According to an article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a university regent for UNLV is proposing university employees be deputized and authorized to carry weapons. Everyone from the president to the maintenance personnel would be allowed to carry concealed weapons in plain clothes. They wouldn't respond to any incident on campus, but only those they witness. I don't know about you, but I remember some of the janitorial and maintenance workers at Auburn and let's just say I wouldn't put a gun anywhere near these people. Half of them looked like they were keeping more than a couple of dead bodies under their house.
And how many of these people have undergone psychological evaluation? I think if employees were given the authority to carry weapons there'd be plenty who of the unstable ones who would certainly be knocked off the list. I don't want some recluse literature professor holstering a 44-magnum during his dissertation on Shakespeare. Or what about the weird cleaning guy who's been talked down to and made fun of by the idiot frat boys? Do you really want these people providing protection?
I'm not saying there wouldn't be those who would know what to do, but I'm weirded out by the thought of some incompetent jackass who gets a weapons certification once a year firing into a crowded classroom trying to pick off one perpetrator. Now there's a wonderful PR nightmare for a university when they have to answer why Mr. and Mrs. Smith's innocent daughter was killed by Professor Plum.
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