start with the liberals here, since MA traditionally until the 1950s was a Republican state. It's just that even back to Colonial days, Bay Staters have always tolerated and encouraged ever more governmental regulation and control of their lives and property.....