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AB143
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For	I attend University of Nevada Reno and I want to be able to carry a gun if I have a permit allowing me to do so.	May-03-2013
For	AB 143, or BDR 20-615, would allow law-abiding citizens to exercise their 2nd Amendment right within the confines of NSHE (Nevada System of Higher Education) owned property. But the issue that I have is this; why would they not be allowed to in the first place? If the 2nd Amendment gives citizens the right to bear arms yet does not stipulate where they can bear arms why would NSHE play the role of third party stipulator? It seems to be a question of authority and constitutionality. On one hand, NSHE has the authority to allow and deny certain items on their property, yet questions should be raised on their ability to infringe of certain inalienable rights. Private property owners should be allowed to restrict gun possession within their property. However, NSHE property is not privately owned and it is accessible, for the most part, by the general public. Therefore, NSHE shouldn’t be able to restrict the possession of legally concealed firearms while on their property. NSHE cannot ensure the safety of their students, so the only solution is to increase security or allow law-abiding citizens the ability to secure themselves. I support this Bill and many that are fighting for the peoples 2nd Amendment rights.	May-01-2013
For	Those of us that do have a CCW are responsible. We do have the right to protect ourselves and further our education on firearm safety.	Apr-29-2013
Against	I don't like concealed weapons on campus but then on the other hand if the person isn't evil, knows how to use the weapon, and I don't know about it, I probably can live with it, but as making it formally legal, I can't quite go that far. A lot of people who knew it was legal to carry a concealed firearm, who don't know what their doing would feel free to do so, and I would find that disturbing.	Apr-26-2013
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For	Please put this bill to a vote!!	Apr-23-2013
For	I have read the bill in its entirety and feel it should be brought to the floor for a vote. With the violence which has occurred on many campuses throughout our nation, it appears the ability to carry a concealed weapon would be a deterrent. Being defenseless, particularly for a female, is frightening. If properly trained, which one must be to obtain a CCW permit, would give women the right and ability to protect themselves against sexual predators or others that would harm them. Why would the chairman on his own determine it has no importance to the people of Nevada and deny it even to come to the floor for a vote? Please reconsider this decision and at least let it be heard. Thank you.	Apr-23-2013
For	It would be vital and would save lives if you pass this.	Apr-23-2013
For	Statistically many tapes occur on campuses Nation wide. Granting the right for students especially female students to carry concealed on college campuses would likely curb some of these violent crimes. Furthermore increasing the publican right to carry concealed on any venue further advances the dream of true American Constitutional liberty which, unfortunately has been forgotten by many legislators.	Apr-23-2013
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For	this bill needs to have a vote this is important i have followed the testimony please ensure that the representatives of the people are allowed to represent the people with a vote .thank you	Apr-22-2013
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For	This Bill should be brought up for a vote by the representatives of the people, not killed by 1 person. Every person deserves to defend themselves anywhere in the State of NV.	Apr-22-2013
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For	Those who have a concealed carry weapons permit do so for the sake of self protection. I support the right of law abiding citizens with a concealed carry permit to have that right on campus and the laws of the state should take precedence allowing the holder to carry legally irrespective of where they are too as a deterrent to those who would commit crimes such as those to Amanda Collins and Brianna Denison. As a female, my thoughts on this are clear because I too have had a few 'close calls' while in my teens and twenties-my awareness of my surroundings and quick thinking saved me. As an adult looking back I know the potential perpetrators would have thought twice about approaching me or anyone else on campus and at the local mall and victims such as Amanda Collins and Brianna Dennison would have had a better 'second chance' had they been trained and armed with a conceal carry permit so my support for anyone especially a female with a conceal carry permit is complete.	Apr-20-2013
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For	A valid CCW permit implies a person can carry regularly, effectively and safely. School administrators should not have final say regarding a person's ability to carry on campus. Permit holders should be able to transition to the campus environment without being knowingly disarmed by anyone who would do them harm. Permit holders have a history of passing background investigations and are strong advocates of safety. Law Enforcement, specifically the Sheriffs who issue CCW permits, be the only ones who give a yes or no to carry. We are a shall issue state, undermining this basis is effectively degrading the ability of lawful gun owners to protect themselves from potential violence.	Apr-16-2013
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For	As we all know criminals don't obey gun control laws and still carry guns in prohibited areas. If we were to permit LAW ABIDING citizens to carry their concealed weapons on college campuses there would be less crime. Criminals would think twice before harming someone if they know that others around them may very well have weapons and are willing to use them to protect their life and the lives of others around them.	Apr-12-2013
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For	This deserved a vote. Not giving it a vote will diminish my respect for the Legislature.	Apr-12-2013
For	My daughter, a student at UNR, my husband and I all strongly support this bill. Although there has been concern about distractions of students carrying concealed weapons, you must keep in mind that every one with a Concealed Carry Permit are taught in the required classes that concealed firearms are supposed to be just that, CONCEALED. Criminals will have guns and other weapons regardless of the law. Knowing that law abiding citizens are armed on campus is one of the strongest deterrents that there could be to prevent a repeat of the Biela rapes. People with CCPs are among the most law abiding of citizens and this is not going to change if they are allowed to carry on campus. Major Michele L. Beard, USAF (Ret) Lt Col David P. Johnston, USAF, NC (Ret) Enid L. Johnston, Student, UNR	Apr-12-2013
For	You should bring this up for a vote rather than making a "one person" decisioin and preveinting the Assembly from taking a vote. Why are there not shootings on Israel campues? Because the instructors carry. Why leave the door open by prohibiting weapons which the shooters love? Send them a message that they will be going up against an armed army.	Apr-12-2013
For	As proven by current events, "Gun Free Zones" are "Killing Zones". The first line of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness..Is Life! We and our children deserve the God given right to protect our lives! right to protect their own lives.	Apr-12-2013
For	As a CCW holder, it makes no sense to be able to carry on one side of the street but not on the other. I'm still the same person on either side. I also am more aware of the environment and NOT showing a firearm or doing anything rash. Thank you for your consideration	Apr-12-2013
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For	Please bring AB 143 to a vote. Concealed Carry on Campus should be allowed to Permit Holders so there won't be more incidents like Amanda,s that could have been avoided. When these people who are out to harm other people know that there are those who can defend themselves, they won't be so quick to do their "dirty work". Please pass this bill AB143!!!	Apr-12-2013
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For	This legislation provides for promotes safety and would allow a person with a ccw permit to public carry a weapon. The only way to ensure safety is to allow for the carrying of firearms by lawful, trained and responsible parties, else you are subject to the whims of the perpetrator.	Apr-12-2013
For	This Bill supports the 2nd Amendment Rights of Individuals as afforded by the US Constitution and should be brought back to the Assembly's Judiciary Committee where they should support the Bill. It is known that law enforcement personnel, though well trained, can not be everywhere to protect personnel from a person determined to inflict harm. A person has the right to protect themselves. The State is setting itself up to pay out large sums of money if someone is harmed and the state took away a persons right to protect themselves.	Apr-12-2013
For	I think as long as your not a criminal and your carrying a gun for your protection and have gone through the proper steps you should have the right	Apr-11-2013
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For	ALLOW WOMEN THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE HOW TO DEFEND HER BODY PLEASE!!!	Apr-11-2013
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For	We need this.Lawabiding citizens have a right to protect themselves.	Apr-11-2013
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For	CCW carriers are more responsible and they need to be able to protect themselves from criminals on campus as well as off campus. Schools are too easy of a target for criminals. Please support this bill.	Apr-11-2013
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For	Allow people to defend themselves, I strongly urge this bill to move forward.	Apr-11-2013
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For	Please pass	Apr-11-2013
For	allow weapons on campus for concealed carry citizens	Apr-11-2013
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For	LU here in Lynchburg va, recently allowed students to carry concealed with a CCW permit. It should be allowed in all states for self protection against would be criminals. With proper training, anyone can carry.	Apr-11-2013
For	Pass it	Apr-11-2013
For	Please let us protect our self. and uphold the 2nd amendment	Apr-11-2013
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For	Please let the law abiding citizens have a choice as to whether to carry concealed weapons. Seeing Amanda Collins testimony ripped at my heart! We can't continue punishing law abiding people by gun laws that do very little to protect the innocent, and more or less protect the ciminals who have guns, and will continue to get these guns, no matter what the laws state! Thanks, Gary Foss	Apr-11-2013
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For	Victim disarmament zones have been created by not allowing people to carry weapons in certain places. This way of thinking has to stop, if we are to avoid creating more victims as a result of gun-free zones.	Apr-11-2013
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For	This bill may determine for me what is more important about my decision of sending my daughter to a Nevada College. She would be more safe if armed civilians were present and not be at the mercy of a criminal.	Apr-11-2013
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For	Amanda Collins is a wonderful example of why the government should not be allowed to restrict our rights to defend ourselves. If she had her gun, most likely two other ladies would not have been raped and Breanna Denison would still be alive.	Apr-11-2013
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For	Honest people will be the ONLY ones that will obey the law. Let the honest people defend themselves.	Apr-11-2013
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For	People with a CCW should be able carry on NSHU's with out having to get permission	Apr-11-2013
For	I strongly support the line which states "...authorizing persons who hold permits to carry concealed firearms to carry concealed firearms on the property of the Nevada System of Higher Education under certain circumstances." So-called "gun-free zones" are ineffective at curbing gun violence. Allowing students with CCWs to adequately protect themselves while on campus is a good idea.	Apr-11-2013
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For	Please vote YES so that citizens can be armed and informed. This is the best way to fight crime!	Apr-11-2013
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For	I have a daughter getting ready to go to college. My daugeter and I will not consider any college that is a "Gun Free Zone". Then only the criminal is armed. I ask you to Stop making schools a victum rich envoroment. Respectfully Richard Lee	Apr-11-2013
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For	People need to be able to defend themselves from bad people.	Apr-11-2013
For	Good bill to close one of the "gun-Free" zones where our children are vulnerable to attack.	Apr-11-2013
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For	Put an end to these gun free zones, they are beacons for those bent on committing heinous crimes who will ignore the zones anyway. If you are trusting us enough to allow us to officially carry, then why can't we carry anywhere? why?	Apr-11-2013
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For	The problem with "Gun free zones" is that it allows scum like rapist, and murders and to come, and go, and do as they will...will it is TIME to stop that and stop it now.	Apr-11-2013
For	the contstition doesnt state anywhere that we even need a permitt to carry a gun for protection......all your laws are doing is giving the bad guy rule over us the law abiding citizen........let us protect us since u or anyone else is by our side to protect us.......we much be allowed to protect ourselves we are by GOD's rights able to protect ourselves any place ....my opinion	Apr-11-2013
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For	Please don't put women into a position where they could be raped or even killed without a way to preserve their own lives. Vote to pass AB143	Apr-11-2013
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For	This bill is needed in our state to protect our children.	Apr-11-2013
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For	There should be no place that a permitted ccw holder, law abiding citizens be restricted from protecting their rights to live and properly protect their family and/or property. Including any school campuses.	Apr-11-2013
For	Nevada has very stringent rules regarding who can conceal carry. The police can't be everywhere at once and we can't rely on there being law enforcement there at the exact moment we need them. The fact is law enforcement, in regard to violent crime, is reactionary after the crime has been committed. I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy. If a criminal has no idea who is and who isn't armed the potential victim pool gets pretty shallow. Criminals don't want to confront a victim that can fight back, they want an easy target. Do you think that girl who was raped on the UNR campus would have been if she had here firearm with her? She had her CCW permit in her wallet but couldn't carry her gun. Subsequently the girl who was later murdered may still be alive today or if she also had a CCW would have been able to defend herself against a physically more powerful assailant. I have a martial arts background, military training and I'm a pretty big guy and I still feel safer knowing I can protect myself and my family or even a stranger if a violent threat presents itself because I conceal carry. We aren't vigilantes or blood thirsty killers looking for a chance to shoot someone. Taking a life is the last thing I would ever want to do but if it's a criminal's life or mine on the line, my choice is clear.	Apr-11-2013
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For	Please schedule AB 143 for a work session and to pass it in committee.	Apr-11-2013
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For	This bill would allow our responsible concealed carry permit holders to protect themselves and others makeing our schools safer.	Apr-11-2013
For	Please support this bill. Thank you.	Apr-10-2013
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For	As not only a law abiding, Honorably Discharged Military Veteran, but also a Father and a Grandfather of four (4), I am also a full time student at Truckee Meadows Community College, There are countless times when dismissed from classes, late at night at any of the numerous campuses, there are countless of none student individuals roaming the campuses late at night, and not one TMCC police officer let alone any Reno Police present on any of the campuses. Therefore, I am pleading that you take into consideration on passage of AB143, to make our campuses safer.	Apr-10-2013
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For	Please help dissolve these "gun freezones" with responsible CCW carrying citizens. Gun free zones are easy targets for pathetic, disturbed criminals and as a full time college student, CCW holder and an NV Army National Guardsman, I am willing to risk my life to protect those who cannot.	Apr-10-2013
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For	If you are trained, liscenced to carry a gun for self defence. It is your american right to do so. If any poloticians family member where attacted, raped or God forbid murdered because they where not armed for self defence. It sure would be a different story. We make it so hard for a honest person to carry a gun. Where as it is so easy for a criminal to buy and carry a gun. If you ban honest people to carry agun for self protection. The only people that will have guns will be criminals.	Apr-10-2013
For	I am a Pro Freelance photographer. I was attending CCSN [now just CSN] when I received my CCW permit. I terminated two (2) weeks into that semester rather than forgo my safety. I do not agree with everything the NRA stands for; however, I am a member simply because our Federal Government is passing laws based upon emotion rather than logic. Forbidding someone with a CCW permit to carry on the north side of Cheyenne, but allowing them to carry on the south side just because there is a campus there is also NOT logical. Do lawmakers actually think criminals will cross the street? If Nevada Legislature wishes to make getting a CCW more difficult [I was surprised at just how easy it was- there wasn't even a Psychological evaluation [or do they think 'sane' people are committing these shootings?] I would be glad to offer my suggestions if anyone cared to ask.	Apr-10-2013
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Against	Regardless of the NRA scare tactics, the peace and tranquility of the higher education campuses have no need for the presence of guns/firearms - concealed or not.	Apr-10-2013
For	This would help to stop future mass shootings.	Apr-10-2013
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For	Please schedule AB 143 for a work session and to pass it in committee before this Friday. Thanks you.	Apr-10-2013
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Against	I agree with this bill. It is time that we allow our Students Faculty and staff to be able to protect themselves if they choose to do so. Gun Free Zones are nothing more that a target rich environment for criminals. I urge you all to support AB-143	Apr-10-2013
For	schedule AB 143 for a work session and to pass it in committee before this Friday.	Apr-10-2013
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For	Please hold another work session on this bill. Please remember the university members are paid by the People of Nevada. Please pass this bill.	Apr-10-2013
For	protect my rights move this forward	Apr-10-2013
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For	The passage of AB143 is Long Overdue. I respectfully urge the passing of this Bill.	Apr-10-2013
For	Schedule AB 143 for a work session and pass it in committee before this Friday.	Apr-10-2013
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For	Vote yes on this bill	Apr-10-2013
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For	Please support this bill before it dies, thanks and God bless	Apr-10-2013
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For	Passage of AB362 will provide all CCW holders the ability to protect themselves and others while on property of the Nevada University system as they have in most other locations throughout the state. Passage would also reduced the chance of a "mass" assault since the System of Higher Education properties would no longer be a gun free zone of defenseless targets for an assault.	Apr-10-2013
For	this bill should pass to help with the safety of students	Apr-10-2013
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For	Please support and pass this bill. When you take away the means for people to effectively defend themselves from those in our society that are bent on causing harm, you have effectively created a class of victims. Please pass this bill, allowing others to control the fundamental right of self defense is wrong.	Apr-10-2013
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For	Based on the inability of government to protect students and the rights given each citizen under the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution this Bill needs to be passed.	Apr-10-2013
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For	I want my daughter and others like her to have the option to defend themselves with more than just their voices and fingernails.	Apr-10-2013
For	I believe this is an effective way to defend and protect ourselves and others, when someone that is mentally ill decides to go on a rampage and shoot at a bunch of us that are left defenseless. I also believe this will detour them from attempting this type of craziness.	Apr-10-2013
For	This bill is needed in Nevada. Thank you	Apr-10-2013
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For	Please support this bill. Thank you	Apr-10-2013
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For	It is important that we can protect ourselves regardless of our location.	Apr-10-2013
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For	Common sense - YES!	Apr-10-2013
For	A woman in today's America who has not only seen the need to arm herself on a daily basis but has gone to the trouble of training herself in firearms and, more than likely, outfitted herself with enough firearm memorabilia, should be able to carry, use and protect herself anywhere in this country she wants to. Can you imagine the torture of a woman who is ostensibly trained to kill any would-be assailants to be not only brutally attacked but knowing the whole time that, "If only, if only, if only I hadn't followed the local law to the teeth, I wouldn't be wondering if I am going to make it out of this ordeal alive" Let law-abiding gun owners carry their guns wherever they see fit for a more secure and safe America. Even the majority of America's police force feel that an armed populace means a safer populace. Vote that this bill go through so no other woman has to be tortured with thoughts of, " What if?" and "If only."	Apr-10-2013
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For	Stop disarming law abiding citizens and enabling a safe workplace for rapists and criminals.	Apr-10-2013
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For	The only way to legally impose ANY gun control is to amend the Constitution, be it sate or national. The right to bear arms can not be infringed.	Apr-10-2013
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For	Gun control means nothing to Criminals. Please pass this Bill so Law abiding citizens can protect themselves.	Apr-10-2013
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For	If a person has a concealed and carry license they should be able to carry no matter where they are. They should be able to protect themselves if someone trying to rape them or harm any student. Its a crock that this is a debate the criminals don't care about laws that's why they are criminals. Give these students a piece of security to be able to protect themselves. Just require them to have proper training in use and securing the weapon.	Apr-10-2013
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For	There is no reason a citizen with a permit to carry concealed should be unable to take that weapon onto campuses.	Apr-10-2013
For	Please support the right of a woman to protect herself. My daughter was raped by a man with a gun, had she been armed she might have escaped years of pain and depression.	Apr-10-2013
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For	It makes no sense to enact a law that takes weapons from registered citizens who have had a background check and training. Isn't the goal to get them out of the hands of CRIMINALS not law abiding citizens???	Apr-10-2013
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For	I believe that responsible people should have the right to bear arms....schools like anywhere pose dangers. schools should not be exempt guns as violence doesn't exempt schools. college campus especially at night can be a dangerous area leaving many vulnerable and at more risk. please allow people the coninuing right to keep themselves safe anywhere. being a lady myself....i must leave my gun home for the school room, but i still have to walk alone to class and in areas that can be potentailly dangerous....violence will happen it s true but please dont take away my rights to protect myself!..rape is a horrid experience a man will never fully understand so please allow guns on campus for those who are responsible to carry in the first place!	Apr-10-2013
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For	If an individual has a concealed carry permit, you can be assured that they will not go "postal" on anybody. They have it to defend their personal safety and or life. To think otherwise is just being a complete MORON !!	Apr-10-2013
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For	Please advance assembly bill AB143	Apr-10-2013
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For	I would think that no matter where you live in the USA that you should have the right to be able to defend yourself. CWP carriers are people with common sense who takes the responsibility of there own safety very serious and have been trained and schooled about carrying firearms. We are not crazy people who are out looking for a fight. Every CWP person I know, are some of the quietest, nicest, helpful, respectful people you will ever meet. We understand that we must be respectful and courteous at all times. We are not cowboys going around looking for a fight. We take the responsibility of carrying a fire arm very serious. We pray to god that if criminals know that there are armed citizens allowed, that criminals would consider commenting a crime in that area is just not worth the chance they would have to take. Remember this. before policemen are police they are law abiding citizens just like us. Your not born a police man you take classes just like we do. We value life just like police do. We just want to be safe and live our life with out some criminal taken our life's or someone else. City's that have CWP and open carry tend to have less crime then city's with the toughest gun laws they are.	Apr-10-2013
For	It is our right and responsibility to protect ourselves as it is our, The People's Second Amendment Right To Bear Arms.	Apr-10-2013
For	If we didn't have a gun free law Breana Denason would be alive today!!	Apr-10-2013
For	Allowing concealed carry on campus will enhance the safety of all people on campus, with the possible exception of criminals. CCW holders have proven to be more law abiding than the public at large and areas where concealed carry is allowed have lower rates of violent crime. "Gun Free" zone only serve to disarm law abiding citizens and allow criminals to act with impunity.	Apr-10-2013
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For	This must pass.	Apr-10-2013
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For	Only criminals want "GUN FREE ZONES "	Apr-10-2013
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Against	This young lady wouldn't have had to endure this attack and have it be with her the rest of her life. it could've been prevented had this bill been in place, and I urge you to pass this to protect her from further attacks and other young women too.	Apr-10-2013
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For	Unintended consequence of the gun free zones has made it a place where predators can take advantage of law-abiding people and turn them into victims. Approving this bill will allow people to protect themselves and others as the need arises. This will not turn the campus into a wild west were shootouts are common place. Our citizen follow the law the people who have completed training are calm, thoughtful and respect life. That is why they did the training and applied for the CCW permits.	Apr-10-2013
For	Let law abiding citizens defend themselves.	Apr-10-2013
For	please help prevent more crime on university and other such property by allowing law abiding people the ability to conceal and carry. it will help prevent rape and other horrible crimes. most people know how to handel these situations having had to take classes and have background checks, and the like	Apr-10-2013
For	please vote yes for billAB143	Apr-10-2013
For	Anyone with a pistol permit should be able to by the Constitution Of The United States carry it with them for their protection and if that girl would have been able to carry her's in a gun free zone which should not exist she would not have been raped	Apr-10-2013
For	Every person that qualifies for a concealed carry permit in the State of Nevada should have the right to protect themselves no matter where they happen to be. I think this bill should be expanded to include all school, not just public colleges.	Apr-10-2013
For	It is ethically and morally wrong to prohibit someone to legally defend themselves.	Apr-10-2013
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Against	As an educator, I don't want guns on campus. I'd rather leave to the school police to handle weapons, as they're better trained to use them.	Apr-10-2013
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Against	I teach at CSN and I do not want any student who is upset to come to class or my office or the campus with extra weapons to be used in anger against me or any other innocent party!	Apr-10-2013
For	Do we really think we make our students more safe by labeling the environment they spend a majority of time in as "gun free"? If they have responsibly completed CCW they should be allowed to carry, period.	Apr-10-2013
For	I strongly support this bill as should all. This bill empowers our college students who have passed the ccw course, applied for and have been awarded a ccw the personal choice to either carry or not on campus.	Apr-10-2013
For	This bill must be brought up for a vote. Any bill that lessens restrictions on our constitutional rights must be passed. Our college students must have the same rights as all other citizens and should have the ability to protect themselves.	Apr-10-2013
Against	Are you all NUTS? BAD IDEA!	Apr-10-2013
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Against	As an NSHE faculty member, I do not want to teach in an environment where my students are carrying deadly concealed firearms.	Apr-09-2013
For	As it stands today, only people willing to break the law bring guns and knives to campus. When they do, they have thousands of helpless people to attack, people they know are unarmed. People that have a CCW are law abiding and pose no harm to the community. I hold a CCW and only carry in connection with my work. It would be a great help to be allowed to have my weapon safely carried in between classes and work. I know people think this would be a problem, but I respectfully remind you, now only criminals, with bad intent, bring guns and knives on campus. What is the harm allowing law abiding people to be armed and be able to defend others if a criminal tries to harm someone. Think about the recent shootings and even the knife attack today in Texas. . . How many people might have been saved from injury or death if a trained and licensed person could have stopped the mass killings? The choice is only allow criminals to carry guns OR allow safe and sane people to also carry and possibly stop a criminal before they kill. How many Sandy Hook, Columbine, or Texas type attacks can we have before we make our campuses safer? Again, respectfully, please consider this is a choice to improve safety, not reduce it. Make the criminals wonder who is armed and who is not. . . They will think twice before they attack.	Apr-09-2013
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Against	In Nevada a person can apply for and receive a concealed weapon permit at 21; the permit is good for 5 years. The typical age bracket for an initial schizophrenic episode is between 18 to 24. This means a person could receive a concealed weapon permit at 21 and within a year experience the onset of schizophrenia. I teach at the College of Southern Nevada and the majority of my on-ground students are between the ages of 18 to 25. That is why I do not support anyone who has a concealed carry permit being allowed to bring a gun into my classes. We have armed security guards on our campuses who are competent and trained to keep us safe; and we do active shooter training regularly. We are told that the number one factor for our security personnel to be able to stop an active shooter quickly is being able to pinpoint who that shooter is as fast as possible. Having more guns on campus will make that harder.	Apr-09-2013
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Against	Students, faculty and on and off-campus law-enforcement oppose weapons on NSHE campuses and for many good reasons.	Apr-09-2013
For	Well today it wasn't a gun that harmed more than a dozen students it was a knife. Now if just one of those students had a gun maybe this person with the knife might have been taken out before he could have inflicted all the harm that he did. Until U.S. citizens have the full right to fight back with firearms we might as well be Cuba, Russia, Venezuela? I for one do not have a CCW permit, but I now fully intend too, because you just never know when some mentally defective person will come at you with a weapon, not just guns.	Apr-09-2013
For	I support this bill. I know many employees and students in the NSHE that would safely carry and be able to protect themselves if (or when) attacked. The NHSE campuses are often scenes of crimes that are not reported to the general public, giving students/staff and community a false sense of security.I do not feel safe when visiting the NHSE campuses, and wish to be able to legally carry concealed when I have business on campus sites. The voters will remember those who vote against this bill and I will do my best to vote opponents to this legislation out of office in upcoming elections.	Apr-09-2013
For	I would also like to be allowed to carry in a public library! When will you people realize that "gun free" means WE are unarmed but those who want to shoot things up are NOT!?	Apr-09-2013
For	I support AB143. I was motivated to send you my opinion as I'm watching todays news. Today is April 9th 2013. I'm watching reports of a mass stabbing/slashing of college students on a college campus in Houston Texas. At least 14 people were seriuosly hurt. During an interview of one college student, the student was asked what he was thinking, while he was in a classroom and could hear the commotion outside in the hallway. His response was, "God was here on our side protecting us today. It's to bad the law wasn't here to protect us." He's right. It's ironic that you can't depend on the School Administration, the Police, or the law to ptotect you, but the only one you can rely on is God. And he's supposed to be banned from being in schools due to separation of Church and State. we need to put the law AND GOD in our schools to allow students and teachers to protect themselves with more than just prayer. I rather doubt prayer will be allowed in school, even though today it was there. We should allow guns since God isn't allowed.	Apr-09-2013
For	Please help our police to keep good people safe by allowing law-abiding, properly permited concealed carry permit holders to carry on campus, where they can better protect themselves and others.	Apr-09-2013
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For	Citizens who have concealed carry permits receive firearms training and are screened by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. They are not loose cannons with guns. They should be allowed to carry on campus in order to protect themselves and their fellow citizens from predators.	Apr-09-2013
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For	I am writing to express my support for Assembly Bill 143, which authorizes persons who have obtained a Concealed Carry of Weapons permit from their county sheriff to carry their weapon on the campuses of the NSHE (college campuses). In my opinion, Nevada's existing concealed carry permit approval regimen balances understandings of legal and moral matters with firearms handling that is entirely consistent with proper restraint in the face of exposure to both threats and day-to-day ordinary behavior (moving around among others while armed). It is my belief from being in contact with numerous CCW permit holders that there exists within the CCW holder community both the presence of a healthy respect for restraint and a proper orientation to public safety, while adding the ability to defend life and property under the appropriate circumstances. This is something we should do.	Apr-08-2013
For	I absolutely SUPPORT this bill that individuals who how a carry a valid CCW permit should be allowed to carry on the college campuses. This would deter would be assailants and protect the individual and other students and faculty on the campus.	Apr-08-2013
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For	Allow our students to protect themselves!	Apr-08-2013
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For	We insist that you OPPOSE AB-234 and support the strongest possible version of Campus carry bill AB-143. Mr. & Mrs. Mark Laymon	Apr-08-2013
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For	It is immoral to make university campuses gun-free killing zones by (unconstitutionally) taking the God-given right of self-defense from law abiding citizens. And, since when can the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) lobby for this law? The NSHE is tax-payer funded and should not be allowed to take a position in this debate.	Apr-08-2013
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For	Please support this bill, we need to take the right stance to allow people the right to protect themselves.	Apr-08-2013
For	Concealed Firearm Permit Holders do not suddenly turn into evil monsters when they set foot on a university or college campus. The current law barring people who hold CCW permits from bringing their weapons onto campus is a gross violation of the US Constitution's right to keep and bear arms and severely diminishes a person's ability to successfully defend themselves from attack. Murderers, Rapists, and Muggers are not affected by gun control laws since they are already breaking the law in regard to the crimes of murder, rape, and robbery. Gun control laws only affect law abiding citizens who are even more vulnerable and are made victims as a result of such ignorant gun laws.	Apr-08-2013
For	As a citizen i feel safer from those with evil intent, when those with good intent are armed nearby.	Apr-08-2013
For	We need to return the right of carrying a concelled weapon wherever we go for our protection. It must be a person with the legal right to carry and with the proper training to use such a firearm. It is for us to protect ourselves from those who will not obey the law.	Apr-08-2013
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For	Citizens should not have to choose to give up second amendment rights for personal protection when pursuing higher education. Criminals know no boundaries and do not respect no gun zones.	Apr-08-2013
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For	Our rights don't end at the University boundary. Adults (especially young adults) who are legally qualified to carry a weapon for self defense and who have accepted the associated responsibility should not be denied their rights. The life they may save could be your son or daughter.	Apr-08-2013
For	Save a life!	Apr-08-2013
For	The main reason these people get away with the mass shootings is that they use safe zones where they know there will be no one to stand up to them. If you allow concealed carry citizens to carry then they won't know if they will be shot back at or not and they will be less inclined to try it.	Apr-07-2013
For	Urge all to support this bill.	Apr-07-2013
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For	Even though I do not live in Nevada, I want to support the right to carry a concealed weapon wherever. I hope that you will approve this bill. Thank you for listening to an out-of-stater who does visit your wonderful state especially Lake Tahoe where I used to boat frequently when I lived in Sacramento, CA.	Apr-07-2013
Against	Every woman that is raped or beat because of these laws that prohibit them from carrying a fire arm to protect themselves the state should be held responsible!	Apr-07-2013
For	Amanda Collins had a valid concealed carry permit when she was raped on the University of Nevada at Reno campus. She was forced to leave her firearm at HOME because of Nevada state law. This law needs to be overturned.	Apr-07-2013
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For	I work at UNLV and have a CCW. I feel like I should be able to protect myself in the event of an active shooter. I respect UNLV police very much but by the time they respond, I'm dead without any defense.	Apr-07-2013
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For	I believe this will be a great step forward in creating a much safer, prosperous and exemplary environment. I am a student who goes to CSN, I feel much safety knowing that there are people armed and ready to protect themselves from a person who wants to cause harm and destruction	Apr-07-2013
For	Gun free zones only do one thing, and that's to keep the law abiding citizens from being able to protect themselves. Criminals do not care about gun free zones. They are still going to break the law.	Apr-07-2013
For	This WILL be a great deterrent to potential crime.	Apr-07-2013
For	Please allow Law Abiding Citizens to protect themselves! Police can't be there in time! You know this!	Apr-07-2013
For	Wake up	Apr-07-2013
For	Please eliminate gun free zones. It only attracts people interested in harming others because they know no one can stop them until law enforcements arrives, which is generally too, late.	Apr-07-2013
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For	I am a law abiding citizen that has gone through the process to obtain my CCW, please stop punishing me by hampering my abilities to defend myself and those I care about. Gun Free Zones do not work. Punish those that break the laws, not the citizens that follow them.	Apr-07-2013
For	Don't limit my right to carry a firearm anywhere. Making this legal will simply allow me and other citizens to exercise our rights fully. 2nd amendment is a right not a privilege.	Apr-07-2013
For	Please Approve this bill!	Apr-07-2013
For	woman have the right to protect themselves regardless of where they are. a "gun free zone" only tells rapist and others with criminal intent where to find easy targets. besides the constitution of the united states says "without infringement". please stand up for, and protect, the constitution as you had sworn, under oath, to do. i may not be from that district, but you are talking about college campuses, in which people from all over the country can possibly attend, so it does effect everyone.	Apr-07-2013
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For	Allow her and others to protect them selfs they have the right when you stop allowing people to be victims they crimes will lower	Apr-07-2013
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For	This simply common sense, to eliminate 'gun free zones' so people can protect their lives and those of their family and anyone else who is in Danger of being harmed.	Apr-07-2013
For	The idea of concealed carry is for your personal protection and the protection of those around you. If you cannot carry where attack is lost likely to occur, then it's useless. I believe we should be able to defend ourselves at any time and any place.	Apr-07-2013
For	With the passage of this bill, Nevada can help lead this nation back to the correct center. No law abiding citizen should be forced to be without firearm protection unless it is by their own free will!	Apr-07-2013
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For	Reasonsible women have the granted right to carry a gun by the 2nd Amendment.....Do educated lawmakers & overthinkers of the laws really think a Gun-free zone or a sign will actually stop a criminal.....? Quit giving rights to criminals who are willing to throw them away to commit these crimes because they know the punishment won't fit the crime...Your thinking is backasswards....I don't live in your state, but would like to see that because your state passes this law other states will follow suit. You know this needs to be done. It's the right thing to do!	Apr-07-2013
For	Your job as politicians is to protect our rights. This bill does that by allowing us to further exercise our rights and should be one in a long line of many bills to do so!	Apr-07-2013
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For	Our citizens have the right to defend themselves against criminals and madmen.	Apr-07-2013
For	At the same time make it a crime for ANYONE, INCLUDING POLICE OFFICERS AND MILITARY PERSONEL, to carry a firearm within 1/2 mile of any State Lawmaker! PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH, GOVERNMENT!	Apr-07-2013
For	I support the change, but I dislike the written permission stipulation portion because it will potentially be a bureaucratic nightmare to try to get that written permission, and some places will likely simply deny any and all requests. I dislike the idea that if an administrator is afraid of guns, their opinion can potentially put students and faculty at risk by making their campus effectively a "Gun-Free Zone", which would be viewed as a "Target Rich Environment" for any lunatic wanting their 15 minutes of fame. I also disagree with a portion of the existing law as it currently reads (mainly because it makes no sense, as written). In 202.265 Section 1, part (f), it potentially makes it illegal to possess writing instruments at any education facility, which is just idiotic. Just because they say the pen is mightier than the sword is no reason to outlaw them from schools.	Apr-07-2013
Against	Keep our campuses safe by voting against this bill. The campus police forces should be the only ones with guns on campuses. They are skilled and trained to use a weapon against criminals. There is no need for students, faculty, or staff to carry weapons that may result in more injuries or deaths if everyone starts opening fire every time they see a crime or an actual shooter gets on campus.	Apr-07-2013
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For	Guns in the hands of good people save lives. Guns in the hands of good people make criminals think twice about attacking, robbing, or raping an 'easy' target.	Apr-07-2013
For	This bill should passed to allow LAW ABIDING citizens to protect their lives and property! It should NOT even be a debate......IT'S OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT !!!!! The 2nd Amendment should allow ALL law abiding citizens to carry from coast to coast and border to border. Key phrase: "LAW ABIDING"	Apr-07-2013
For	Why does the right to protect myself cease to exist on college campus' anyway. I can only hope my home state of PA does the same!	Apr-07-2013
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For	My husband and I are very concerned for our daughter's saftey and want her to have the ability to protect herself while on campus. Please pass this bill.	Apr-07-2013
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For	I am agraid of the governments declaration of a New World Order and its dire implications. Everyone should have the right and the OBLIGATION to defend themselves however they can including firearms before criminals are the only ones with the ability.	Apr-07-2013
For	My daughter will be attending UNLV in a few years so it is very important to my family that AB143 passes.	Apr-07-2013
For	Please support this bill to eliminate dangerous "gun free" zones on college campuses. Allow college students and employees to protect themselves, and do not hinder their ability to carry their weapons in other places by forcing them to leave their weapons at home. Thank you.	Apr-07-2013
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For	We should be allowed to protect ourselves in any setting, especially if we have a permit to carry a concealed weapon. I bet so many rapes wouldn't occur if we were able to carry our guns.	Apr-07-2013
For	As legal Americans we have the right to protect ourselves against any threat by way of any means.	Apr-07-2013
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For	This in my opinion is truly a step in the right direction. If we are unable to defend ourselves we become bigger targets. This bill if passed will make it possible for those to defend themselves on said property after so many years of being targets.	Apr-07-2013
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For	Giving criminals the ability to willfully commit violent crimes against any law abiding peaceful citizen, by not allowing the citizen the opportunity to protect themselves and others is only contributing to violent crimes and empowering the criminals. Laws that restrict responsible citizens bare less restrictions towards criminals therefore giving power to the criminals. Responsible citizens have never been the problem, laws that give criminals the power are the problem.	Apr-07-2013
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For	Allow people to defend themselves when needed. Criminals will dont follow laws.	Apr-07-2013
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For	Women have EVERY right to protect themselves.	Apr-07-2013
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For	911 dose not work for civilians an nether does stop an frisk :O(	Apr-07-2013
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For	Stop colleges from being stocking grounds,PLEASE!!! pass this bill.	Apr-07-2013
For	I believe everyone has the right to defend themselves. The right to own firearms is written in our constitution. The key words here are Law abiding citizens and personal safety and since in recent tragedies educational institution tend to be a preferred target, mostly due to the fact that these are known to be unprotected and unarmed locations (aka easy target) it is more critical than ever to pass this bill into law. (Nevada, lead our nation!)	Apr-07-2013
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For	Women need the right to protect themselves.	Apr-07-2013
For	Not knowing who is armed is a great deterrent to someone contemplating harming innocent people. An armed and trained person with concealed carry who is present at the site of attack would greatly reduce the number of casualties. Thank you!	Apr-07-2013
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For	I am not from your state, but please know that anything you can do to support the Constitution and the 2nd Amendment is good for the country as a whole.	Apr-07-2013
For	The RIGHT to self defense is inherent but guaranteed by the second amendment. There is no distinction as to where one can and cannot defend oneself. Please	Apr-06-2013
Against	All you have to do is read the news with the college campus and high school shootings by students. I do not like it when one female is raped, but teach self-defense. DO NOT ALLOW GUNS ON CAMPUS!	Apr-06-2013
For	Please vote for this bill	Apr-06-2013
For	Please support this bill. I am a college student and I want to be able to carry my gun with me to protect me for attackers, rapist, and robbers. Please support this bill.	Apr-06-2013
For	NO WOMAN SHOULD BE UNABLE TO DEFEND HERSELF, WHEN NEEDED.	Apr-06-2013
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Against	A majority of college students are young and frequently do not have the maturity to problem solve or resolve disputes effectively. I believe that the ability to bring concealed weapons onto the campus can potentially end in dangerous situations. I do not feel comfortable or safe knowing that I could be near people with concealed weapons. Please defeat this legislation.	Apr-06-2013
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For	More guns equal less crime. Gun free zones are shooting galleries for criminals who don't obey the law anyway.	Apr-06-2013
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For	The solution for gun violence in school areas is to stop making "Defenseless zones" where criminals are told that defenseless potential victims are being set up by our government for criminals to freely harm.	Apr-06-2013
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For	This will protect women. Please vote for AB143.	Apr-06-2013
For	We need to allow more young people to carry guns leagally on campus so that they don't become victims of those who would dare to do them harm. Trained people with guns are not a threat to anyone but the bad guys. Follow the Constitution and allow concealed carry on campus.	Apr-06-2013
For	Please strongly support this bill!	Apr-06-2013
For	I think that every one should be able to have and carrie a firearm, when and where ever they feel that they have a need. If someone has the trainning they can feel safe, and mabe never have to use it. As I am a Disabled Vet, and I have a fl CWP, and I will carrie when ever I feel the need, Legal or NOT. I have kids that if they do not feel safe, they know how to use a firearm when needed, and that makes me feel safe, when they go away from my home.	Apr-06-2013
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For	This is a very smart choice to make. It is time for everyone to realize that our govt. to include law enforcement is here to serve "we the people" and not to protect us. Please abolish all gun free zones, they serve no purpose other than allowing criminals a place to find easy prey. (Ex-Law enforcement officer)	Apr-06-2013
For	It is our right PERIOD.......	Apr-06-2013
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For	This is a good bill and should have been brought up for a vote last legislative session. I have heard amanda collins speak about her rape at UNR just 100 yds from the security bldg. She is a very brave young woman and I believe she would not have been raped if she had been allowed to carry her concealed weapon. Also if she had beem able to shoot the attacker he wouldn't have been able to rape and kill the next young woman at the same campus!!!! Please help give our students and children the right to conceal carry and protect themselves. I know I would feel safer as my daughter goes to UNLV and is only 5'2 and a 110 lbs and would not be able to stop a male attacker without a gun!!!!	Apr-06-2013
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For	Please compare the crime rates with the concealed carry laws and cast your vote accordingly. Law abiding citizens should not be restricted to benefit the criminals. Maybe you can save a life. Thank you.	Apr-05-2013
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For	The best way to protect the innocent is to allow them to arm themselves legally. By not allowing this, you create victims. Allow those seeking to better themselves to protect themselves from those who only seek to bring anguish and despair to those better than them.	Apr-05-2013
For	The ONLY way to protect the innocent and defeat crime is for good guys to have guns. These tragedies of school shootings are unacceptable. Those who choose to should be able to be lawfully equipped to be armed and able to stop a criminal before he/she/they can hurt anyone.	Apr-05-2013
For	I'm not from Nevada, but passing this bill would make me proud, and it would set a precedent for the rest of the country. Give the residents of Nevada the right and ABILITY to protect their selves and those around them from acts of violence. Thank you.	Apr-05-2013
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For	I support this because it truly will help resolve an ongoing safety issue on college campus'. Thank you for caring enough about our youth as to help protect them as they venture into the real world. Even if not all students carry, the idea that there are students who do will make all the difference to deter criminals. I have family in Pahrump, NV and friends in other areas of NV.	Apr-05-2013
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For	Gun free zones = target rich environments!	Apr-05-2013
For	I am a former Las Vegan, with college students for children. Crime, especially violent crime on campuses is rising. Funding for things like security is decreasing. Those legally carrying weapons are generally better trained, more informed, and more responsible than those who carry illegally for the purpose of crime and intimidation. I'd rather know a trained, responsible, weapons carrying citizen is walking next to me, than not know a criminal is carrying and help is a long time away.	Apr-05-2013
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For	I am currently considering transferring to Henderson, NV to work as a registered nurse and complete an advanced paramedicine program to prepare for flight nursing. I believe STRONGLY that educated, trained citizens should be allowed to carry concealed weapons in order protect ourselves and others should someone bent on taking innocent lives threaten us. I would like to voice my strong support of this legislation, and inform you that such legislation would make Nevada a top choice for both employment and higher education for myself and many of my professional collegues.	Apr-05-2013
For	its better to have more good citizens with firearms than bad citizens ...	Apr-05-2013
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For	It should be allowed for people to feel safe to carry a gun if they choose too.	Apr-05-2013
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For	Please allow us to defend ourselves while on campus. People who have been threatened or attacked already carry a pistol as protection. This bill would make that discreet protection legal.	Apr-05-2013
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For	I am a full time college student and a concealed carry permit holder in Washoe County (A-1456313, Issued 23Feb12. There are many nights when I am on campus until well after midnight. Because the vast majority of my classes occur on the south end of campus I am often parking south of campus on or near Evans St. or 8th St. There have been more than one occasion where I have felt it would be safer for me to have my firearm than not, but I do not carry because I am forced to spend most of my day on campus. How or why should I compromise my own safety just to continue my education?	Apr-05-2013
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For	The ability to defend ones self should not be legislated, but rather a god given right.	Apr-05-2013
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For	Its our right	Apr-05-2013
For	With constant budget cuts, campus security included, the people have a right to defend themselves wherever they may go. People take night classes frequently on college campuses and have to walk to their cars alone at night which is unsafe. Give people the right to protect themselves	Apr-05-2013
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For	we live in a time where crimminals do not fear our system of law.the prisons are a joke as is our court system.tougher prisons and harsh punishment is the only way to get this turned around maybe then we can limit our need for personal defense until then we need it .thank you for reading.	Apr-05-2013
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For	I am a female college student at both CSN and UNLV. There has been atleast three times a man has followed me to my car or atleast around the area. The only thing I could think about was how badly I wish I had my gun on me. This is an important matter to many college students! I should not have to fear for my life while attending school.	Apr-05-2013
For	A "gun free zone" simply means "target rich environment" from criminals, especially rapists. PLEASE allow legal gun owners with a concealed carry license to protect themselves at all time and in all locations - even schools.	Apr-05-2013
For	Approve Asap	Apr-05-2013
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For	We protect our President, Govenor, and money. Why not our children? We should have a right to defend ourselves. This is not about guns it's about people. Bad people kill others. So why are we not allowed to protect ourselves from the bad people? Do the right thing, make a statement to our county. Pass AB143!	Apr-05-2013
For	I pray that you will support this bill and keep Americans safe!	Apr-05-2013
Against	I am very concerned with this bill being passed. I read the emotional testimony from the woman that had been raped on campus. My heart goes out to her. Please listen to what I have to say in this matter because I too have been raped. I would suffer emotional distress coming to school everyday knowing that men, several of them, would be carrying guns. The latest public shootings are still random acts. To pass sweeping legislation that would change a policy to affect students everyday is not the answer. I am asking that you hear my voice in this matter. I do not feel safe on my campus with guns.	Apr-05-2013
For	I am currently a Criminal Justice major at CSN. One of my professors made two statements that I found interesting. The first was that he was opposed to this bill in 2011. He made a good argument to support his opposition; in an active shooter situation any person with a firearm may be shot. I don't want to be shot, no sane person would. However, I am forced to question if this is really a threat. Are our police officer trained to evaluate their target before shooting? It's a POST requirement. It was part of my CCW training. Even if we say there is no issue with his concern, why can't I make the choice to put myself at that risk? The second statement made was a common gun supporter quote. "When seconds count the police are only minutes away." Based on my knowledge and experience this is VERY accurate. In 2012 CSN began installing emergency phones in every classroom. When the phone is picked up it dials directly to the CSN police dispatch. Several weeks ago one of my professors knocked the phone off the hook, then replaced it. About five minutes later we got a response. An unarmed security guard opened the door, saw that people were in the room, and left. He did no investigation. He did not check to ensure that the professor was a staff member, check to see that there were no injuries, or check behind a blind corner to see is anyone was hiding. He opened the door, looked in, and left never considering the possibility of a criminal (or student angry about a grade) knowing the system, taking over the classroom while hiding in the one spot not visible from the doorway, and waiting for the check to happen. Had he then shot the professor after the security guard left how long would it have taken help to arrive? How long would it take for police to arrive had it been an obvious active shooter situation. When seconds count the police are only seconds away. I STRONGLY request passage of this bill. The law currently targets law abiding citizens, not the criminals it intends.	Apr-05-2013
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For	We as American have a right to protect our self. My sister is 60 and live alone,does not have a gun, two night ago at 2AM someone was trying to break in on her. she turn on the porch light and saw a black man run off, It took 45 min for the Police to get there, The Law can`t protect us. All they can do is write a report on what happen.	Apr-05-2013
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For	It is important to allow students to not have to worry about being victims when they need to focus on education. Let's take the fear of attack out of the equasion and allow students the chance to defend themselves against personal or group attacks by those who mean to do harm.	Apr-05-2013
For	We should not punish a citizen who has gone through the extensive background checks to get a CCW by removing their ability to protect themselves if they go to college!	Apr-05-2013
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For	This sets the standard for other states. Please support law abiding citizens rights to protect themselves.	Apr-05-2013
For	I am not from Nevada, however I was on campus during the Virginia Tech shooting. I have carried a gun and been taught gun safety since I was a child. I have no doubt that a responsible person, legally carrying a gun, could have save several lives that day. The students do not have the same police presence in the classrooms that higher school officials have in or near their buildings. Being able to defend yourselves in a horrific circumstance should not be prohibited.	Apr-05-2013
For	I am a college student in Oregon and the thought of an active shooter on campus is something I think about often. I think responsible persons, such as criminal justice students, should be allowed to carry a concealed weapon on campus to help prevent another tragedy of a college campus shooting. Of course the proper permits and training should be obtained by anyone wanting to carry a concealed weapon.	Apr-05-2013
For	People should be allowed to defend themselves.	Apr-05-2013
For	I am FOR the 2nd Amendment and I believe that crime goes down when the people are armed. Rape is a fear that all our young women have and a hidden gun, or even the thought of one would deter a criminal. The person that carries a gun should be responsible to get safety training.	Apr-05-2013
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For	TAKING AWAY ANY RIGHTS OF AN AMERICAN IS WRONG AND EVERY STATE SHOULD STAND UP FOR OUR CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS AS WRITTEN BY OUR FOREFATHERS....THIS IS THE LAW OF THE LAND FOR OVER TWO HUNDRED YEARS AND IT HAS WORKED EVERY YEAR SINCE SIGHNING....	Apr-05-2013
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For	I live in the greater Philadelphia, Pa. area, so I understand how vulnerable our students are. This is a Hugh chance for you to protect our citizens studying to become more intelligent and more employable. It's almost your patriotic responsibility to help keep our students safer.	Apr-05-2013
For	I support this bill. I do not see a sign or a statute for a "gun free zone" stopping someone with criminal intent. I do, however, see someone with a concealed carry weapons permit for self defense as a very strong deterrent to that very same person with criminal intent. If the criminal knows that someone might be armed, they will think twice. Criminals always look for easy targets and when you have a statute that confirms law abiding citizens are unarmed, easy targets exist. Let us now deny our students, our future, to be unarmed and unable to defend themselves in only the most dire of need.	Apr-05-2013
For	Please approve Concealed Carry with permit to carry on college campuses. For the protection of all. Send the message to criminals that crimes on campuses will not be tolerated. Thank You.	Apr-05-2013
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For	As has been said before, "gun free" zones tell psychopaths with guns that they have an easy shooting gallery with shooting targets. Allowing citizens who've gone through proper procedures to become licensed to carry will be an excellent deterrent. Virginia Tech might have looked different had a teacher or faculty member been armed. To those who have said the training isn't enough, I highly doubt you took the course, because half the time, the instructor will encourage students to keep working on their skills and take additional training.	Apr-05-2013
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For	I applaud this Act and encourage all lawmakers to approve this, and any like, bill concerning our freedoms!	Apr-05-2013
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For	CCW holders are more likely to stop a crime than to commit one. Persons intent on committing a crime will not observe gun free zones such as NSHE so logic dictates that CCW holders should be permitted to carry on campus. Thank you for your consideration.	Apr-04-2013
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For	All people who legally have firearms should be allowed to carry at Universities. It is our right to carry guns whenever and where ever. PLEASE pass this bill to protect our students	Apr-04-2013
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Against	The requirements for concealed carry permits are inadequate training for using a weapon in the complex environment of a university or school campus. I am uneasy about untrained persons with deadly weapons in places with masses of people. The information requirements in the bill are completely inadequate.	Apr-04-2013
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For	It is their 2 amendment right to defends themselves if needed.	Apr-04-2013
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For	Please use your head and/or your heart and pass this bill so our Nevada students stand a chance!	Apr-04-2013
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For	I strongly request your vote be in favor of this bill	Apr-04-2013
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For	This imaginary line needs to be removed. Punishing law abiding citizens by stripping their constitutional right is not the solution. Those who choose to obtain a CCW do so so they can protect themselves when "help" is far away. There are several states like Colorado and Utah that allow CCW holders to carry on campus and I urge Nevada to be the same. Let people choose to be able to defend themselves instead of forcing them to be victims.	Apr-04-2013
For	As a college professor at Truckee Meadows Community College I support AB143 allowing those with CCW permits to carry firearms onto campus.	Apr-04-2013
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For	Pass this bill and help keep your citizens safe.	Apr-04-2013
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For	The Amanda girl is the perfect example to teach the importance of this right. I fully believe if this were a national bill the country would be a safer place.	Apr-04-2013
For	Please pass AB143! CCW permit holders are responsible and should have the right to carry on campus. Just looking at the other states who have passed this and seeing that there are NO issues with accidental shootings or any incidents is a positive motive for passing this. And trying to say that people could go party and carry is another point I would like to make -- During training to carry, you are taught the safest way to carry, and all the safest scenarios. Being responsible, CCW holders know alcohol and guns don't mix. Plus you must be 21 before you can legally carry. I think it is scary that they have had many students request to carry with non of them being granted the right, unless it is for a teaching lesson or show & tell sort of thing. My right to carry should not suddenly change as soon as I step across the street onto the campus.	Apr-04-2013
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For	Finally! Some truly common sense firearm and self protection legislation.	Apr-04-2013
For	Amanda may have killed Biela had democrats not stopped her. 35 years in law enforcement was a constant battle with evil perps protected by democrats and their minions creating untold misery for righteous law abiding Americans.	Apr-04-2013
For	I BELIEVE THIS BILL'S PASSING WOULD GREATLY INCREASE THE SECURITY OF OUR CHILDREN!!!!!!!!! I WOULD ALSO SUPPORT THE SAME IN MY STATE, I AM TELLING ALL MY FRIENDS I NEVADA TO SUPPORT THIS BILL!!!!!!!!!!!	Apr-04-2013
For	Gun free translates to Target Rich. If you would NOT post a sign in front of your house stating to all, that your home is 100% GUN FREE, then you are already under the meaning that this bill should be passed. Lead the way. Don't be a Chicago.	Apr-04-2013
For	Nevada's concealed carry statute currently makes young women (who are otherwise permitted to carry concealed for self-defense) more vulnerable as they commute to and from school. Please do what you can to make our schools safer: vote on AB 143...and vote yes.	Apr-04-2013
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For	In favor of as written	Apr-04-2013
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For	This bill is important to pass so that students and faculty have the right to chose how to protect themselves on campus just like they do everywhere else!	Apr-04-2013
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Against	Are we nuts. The answer is not more guns. How many violent shootings have occured in schools, on campuses and in other places where many people are gathered? A gun will not save a woman from rape; more likely it would be used to kill her.	Apr-04-2013
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For	Nevada must send a strong "freedom" message to the Federal Government. Our safety and our rights are our business. This bill would improve public safety and peel back restrictions that should not exist in a free society. Students and staff should be allowed to defend themselves on or off campus.	Apr-03-2013
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For	I am against any further taxes on guns, there is already a big tax on guns in Nevada, I am also against requiring insurance on gun ownership or any tax levy for individual rounds of amunition (2 cents per bullit.) I do not have the bill numbers on these proposed bills.	Apr-03-2013
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For	I came to testify in the hearing today, but some people spoke a bit too long. Amanda Collins was very moving- Her mother should have kept it very simple- I was against CCW on campuses, but I was wrong, boy was I wrong! Her testimony was way too long. That is all water under the bridge. And now to the reason I came to testify. First of all, for a historical perspective, when I went to college, as soon as I turned 18, my parents gave me a 12-Gauge shotgun for my room. I had two sons who attended and graduated from UNR (Geology and Civil Engineering). They both lived a couple of blocks from the UNR campus (not together) for their last 3 years. 5 1/2 years ago on Nevada Day Weekend, two of my younger sons friends were murdered at a party. (the perps were caught, but unfortunately only received life without the possibility of parole.) Fortunately he was not at that party. He very rapidly obtained his CCW permit. He could not, however, carry on campus. Fast forward about 11 months- I was teaching physics at WNC on Tuesdays and Thursdays- I often have business in Berkeley, CA and happened to be down on a Wednesday. I walked out of a meeting around 8;30 PM towards my car about 4 blocks North of the UCB campus. Two black hoods came up behind me and shoved a 9mm in my face. They got everything- the clairvoyance was overwhelming. I followed California law and kept my gun in the trunk of my vehicle- and could do nothing about it. It turns out these perps were greedy and ended up holding up ~25 people during a 6 week span before they were caught. One of their relatives called me up and wanted me to meet with me- I told him that I had some real estate on the moon I could sell him! Given the stories from the neighborhoods around the UNR campus, I was grateful that when I taught nuclear physics at UNR, it was a middle-of-the-day course. I did not have issues fortunately, but it would have been far more comforting if I could have carried on campus.	Apr-03-2013
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For	As a student at UNLV, I fear for my safety everytime I leave campus to get to my vehicle. UNLV is not in a good neighborhood. One of my female friends was held at gunpoint across the street from UNLV as she was leaving campus to get to her vehicle. Another one of my friends was across the street from UNLV when a group of thugs tried to mug him. I'm a CCW and I'm unable to protect myself when I go to school. This bill needs to pass for my safety and the safety of other CCW students on campus.	Apr-03-2013
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Against	The answer to gun violence is not the introduction of more guns. This will make me feel less safe on campus.	Apr-03-2013
For	When an individual has been properly trained, then that individual should be allowed to carry--anywhere!! We know from recent massacres--Sandy Hook and the Aurora, CO shooting--these places were selected because the killers KNEW they were gun free zones. In order to truly protect, a trained individual should be allowed to carry the concealed weapon anywhere, including schools. Let's do it!!	Apr-03-2013
For	Assemblywoman Fiore did a great job in writing and amending this bill to cover all aspects of any argument against this bill. I am very much supportive of this bill and feel that had this been in place in other States, many people could have been saved.	Apr-03-2013
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For	It is our inalienable right for self protection against these criminals!	Apr-03-2013
For	Will protect our kids!	Apr-03-2013
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For	The states and city's that have strict gun laws and gun free zones have much higher crime rates and more violance.	Apr-03-2013
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For	Gun free zones are the most dangereous because criminals are assured they will not meet resistance unless or untill an armed authority arrives. It infringes on 2nd ammendment right to defend one's self.	Apr-03-2013
For	Students should not lose their right to defend themselves on, or on the way to and from, college campuses.	Apr-03-2013
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For	As a mother of three, My mind would be set at ease if the security at our school would be allowed to carry a firearm. I strongly feel that gun-free zones only equate helpless victim zones. Thank you.	Apr-03-2013
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For	Strongly recommend support for this bill. My two daughters attend UNLV and I support them being able to carry while attending evening and night classes.	Apr-03-2013
For	Nevada citizens should not be discouraged from responsible gun ownership.	Apr-03-2013
Against	We need to get weapons off the campus, not put more on the campus.	Apr-02-2013
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For	As a female, wife, mother and grandmother, I strongly support this bill for both males and females. In the history of this world, the most likely survivors are those who are able to protect themselves and their loved ones. Unprotected individuals are most likely to be murdered and maimed. If there is any amendment to this bill it might be to "eliminate gun-free zones" except where professional law enforcement employees on duty are required and able to instantly protect the facility occupants from criminal attacks such as a jails, court houses, military facilities, and similar functions.	Apr-02-2013
For	Armed guards in schools will protect students.	Apr-02-2013
For	Our college students should have the right to defend themselves. I am in support of this Bill.	Apr-02-2013
For	I believe that, if passed, this legislation will greatly increase the safety of the public. The first and best protector of a person is that person himself/herself. Police response times can and do vary wildly and law enforcement cannot be relied upon to respond in enough time to make a difference. To best protect the populace, that same populace must protect itself. In addition, since the Supreme Court has ruled that law enforcement has no duty to protect the individual, it is up to each individual to protect himself/herself. The right to protect oneself has hitherto been denied to persons in public buildings or on NSHE premises.	Apr-02-2013
For	How is it that people 18 years old can serve in the military to protect America use assualt rifles and any other type of weapon and when they go to college they can't even protect themselves?	Apr-02-2013
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For	What about a college campus makes otherwise law abiding, background checked, fingerprinted adults somehow ineligible to the right of self-defense?	Apr-02-2013
For	Allowing CCW on campus, protects the people there.	Apr-02-2013
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For	People have the right to defend themselves, and no government official should dispute that. The government officials are supposed to be protecting people's rights, not trying to take them away. It is the duty of every elected official to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. If elected officials would do their duty, bills like this would not be necessary.	Apr-02-2013
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For	Will provide responsible, law abiding citizens the right of personal protection en-route to and from campus and while on campus without violating an Unconstitutional law.	Apr-02-2013
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For	I believe that your pre-existing, fundamental right you were both with; the right of self-preservation is not limited to the use of a government approved shotgun as long as you are in your own home. I support AssemblyWoman Fiore's Campus Carry Bill.	Apr-02-2013
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For	This is good legislation and makes sense.	Apr-02-2013
For	I ask, why would anyone have any issues with law abiding citizens (who have been issued a CCW) carrying firearms on a college campus. Do we not trust law abiding citizens. Support AB 143	Apr-02-2013
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For	Allow us to defend ourselves!	Apr-02-2013
For	Young people & instructors on campus NEED to protect themselves from VIOLENCE!	Apr-02-2013
For	Brianna was killed just off campus, could just as well have been on campus. No lone girl is safe walking on campus at night WITHOUT protection! Defense!	Apr-02-2013
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For	As a responsible law abiding citizen and with a daughter that attends UNLV, individuals with a CCW have been trained, qualified and have had an extensive background check may be able to render aid if needed. These are the good guys who can help protect against the bad guys.	Apr-02-2013
For	All the citizens to protect themselves. Don't make college campuses gun free zones. This is crazy. Only helps the criminals.	Apr-02-2013
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For	This is a good idea. This would allow me to apply for my next CCW renewal in the fall when the weather was nice for the firing range part of the class and get the application in early enough to avoid the no-carry window caused by the 120 days it is taking for processing the renewal application and issuing the renewed CCW.	Apr-02-2013
For	Students need to be able to defend them selves.	Apr-02-2013
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For	This bill is long overdue. If it were in place in 2007 Amanda Collins would have been able to defend herself against the man who brutally raped her on the grounds of UNR. This should be known as the Amanda Collins Bill.	Apr-02-2013
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For	I am in support of AB143. Is it any wonder that criminals target gun-free zones? Have you ever heard of a criminal "shooting it up" in a gun store? It defies logic why anyone would vote to restrict persons, already screened as competent to carry firearms, from providing a deterent to crminal activity.	Apr-02-2013
For	It's about time that we the people wake up to the reality, the world is becoming a dangerous place. No longer can we leave are doors unlocked or take a walk in the park without being aware of those around us. There is much to say however I'll leave it at that.	Apr-02-2013
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For	It is quite evident that criminals have the advantage of picking the time and place for their crimes and friends, campus police and municipal law enforcement cannot be everywhere at once. This Bill takes away that criminal advantage. I agree that there must be uncompromised quality firearms training along with psychological and medical background checks but our sons and daughters safety will forever be more important than the imposition this may present to those untrained few who would oppose such legislation.	Apr-02-2013
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For	I am one hundred percent IN FAVOR of this bill to allow female and male citizens to provide their own first line of defense against criminal and terrorist attacks. Gun-free zones on campuses, theaters, malls and other places where large groups gather have been proven to be unacceptable in modern society all over the world. Our Nevada Citizens, and especially our family members, deserve the rights to self protection guaranteed by our unique, US Constitution. I trust no member of the NV Legislature will fail to vote in favor of this vital update to our statutes!	Apr-02-2013
For	The common denominators in recent mass shootings have been psychotropic drugs, and GUN FREE ZONES. It is wrong to deny law abiding citizens the opportunity to defend themselves. Conceal carry serves as a deterrent to violent criminals even if no one is actually carrying. The right of self defense is one of our inalienable rights, and criminals ignore laws. Vote in favor of this bill.	Apr-02-2013
For	The common denominators in recent mass shootings have been psychotropic drugs and GUN FREE ZONES. It is wrong to prevent law abiding citizens the opportunity to defend themselves. Conceal carry serves as a deterrent against violent criminals, even if no one is actually carrying. The right of self defense is one of our inalienable rights, and criminals ignore laws. Vote in favor of this bill.	Apr-02-2013
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For	I believe this will hinder someone who is contemplating to do harm as they know someone else may have a gun and will stop them	Apr-02-2013
For	I urge all members to vote yes on this bill.	Apr-02-2013
For	Our need for security goes every where and if a person has gone through the proper training they should be able to defend themselves and others anywhere.	Apr-02-2013
For	Law Abiding Citizens have a 2nd Amendment Right to protect themselves. It's the criminals that need law enforcement measures imposed.	Apr-02-2013
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For	We're all still forgetting that criminals by nature do not follow laws, and that most if not all mass shootings have taken place in so called gun free zones. The right to defend oneself is a right that should never have been taken away in the first place!	Apr-02-2013
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Against	I often wonder if You people that are ELECTED to REPRESENT US have any IDEA of what that really means. Because as I look at the MAJORITY of these BILLS that are presented at each session I feel that YOU have NOBODIES interest at HEART but YOUR own,and to take away from LAW ABIDING CITIZENS of this STATE and COUNTRY!! This Bill should NOT even be heard as it is TARGETING LAW ABIDING Citizens,College Students as well as Bussiness Owners & CCW Holders. Finally it is NOT 2nd AMENDMENT Friendly it actually is TRYING to TAKE away from the 2nd Amendment, PLEASE VOTE AGAINST THIS BILL	Apr-02-2013
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For	This is just common sense.	Apr-02-2013
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For	Law abiding citizens need to be able to protect themselves. NO amount of "safe zones" will do any good to a victim because criminals don't follow the laws.	Apr-01-2013
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For	We need our citizens who have a concealed carry permit to be able to carry their guns on our college campuses to protect themselves and possibly others; to deter events like those which have been witnessed at campuses where shootings have happened and citizens have been unarmed and unable to protect anyone.	Apr-01-2013
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For	If a person can be trusted with a CCW, than that right to carry should not cease to exist on NSHE campuses. Sadly, it has already been demonstrated that AB362 is needed. We should not keep on insisting that women, and men too, become defenseless victims of rapists and other thugs.	Apr-01-2013
For	This option is important in converting so-called weapons free zones from what are actually free-fire zones into areas of equal safety to the street and other public places.	Apr-01-2013
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For	If passed, this Act will be a great triumph for human freedom and public safety in Nevada.	Apr-01-2013
For	Our law enforcement folks cannot be everywhere, or; there when we need them NOW. If the legally armed citizens are on campus/school grounds and it was known, (not who) that armed citizens may be present at any given time, the bad guys/girls may think twice. Certainly an on site unknown deterrent is better than waiting for help. Properly trained and legal CCW authorized individuals are are a must.	Apr-01-2013
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For	This bill gets rid of "Gun Free Zones" on the property of the Nevada State Higher Education System. The "Gun Free Zone" is the single largest reason there are mass shootings. Every mass shooting except 1 has occurred in a "Gun Free Zone". In every case if a Concealed Carry permit holder or holders had been present the shootings and carnage would have been reduced or eliminated. Concealed carry permit holders have a fantastic firearms safety record and in many cases are safer than Police Officers. Concealed carry will make the campuses of the Nevada State Higher Education System safer. Amanda Collins has testified to that.	Apr-01-2013
For	Ask yourself why so many crazed lunatics choose school campuses for their massacres...it's because they know that school campuses are 'soft targets' meaning nobody will return fire and the campus police are usually minutes away. Sometimes many minutes. How many students will die during those minutes? One of them might be your son or daughter. Lets end the carnage right now and put the fear of uncertainty in the minds of future killers. Once this bill passes, Nevada college campuses will no longer be 'soft targets.' The element of doubt in the mind of a killer is indeed a great deterent.	Apr-01-2013
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For	A gun is a tool. It takes a person to wield it.	Apr-01-2013
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For	I am for this Bill. This must pass for the safety of our kids. One rape is one to many. This will make our college campuses a safe place for our young adults to get their education. Gun free zones are great places for criminals to pray on the innocent. Give the qualified people a chance to defend themselves because law enforcement can't be everywhere all the time.	Apr-01-2013
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For	Good guys are responsible with guns, and the bad guys need to know that their "bad intentions" may have serious considerations, because of a good, logical bill like AB143. Lets not give ignorant "cowards" the upper hand...EVER!	Apr-01-2013
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For	As registered Republican and NRA Member I support any and all legislation that supports my rightful use or position of firearms.	Apr-01-2013
For	I strongly support AB 143 and AB 195!!	Apr-01-2013
For	I am for this bill. It makes sence for CCW holders to carry on campus if they have permission.	Apr-01-2013
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For	A deterent to violent crimes against women would be the possibility that the intended victim might just be able to defend herself!	Apr-01-2013
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Against	We've got enough whacked out people in this state--the last thing we need is goofballs, under the influence (like at least 75% of college kids, packing heat--just about as sane as allowing a drunk out of a casino so he/she can go out and kill someone with their car.	Apr-01-2013
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For	Every american has the right to defend his or herself. If an 18 year old is old enough to vote, he or she is certainly mature enough to carry a firearm. Common sense says this bill should easily pass.	Apr-01-2013
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For	This is a common sense bill that allows honest law abiding citizens to protect themselves on campus. These are adult students and responsible people. There are not enough police to protect all students, all the time.	Apr-01-2013
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For	It is time for all people to be allowed to defend themselves from criminal activity. A rapist, murderer, or burglar will think twice if confronted with deadly force but only if the person opposing them are able to confront them. People in government, school admin, or police should not be the deciding factor of weather a Nevada resident lives or dies.	Apr-01-2013
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For	We need this bill to pass so people on acmpus will have the right to protect themselves.	Apr-01-2013
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For	The citizens of this country are entitled to the right to protect themselves. Please defend that right.	Apr-01-2013
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For	It is important that all people, not only students in college, be able to defend themselves. I have heard testimony of a young woman who was raped on the college campus in Reno, NV, only a few feet away from the security office. She was abiding by the law, and not carrying her gun, thus not able to defend herself. Please support this bill - don't assume that you can decided how someone can defend themselves. Also, keep in mind that to deny this is to deny one's 2nd Amendment right.	Apr-01-2013
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For	How many more college girls have to be raped and murdered, and how many more teachers must dive under a desk to avoid a hail of bullets, before the gods in the legislature allow them to defend themselves?	Apr-01-2013
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For	Please stop making students easy targets. Either let concealed carry happen on campus or make it mandatory every security officer on every campus is armed. We have no protection at NSC. Pass Concealed carry on NSHE campuses.	Apr-01-2013
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For	Why shouldn't college or university students be allowed to protect them selves at their place of learning. The educational system can not provid protection for them. Just like all the Clark County High Schools have metal detectors at every High School, but only put them in service on test days. Yet our children lay dead or mamed for life. How do we justify not using the detectors every day. If it's a money issue, how do we place a value on our daughters or son's. How can we sleep knowing we could save lives but choose not to because of something that's more important to pay for!	Apr-01-2013
For	I support campus carry for individuals who have a CCW permit.	Apr-01-2013
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For	Finally a bill to allow individuals their constitutional rights	Apr-01-2013
For	Yes. This is just common sense. Right now, college campuses are gun free zones; an open invitation for any mass killer. Remember! When seconds count, the police are minutes away.	Apr-01-2013
For	Thank you for your help and fighting stance for this!	Apr-01-2013
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For	I strongly support this bill. This should have been the law of the land years ago and it would have helped protect Amanda Collins and perhaps Brianna Denison. My only concern/question: Does this allow members of the general public, who are not enrolled students, but are attending an event such as a concert at Nightingale Hall, to carry without permission from the principal. The summary I read is confusing. I want anyone who has a CCW to be able to carry on high school and college campuses and I strongly support the right of teachers and principals with CCW and additional regular training to carry concealed. And they should be paid a small bonus (e.g. 4%)monthly if they carry. They should also be paid for the additional training time and be reimbursed for ammunition used during these additional training sessions. No one but the individual needs to know who is and who isn't carrying. The element of surprise for a bad guy is a deterrent in and of itself.	Apr-01-2013
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For	Normal, law abiding citizens should be able to defend themselves and others from random acts of murder by psychopaths. If there had been one normal adult with a weapon, the Newtown, CT shooting would have ended with many fewer victims.	Apr-01-2013
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For	US Congressional Democrats are all but saying to rape victims, "lay back and enjoy it." My thought is, 'If a lady is legally carrying she should resist by any and all means necessary!' If AB143 is enacted the issue will be resolved!	Apr-01-2013
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For	I support legal carrying of firearms in all locations as a proven means of first response to deadly force.	Apr-01-2013
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For	I support this bill	Apr-01-2013
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For	Vote YES on AB 143 Support Campus Carry and allow lawful self-defense on higher-education property	Apr-01-2013
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For	I am for Any addition to concealed carry laws.	Apr-01-2013
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For	Our Rights should not end at a DOORWAY .	Apr-01-2013
For	Legal CCW citizens have proven their ability to conduct themselves safely anywhere.	Apr-01-2013
For	What is the difference between legally carrying a weapon on the streets of Reno and on the walkways of UNR? Nothing! This is a bad bill!	Apr-01-2013
For	Although I've never owned a gun, I believe it is our right to own one. Places that are known as "no gun zones" are easy targets for people who wish to do harm and don't care whether or not they are following the law. Let's even up the playing field. Please vote yes for this bill.	Apr-01-2013
For	I learned a long time ago the time you don't carry is the time you will need it the most.	Apr-01-2013
For	Open carry should also be allowed on campus.	Apr-01-2013
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For	I respectively ask that you Support AB143 Campus Carry for individuals who have a CCW permit. Protect our children and young people.	Apr-01-2013
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For	I support this.	Apr-01-2013
For	Major, USAF, NC, Ret.	Apr-01-2013
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For	"Gun Free Zones" do Not work. Please Allow those who are trained and have a CCW to protect themselves and others. Criminals Do Not follow the law and carry anywhere they want to. Thank You.	Apr-01-2013
For	I encourage passage of this bill. Police can not be everywhere, they prefer PRO-active to prevent crime, but become RE-active after a crime occurs. Citizens must be able protect themselves with appropriate training.	Apr-01-2013
For	What stops the derranged crazy once they start their shooting rampage? A gun! With 'victim disarmament', i.e. none of the victims can carry a gun, this means waiting until the police arrive. In venues where a responsible gun owner had been allowed to carry his protection and shoot the bad guy, the numbers killed and injured are significantly less. This is one of the few proposed laws that will actually reduce the number of gun deaths by deranged crazies. Why would we have places where only crazies carry a gun but we make sure victims are disarmed (only law abiding citizens honor a 'no guns allowed' sign?	Apr-01-2013
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For	Our world is not getting safer and we need to be able to protect ourselves in any situation. The UNLV campus is very near to a known drug area and we are targets of drug crazed persons who have no respect for a "Gun Free Zone". Pass AB143	Apr-01-2013
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For	I support the passage of AB143 so that our Nevada students can protect themselves against predators.	Apr-01-2013
For	Absolutely the right thing to do. If you want to protect the public, then put the armed, trained and licensed public between innocent victims and lunatic murderers. Stop the insane practice of keeping decent citizens in a position of haing to rely on a few security personnel being in the right place at the right time, which history tells us never happens. Murderers are oddly ALWAYS less likely to kill innocent people when they realize their plans might be thwarted immediately by armed CCW permit holders. They want to kill first, to make their statement, and then kill themselves afterward to complete the act. Risking being killed before they are able to kill innocent victims is not their visa of the world-- it is not how they want the plan to unfold.	Apr-01-2013
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For	Vote YES on AB 143 Support Campus Carry and allow lawful self-defense on higher-education property	Apr-01-2013
For	I urge everyone to vote YES on AB 143 to support Campus Carry and allow lawful self-defense on higher-education property	Apr-01-2013
For	Common sense, allow possible victime to have the ability to protect themselves if needed. Don't underestimate those in higher education as not being responsible, they are our future and entitled to self protection, especially while learning their future course.	Apr-01-2013
Against	Guns everywhere is NOT the answer. I am vehemently opposed to this and other expanded concealed weapons expansion. I would prefer legislation banning the sale of multiple round ammunition and background checks and registration of all guns. That way, if someone is stopped with an illegal gun, there are grounds for arrest.	Apr-01-2013
For	When gunmen strike schools or public spaces, they inflict the most fatality win seconds. Sandy Hook was over in five minutes, long before emergency responders can arrive. This sensible bill would empower campus staff to minimize fatalities and deter attacks.	Apr-01-2013
For	It seems to make that the best way to protect responsible, law-abiding citizens is to allow them to protect themselves.	Apr-01-2013
For	It is high time for legislators to admit, that making certain zones in our public environment GUN FREE is an invitation for those not satisfied with their life, or who want to go down in history by attaching their name to a "heinous crime that will be recorded for history". Time is ripe for more critical thinking. As Wayne La Pierre and others have said, and should be readily apparent from the numerous cases in the past, gun violence on gun-restricted regions only then end, when guns are brought to these "Gun Free Zones" by either law enforcement, or licensed citizens risking their own life to defend others, or, as in the recent Portland Mall shooting, they only show their own gun. And there are many indications violence was enabled because licensed private persons were prevented from carrying their weapons on site, where gun violence continued because licensed carry persons left their weapons outside such property where a criminal tried to make a name for him / her self. Please terminate the forced exposure of peaceful citizens to killers trying yo make a name for themselves. Please vote YES on AB143	Apr-01-2013
For	It only makes sense to support this Legislation.	Apr-01-2013
For	Our campuses will be safer if legally authorized staff and students are allows to carry concealed weapons on campus. This will make the potential perpetrators think twice before trying to kill or injure people, and will make it easier to stop them as soon as possible to minimize loss of lives.	Apr-01-2013
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For	We should not have to 'ask' to be allowed our 2nd admendment rights!	Apr-01-2013
For	We should be allowed to protect ourselves and our children	Apr-01-2013
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For	Allowing remastered, trained, CCW permitted individuals to carry on college campuses is a no brainier. They could just be the ones to not get mugged or raped. Please Pass this legislation.	Apr-01-2013
For	Do we really need this legislation?	Apr-01-2013
For	Responsible citizens know that Gun Free Zone is unconsitutional as it prevents the assurance of keeping life. Criminals will never disarm in a gun free zone, so making law abiding citizens do so is depriving them of their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.	Apr-01-2013
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For	yes i agree all americans have the right to protect themselves even our young students in college an armed teachers in 1-12	Apr-01-2013
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For	Please do the right thing. So that our students are able to protect them self. Thanks for your support.RWL	Apr-01-2013
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For	It is immoral to prohibit people from legally protecting themselves from those that don't care about laws!	Apr-01-2013
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For	Having our campuses a gun free zone for law abiding citizens who have met all the criteria of the State of Nevada is not in keeping with the concept of providing a "safe" environment for our students. It has been proven at many campuses that a "gun free zone" on campus provides an ideal setting for the illegal activities of individuals that want to take advantage of an unarmed citizenship.	Apr-01-2013
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For	We can only REALLY depend on ourselves for protection. Passage of this bill will make those intent on harming others aware of possible consequences of their actions. Maybe they will think twice before attacking someone. Statistics show that when citizens are legally armed, crime decreases.	Apr-01-2013
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For	The bad guys will bring a gun on campus whether or not there is a law against it. The only way to make law-abiding citizens safe is to allow them to have equal force to defend themselves if someone out to injure them is present.	Apr-01-2013
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For	keep guns in hands of law abiding citizens...and out of criminals hands.	Apr-01-2013
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For	Yes, let us be the first state to make it mandatory for all citizens to go to gun safety school and then carry a weapon. Switzerland does this and there was NOT ONE MURDER last year in Switzerland . The reason:All citizens have concealed carry.	Apr-01-2013
For	I ama partially disabled (70%) combat veteran, a retired State official having served 30 years in a number of appointed positions and former UNR and Sierra Nevda College Professor. I thank you for your support of allowing citizens to carry firearms. Dr. James P. Hawke Ph.D.	Apr-01-2013
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For	People should be able to defend themselves as they see fit. No one has anything to fear from a law abiding gun owner.	Apr-01-2013
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For	This can and is a matter of life and death. It is nearly inconceivable that anyone would be against this measure.	Apr-01-2013
For	Dear NV Legislators, If CCW had been available at Newtown, America would NOT be in the gun-control diatribe we find ourselves. Think about it. And when AB-143 is passed, the likelihood of a Newtown redux' in Nevada will have been exponentially reduced. Plz PASS AB-143!	Apr-01-2013
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For	It is every citizens right to protect their life. When you don't let people carry on campus, they cannot protect against criminals who will carry a gun where they are not supposed to.	Apr-01-2013
For	I am a UNLV student and I fully support this bill.	Apr-01-2013
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For	We need your help.	Apr-01-2013
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For	"We The People" Strongly Support This Bill	Mar-31-2013
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For	May help prevent crimes on campus. A law like this could have been used at Virginia Tech and other colleges to prevent massacres.	Mar-31-2013
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For	This will stop violent crimes on school campuses. A criminal would think twice before harming individuals of he thought that person or others around could be armed with a self defense device other than pepper spray. Criminals already have firearms on our campuses anyways.	Mar-31-2013
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For	Dear Assemblymen/Assemblywomen: I ask you to support the AB 143 Campus Carry and allow lawful self-defense on higher-education property. This bill, will allow good law abiding people the freedom to have with them a tool to defend their persons and to protect themselves and others should the need to arise, in and previously advertised defenseless area. This will deter the criminally inclined; to not target areas where they know the victims are required to be defenseless. I urge you to Support AB 143. Sincerely, Darin McDoniel	Mar-31-2013
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For	I am president of the Nevada Wildlife Federation, Inc. (NvWF) the oldest statewide non-profit conservation organization dedicated to sustaining Nevada's natural resources for wildlife through conservation, preservation, and education. Officers and workers are all volunteers and are not paid for their service to the organization. We are an affiliate of the National Wildlife Federation with over 4 million members. We support AB 143 Thank you, Robert Gaudet	Mar-31-2013
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For	1st - Lawful concealed firearms permittees have passed local, state and federal criminal records checks; have passed an NV State specified formal class on the legal use and carry of concealed firearms, the lawful use of lethal force; practical exams demonstrating competence in gun handling and firing for the firearms authorized; have taken the time, expended the effort and expended the personal resources necessary to successfully complete and execute all the above. Students, educators and staff authorized to attend classes, work, live or attend events on Nevada System of Higher Education property and who have a current NV State concealed carry license/permit should be allowed to practice concealed carry in accordance with NV laws and Nevada System of Higher Education reasonable requirements. If Nevada System of Higher Education officials want to require the campus registration of those with CCW permits and the specific firearms held in living quarters for those living aboard campus I think that's reasonable, but that information must be confidential and not available to any, media on or off campus, student, faculty, staff or persons other than campus police. No authorization to enter on campus living quarters or classrooms for campus police should be granted outside of those already authorized without the proper legal warrants issued by proper civilian authority. In short, CCW holders must be held to the highest standards consistent with NV State laws and so must Nevada System of Higher Education officials, employees and police. The object is to allow CCW permittees the right to self defense and defense of others consistent within the established law.	Mar-31-2013
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For	Creating more gun free zones invites disasters such as Newtown. It also creates an extra burden on the CCW holder to safely store their weapon while visiting a campus.	Mar-31-2013
For	Avoid another Sandy Hook tragedy. One person is no match against several people. Teachers should consider getting a conceal permit as well.	Mar-31-2013
For	Gun free zones are open season zones	Mar-31-2013
For	I support this bill especially for female college students. College campuses are perfect place for predators because they are currently "gun free zones" making it easier for them. Despite what idiotic comment CO state senator Evie Hudak made, a criminal knowing that someone may and is permitted to carry he will think twice before committing a crime. Don't believe me, then why does AZ with very gun friendly laws have less gun related crime than Chicago, Obama's model for gun control?	Mar-31-2013
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For	Vote YES on AB 143 Support Campus Carry and allow lawful self-defense on higher-education property	Mar-31-2013
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For	This bill will make the campus safer. Anybody who can pass a background check to own a firearm and get a concealed weapon permit is unlikely to misuse it. I was already a senior citizen when I taught an adjunct course at UNLV; that required me to walk across the campus after class, at 10 p.m., alone and unarmed. I would not have been unarmed but for the current law. The risk of being an unarmed target was why I quit teaching.	Mar-30-2013
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For	No comments offered.	Mar-30-2013
For	It is about time! This is a very good bill. It makes so much sense in light of the murderous rampages of recent years that have occurred in "gun free zones," such as schools. Our gun laws must leave us free to exercise and enjoy-to the fullest-our Second Amendment rights; protect us from, and severely punish, gun-use-criminals; and prevent the deranged and mentally ill from obtaining guns by identifying, helping and monitoring them.	Mar-30-2013
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For	I am in favor of any legislation that would move toward eliminating 'gun-free zones' which have proven in the past to be places that deranged persons tend to choose, knowing they will meet no resistance in the commission of their crime. Obviously, a person bent on mayhem would not care about breaking a law prohibiting firearms in certain location.	Mar-29-2013
For	Just remember Brianna Dennison's death potentially could have been prevented if CCW permit holders were allowed to carry on campus.	Mar-29-2013
For	How many more college girls have to be raped and murdered, how many more teachers must dive in front of a hail of bullets, before the gods in the legislature allow them to defend themselves?	Mar-29-2013
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For	what do you mean "under certain circumstances" if a background check has been established by the proprietory sheriff's office why put conditions on the subject.	Mar-26-2013
For	We need to get away from "writen perrmision". I carry concealed and do not belive I need to dissarm to drop off or pick up my child from school. Why do I need to be dissarmed for an extended peroid of time for a one minute stop.	Mar-25-2013
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For	This bill is needed for the protection of students and faculty. Criminal activity occurs regularly on campus, and this bill can make all the difference to those who would be victimized. Gun Free Zones leave criminals armed while disarming their victims.	Mar-25-2013
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For	The Second Amendment "America's original Homeland Security". The Right to Keep and Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed.	Mar-25-2013
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For	I support this legislation.	Mar-24-2013
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For	Time to allow self defense. I remember Michelle Mitchel, abducted from UNR and murdered across the street from the SAE fraternity. Amanda Collins and other women raped on UNR campus. How much longer are we going to mandate that only predators are armed.	Mar-23-2013
For	I support	Mar-23-2013
For	Absolutely support	Mar-23-2013
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For	.............because you don't bring a text book to a gunfight.	Mar-23-2013
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For	Gun free zones don't work. Allow legal, law abiding gun owners to carry everywhere.	Mar-21-2013
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For	It's time to end Defense-Free Zones and let law-abiding faculty, staff, students, and visitors to NSHE campuses defend themselves. You shouldn't have to wait until you've already been raped before you get super-secret, tell anybody and we'll take it away, discretionary permission to concealed carry...	Mar-21-2013
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For	I am for this bill because I believe it is a start in the right direction. I believe this should be expanded to include all public buildings. My children have gone through the CCSD & two of my sisters are teachers. I am a firm believer that the average, competent person with a CCW permit is always going to be the first responder to a threatening situation and should not be deterred from being able to take action.	Mar-21-2013
For	The People NEED to be able to Exercise Our RIGHTS to defend Ourselves on NV System of Higher Education campuses.	Mar-21-2013
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For	makes comon sense......	Mar-21-2013
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For	The prohibition on campus carry leaves many defenseless in a place frequented by predators. People who are vetted in the way CCW holders are, represent no threat to anyone but criminals and should be permitted to carry whole on school property. Furthermore, university campuses typically extend well beyond educational buildings. Someone legally carrying on one city block may be in violation of the law unwittingly by just walking a block to an area considered part of university property. This bill would help law abiding citizens avoid that predicament.	Mar-21-2013
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For	please support this bill, self defense should not be something we take away from people when they enter a school zone!	Mar-21-2013
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For	Permit holders should be allowed to defend themselves whether on campus or not.	Mar-20-2013
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For	Thank you, this makes perfect sense!	Mar-19-2013
For	A student with a CCW should be able to defend him or herself in educational settings.	Mar-19-2013
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For	It's not the gun I am worried about, it's the person lurking in the dark who is stalking you to rob or rape you. A gun would scare that person away.	Mar-18-2013
For	As a CCW instructor I see that people are getting their permits becasue they understand their is a real need to take responsability for their own safety. In our course we teach safe handling, safe attitude, ethics where the law is broad )not "when can I shoot", but "when do I have no choice but to shoot because my life is in real dnager".	Mar-18-2013
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For	YES! YES! YES! Students and State Education employees should be able to defend themselves in the event of a campus shooting. If someone other than the shooter has a weapon the number of wounded or fatalities could be reduced. Also, a shooter might change his/her mind about causing trouble on a campus if he/she knows others have weapons.	Mar-15-2013
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For	I support...Great Bill, Please Pass.	Mar-15-2013
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For	Law abiding citizens should have the right to act in self-defense on campuses of higher learning.	Mar-15-2013
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For	Utah allows concealed carry on any school, college or university that accepts public funding. California allows concealed carry on school grounds in accordance with CA Penal Code 626.9(l). I don't recall any incidences involving concealed carry with either of these two bordering states. Why does our state government think that we (Nevada citizens)can not be trusted to act responsibly on school property?	Mar-15-2013
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For	Students and others on campus should be allowed to defend themselves. The police cannot always be there to prevent crime.	Mar-14-2013
For	I'm for the authorization of persons who hold permits to carry concealed firearms on the property of the Nevada system of higher education it will reduce sexual assaults on campus.	Mar-14-2013
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For	Criminals carry concealed on Universities, Colleges and High Schools. Why can't law abiding citizens who've gone through and passed Nevada's CCW certificates be able to protect themselves. It's ridiculous to prevent law abiding citizens from protecting themselves.	Mar-14-2013
For	Looks good provided it allows student to defend themselves YES!	Mar-14-2013
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For	I believe that this should also state for K-12 schools also, this is how we can keep our children Safe, How many Parents are in these schools during the Day that if they were Carring they could have helped to stop some of these shootings.	Mar-14-2013
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For	My wife has a CCW permit yet cannot carry when she attends college classses at night. There is no reason carrying on a college campus should be different than anywhere else.	Mar-14-2013
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For	I am so glad to see a bill where college students would be able to protect themselves. Just the law in place will deter would-be assailants.	Mar-13-2013
For		Mar-13-2013
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For	Nobody should be rendered defenseless to obtain a higher level of education.	Mar-13-2013
For		Mar-13-2013
For	I support this legislation, as long as the availability of ammunition is restored (can't do much range practice without it). And, I hope that the cost of obtaining a CCW permit and proper training does not put it out of financial reach for the average citizen. Training information is extremely valuable. I would not feel comfortable using or carrying a firearm without it.	Mar-13-2013
For		Mar-13-2013
For	Absolutely FOR! Evil is pervasive and until we fix evil, which will never happen, we need to protect ourselves. Not everyone can afford a private bodyguard. It is a right and a duty to protect ourselves and this right should not ever be limited by what building we walk into!	Mar-13-2013
For		Mar-13-2013
For		Mar-12-2013
For	It is about time that students should be able to defend themselves on NSHE campuses. This should extend to any public or private school.	Mar-12-2013
For	This wil allow permit holders to defend themselves on campuses from people committing crimes.	Mar-12-2013
For		Mar-12-2013
For		Mar-12-2013
For		Mar-12-2013
For	More CCW holders = less crime	Mar-12-2013
For		Mar-12-2013
For	Laws prohibiting the carry of a firearm only affects those concerned with the law in the first place. If a person has decided to harm others on a college campus I don't believe they will elect to leave their firearm at home because it is prohibited. Law abiding persons should be allowed to have their firearm with them on campus.	Mar-12-2013
For	Stop allowing "Gun Free Zones" that get law abiding people killed. Allow lawful concealed carry on college campuses across Nevada!	Mar-12-2013
For		Mar-12-2013
For		Mar-12-2013
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For	I'm 100% FOR carrying on campus. The women attacked by James Biela who killed Brianna Zunino Denison in 2008 would have been stopped by a couple of women ON CAMPUS if they were allowed to carry their CCW issued firearm.	Mar-12-2013
For		Mar-12-2013
For		Mar-12-2013
For	So-called Gun-Free Zones are simply invitations for criminal activity because the criminal don't have to fear an armed response from law-abiding citizens.	Mar-12-2013
For		Mar-12-2013
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For	Great bill, NV needs to protect our children.	Mar-12-2013
For	This only makes sense, as most of us know that most mass killings and assaults takes place in a gun free zone. As it has already been stated, it takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun. Good law abiding citizens needs that ability to defend them selves as we all know that help will never be there in time to stop an act of violence. It is the responsibility of the individual to protect themselves.	Mar-11-2013
For		Mar-11-2013
For	As a CCW permit holder and a University of Nevada employee, I fully support this bill.	Mar-11-2013
For		Mar-11-2013
For	As loing as the training is sufficient and the background check is completed	Mar-11-2013
For		Mar-10-2013
For	There is no reason not to allow this to pass/	Mar-10-2013
For	As an instructor for "higher education" (I worry about this designation!), I am absolutely FOR allowing CCW on the campus. Law abiding citizens obey the law. This would deter criminal activity on campuses.	Mar-10-2013
For	Passage of this bill will ensure our rights under the 2nd amendment are not further infringed.	Mar-10-2013
For		Mar-09-2013
For		Mar-09-2013
For	People who have submitted to an FBI background check and can carry concealed handguns in Nevada should be able to do so on property of the Nevada System of Higher Education. Women especially should not be disarmed just because they cross an imaginary line onto a college campus. My wife is a student at TMCC and should be allowed to carry a concealed firearm for self-defense.	Mar-08-2013
For	A common sense bill that would allow adults to protect themselves on college campuses. I support this bill unreservedly.	Mar-08-2013
For		Mar-08-2013
For		Mar-08-2013
For		Mar-08-2013
For	Young people should not have their rights removed because they are going to school to better themselves.	Mar-08-2013
For	This is a great step to allow us to defend ourselves and to eliminate gun free zones.	Mar-08-2013
For		Mar-08-2013
For	A very resnsonable and responsible approach	Mar-08-2013
For		Mar-08-2013
For		Mar-07-2013
For	I am a law abiding student on the path towards the progression of our community through self improvement & education. I understand criminals look for easy victims to perpetuate crime; gun free zones are a guarantee to the criminal that we are easy victims. We, as a law abiding people, are not the ones that should be upheld to scrutiny or demonization, it is the malevolent individuals that enjoy free reign without regard for the law that should not enjoy the guarantee their target is defenseless. Mass shootings have proven to occur in gun free zones, I do not feel safe as a constituent, student, American, walking into one. I am vulnerable, and the criminal knows this.	Mar-06-2013
For	I am strongly for the provisions in this bill that allow for concealed carry on NSHE property. Just ask Amanda Collins how important this is.	Mar-06-2013
For	Right On! Concealed carry will make our students safer.	Mar-06-2013
For		Mar-06-2013
For	I support AB143 and carrying concealed on campus because carrying a campus police officer is just too heavy and too much work.	Mar-06-2013
For	If you hold a current and valid carry permit you should be allowed to carry on college campuses. By making campuses gun free zones and posting it you have basically told criminals that they do not have to worry about a possible target being able to protect themselves. The gun is the most effective equalizer, it makes a 100 pound female student able to defend herself against a 250 pound male student.	Mar-05-2013
For		Mar-05-2013
For	I support the passage of this bill to clarify and strenghten the laws related to concealed firearms.	Mar-05-2013
For		Mar-05-2013
For		Mar-05-2013
For		Mar-05-2013
For	I am concerned for the safety of our young people. Please support this bill. People with CCW permits should be allowed to carry on the Nevada System of Higher Education.	Mar-05-2013
For	I am strongly in favor of this bill! I believe this bill would prevent a mass shooting on Nevada's campus's. My daughter would be allowed to protect herself with lethal force, or the threat of lethal force, should the need arise.	Mar-05-2013
For		Mar-05-2013
For	Approval of this bill would make our children safer since they would no longer be subjected to some brutal attack in what is currently a "gun free" zone. But only to law abiding citizens. Not criminals.	Mar-05-2013
For		Mar-04-2013
For		Mar-04-2013
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For	Please support	Mar-04-2013
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For		Mar-04-2013
For	I favor this to promote the right of self protection.	Mar-04-2013
For	To many Houses of Learning are set up as Gun Free Zones. When was the last time a School where firearms were allowed hit by some Idiot with a gun of their own or one that was stolen? I know of none.	Mar-04-2013
For	It is well established that the mere probability that a potential victim might be armed is the best deterent to crime. James Beila may well have been deterred from his assaults and the murder of Brianna Dennison.	Mar-03-2013
For	Stop being victims.	Mar-03-2013
For		Mar-01-2013
For	Another step forward in making college campuses safer.	Feb-28-2013
For	Other states have successfully implemented laws like this. Time for us to follow their lead. For example our good neighbors in Utah. This law will make our society safer.	Feb-28-2013
For		Feb-28-2013
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Against	While states like Colorado move forward with reasonable gun restrictions, Navada seems to be moving back to the days of the old frontier where everyone carries a gun and the fastest draw wins.	Feb-28-2013
For	As a Nevada resident and a college student, I ask that you please vote in favor of this bill.	Feb-27-2013
For	College campuses has become a safe haven for those who wish to commit acts of mayhem against unarmed persons. Taking away the assurance that everyone is unarmed on campus would go a long way towards making our campuses safer for everyone. This bill should pass without amendment.	Feb-27-2013
For		Feb-27-2013
For	People who obtain permits are law abiding. These people, having been properly trained according to law & thus licensed, should not be restrained from where they are allowed to legally carry a concealed handgun.	Feb-26-2013
For		Feb-26-2013
For	The way to stop armed violence on campus is to let law abiding responsible citizens to obtain and use concealed carry permits on campus.	Feb-26-2013
For		Feb-26-2013
For		Feb-26-2013
Against	Unless you are carrying the gun in your hand, how will you get it out before being attacked? Then what? I can foresee someone pointing his gun at a bad guy and someone thinking he's the bad guy and shooting him -- a domino effect. This is a bad idea.	Feb-25-2013
For	Citizens with valid CCW permits should not have to abandon their constitutionally guaranteed right to self protection simply because they are on NSHE grounds. This bill is not about "students packing heat." It is about adults being allowed to take prudent steps to protect their own lives.	Feb-24-2013
For	We need to start thinking realistically about this. People confuse GUNS with violence. Not all guns are for violence. I am a mom of 3 and I conceal carry and hope to God I never have to use it. But, I am trained and prepared should I need to. I contend that I'm more scared, ON A DAILY BASIS, of the people driving in Las vegas; those who are allowed to be in charge of a motor vehicle while using drugs, abusing alcohol, driving while in fits of anger, driving while under various medical conditions or mental condition....all of which can, and often does, kill people, and furthermore, can be used as a weapon.	Feb-24-2013
For		Feb-24-2013
For		Feb-24-2013
For	Passage of this bill is a necessity for the safety of Nevadans. Crime does not stop at the grassy border to University property. The current law forces Law Abiding citizens to travel to and from these institutions without the protection that they have a right and choice to have with them. There is NO provision where citizens can eve secure their firearm in the trunk of a car while on University property. The argument that more guns do not make us safer is fine for those who do not understand that a criminal knows that less guns make him safer. Passage of this bill will allow citizens to carry the firearm that may save their life 10 miles from the campus when they stop to get gas or groceries, as they will not be forced to leave it at home when going to school and then conducting the normal business of life after they leave the campus. Please pass this bill, if not for the safety of those on campus, but for safety to and from these institutions. A failure to pass this bill will eventually lead to a wrongful death claim for someone who is violated to or from a university, that could not protect themselves, as carrying a weapon while driving to a campus would make them a criminal as soon as they cross the border of the campus, even if they left the firearm in their vehicle.	Feb-23-2013
Against	More guns do not make the public more safe.	Feb-23-2013
Against		Feb-22-2013
For		Feb-22-2013
For	Clearly there are not enough security guards on campus to protect everyone ans proved by the rapes that have taken place. People should be allowed to protect themselves.	Feb-22-2013
Against	There are a couple of problems with this one, You have to be 21 to get a CCW in Nevada. By requiring a CCW many adults, under 21 would still be without their right to self Defense. Also the sheriff does not assemble the criteria for CCW and safety classes, in 2007 the legislature put that in the hands of a non profit LLC called the Sheriffs and chiefs association. While I see that 2007 move as an impermissible delegation of the sovereign power of the state. it would most likely need to be struck or altered before allowing the State to get back into the regulation of firearms.	Feb-22-2013
For		Feb-22-2013
For	When I read our Constitution it is pretty darn clear. Shall not be infringed.	Feb-21-2013
For		Feb-21-2013
For	I am completely for this bill. It will finally create one less "Gun Free Zone," which has been the major targets of criminals in the past. I feel that the bill is very well written and has a very large potential to help decrease the immediate problem of mass of people without any immediate protection due to the "Gun Free Zone."	Feb-21-2013
Against	It's not safe to have concealed weapons on campus.	Feb-21-2013
For		Feb-21-2013
For		Feb-20-2013
For		Feb-20-2013
For	The rule of law does NOT work untiul after the crime has been committed. Only a foll would "wait" for trhe cops in todays world. Self protection in our current "liberated" society is a matter of survival.	Feb-20-2013
For		Feb-20-2013
For		Feb-20-2013
For	You should have the right to protect yourself no matter where you are.	Feb-20-2013
For	I strongly support campus carry. Utah allows campus carry. Thumbs way UP for Utah! Why can't Nevada join the common sense states? Every American citizen, including American students, are granted the Right to Bear Arms which also means the RIGHT TO RETURN FIRE on those who would try to kill them. If only this mindset would take hold, there would be no more Columbines or V-Techs or Newtowns.	Feb-20-2013
For	In order to further the ability of law abiding to act in their own self-defense and to end the infringement of a student's rights under the second amendment of the United States as well as their rights under article 1 section 11 of the Nevada Constitution, this bill must be passed.	Feb-19-2013
For		Feb-19-2013
For	This is Common Sense indeed. One bullet in the wrong hands is a terrible thing, but one bullet in the RIGHT hands can save, and has saved, and will continue to save lives.. After all I Carry a weapon because COPS are to heavy.	Feb-19-2013
For	This is common sense!	Feb-19-2013
For	I attend UNLV late into the night, and the Nevada State Constitution preserves the right to bare arms.	Feb-19-2013
Against		Feb-19-2013
Against	Gentlemen: I do not feel more guns means more safety and I hope Nevada will embrace stricter gun regulations. As more guns become accessible, I feel my rights are being violated. I definitely do not want to worry about who may or may not be carrying a weapon on a college campus. Thank you.	Feb-19-2013
For	Those who fear freedom invariably predict dire consequences whenever freedom is increased, and are always proven wrong. Neighboring Utah has recognized peoples' right to defend themselves, even if they happen top be on a college campus, for years, without incident. There is no evidence that this bill would have any negative consequences.	Feb-19-2013
For		Feb-19-2013
Against	This is a bad bill	Feb-19-2013
For		Feb-19-2013
For	Please pass this bill. I graduated from UNR and still go there for seminars. This is an important bill for self-defense. Persons with permits defending themselves are also the best chance we have against a massacre. If Amanda Collins was allowed to carry, Brianna Denison would probably still be alive.	Feb-19-2013
For	An individual even though on college grounds should be able to carry concealed firearms for protection.	Feb-19-2013
For		Feb-19-2013
For	As a retired senior citizen enrolled in NSHE evening/night classes I fully support this bill as it directly applies to my safety on campus.	Feb-19-2013
For		Feb-19-2013
For	Strongly support this bill. Very important to pass.	Feb-19-2013
For	IT IS EVERY HUMANS GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO SELF PRESERVATION/SELF PROTECTION, THIS IS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT NOT GRANTED, OR TO BE APPROVED BY MAN OR GOVERNMENTS. THIS RIGHT TO SELF DEFENSE IS VALID NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE, AND WITH RECENT SCHOOL SHOOTINGS IN SO CALLED "NO GUN ZONES" IT IS EVIDENT THAT WE NEED OUR COLLEGE STUDENTS TO HAVE A MEANS TO SELF DEFENSE AT COLLEGE. WHEN GOVT. REDUCES THE ABILITY TO SELF DEFENSE OR DENIES SELF DEFENSE THEN THE GOVT IS LIABLE FOR YOUR SAFETY, A GUARANTEE THEY CAN NOT COMMIT TO AND ONE THAT HAS LEAD TO DISASTER. PLEASE PASS THIS ALLOWING CONCEALED CARRY PERMIT HOLDERS TO CARRY WHILE ON CAMPUS.	Feb-19-2013
For	Having a wife who has a concealed carry permit, who also weighs merely 110 pounds, who is often ill from her UC and is unable to use physical force to protect herself, has no means of protection from a criminal who want to do her harm. Mace, or a tazer will not tame a 200+ man from doing what he wants to do. She is a law abiding citizen. An grade A student. She simply wants the right to protect herself from the deteriorating society we live, and does not wish to not have that right when on University grounds.	Feb-19-2013
For	I support people's right to defend themselves and think this should be passed ASAP.	Feb-19-2013
For	This is an idea whose time has come. The same people who carry everywhere else without a problem should be able to carry firearms on college campuses. 15 or states allow carrying on college campuses by people with concealed weapons and they don't have problems. Students should not be disarmed and left to the mercy of predators on campus, nor should they be forced to leave their firearm or other defense weapon at home due to being unable to have it even in their car on school grounds.	Feb-19-2013
For	When seconds count, the police are only minutes away..... The Right of Self Defense should NOT be compromised by the State. I urge support for this Bill.	Feb-19-2013
For		Feb-19-2013
For	I strongly urge you to pass this legislation to allow responsible citizens the ability to exercise their rights on NV colleges. As the parent of a student, I am forced to disarm despite being a licensed concealed carrier for nearly 20 years and certified firearm instructor. I requested permission and was denied because no specific threat to me exists. I'd be happy to share my letter and testimony at hearing.	Feb-19-2013
For	why exclude campuses for people with a current and legal permit?	Feb-19-2013
For	Laws, even when backed up by signs, don't stop simply do not stop bad people. A gunfight in a school would be a bad thing, but all we have now are massacres because only the bad guys bring the guns to school. Ignore the blatant anti-gun picture in the newspaper. No responsible gun owner (and CCW permitees have all taken a class) would carry a firearm in such an irresponsible manner. As it is now, IT IS LEGAL to carry at colleges, but only with permission from the school. So that means the University President can carry, and he can give permission for Ass. Horne to carry, and his other cronies, while denying permission to state-certified firearms (and firearms laws) instructors. It is time for the Legislature to regain the power to make this decision and remove it from the ignorant political administrators of the schools. BTW, Ass. Horne should be removing himself from this Legislative process. He has a conflict of interest as an adjunct professor at UNLV. He is bloodguilty for refusing the Assembly to even vote on this popular issue last session.	Feb-19-2013
For		Feb-18-2013
For		Feb-18-2013
For	As a UNLV graduate and a CCW-permit holder, I believe that responsible firearm-owning college attendees deserve the right to protect themselves, especially at a venue that is deemed 'gun-free'. As we have seen in the past, 'gun-free' zones do not work. These 'gun-free' zones are instead becoming the hot-spots for violent crimes. A person with ill-intent will not follow the law nor will they abide any 'gun-free' zone, this includes our Nevada college campuses. While attending UNLV as a student, I always wondered who would be there to protect me and my fellow classmates if the unthinkable happens and the campus was under attack by persons of mal-intent. I recognize that we do have college-police officers but there are simply too few of them to be everywhere at once. The closest police station is a few miles away which hinders the response time of our police to respond to a dangerous threat. It is not a situation I wish for myself or anyone for that matter to have to experience. But I think it can be prevented. I believe that passing AB143 will not only benefit CCW-permit holders, but also those who do not wish to exercise their right to conceal-carry. I believe that if a person of mal-intent knows that the student/teacher he or she may be targeting to hurt may possibly pose as a threat to his/her ill-intentions, that he or she will reconsider their actions. This type of 'gamble' could thereby prevent a violent crime from occurring. In 2010, this bill failed to pass. Since then we have been lucky. If living in Las Vegas has taught us one thing: luck doesn't last. Therefore, I believe that responsible CCW-permit holders should have the right to protect themselves within our campus walls via AB143.	Feb-18-2013
For		Feb-18-2013
For		Feb-18-2013
For	Gun Free Zones do not work. Criminals and those with evil intent will not follow the law. Permit holders who have undergone testing and background checks should not have to choose between disarmament or continued education.	Feb-18-2013
For		Feb-18-2013
For	Nevada citizens should not have to give up their God-given right to self-defense simply because they choose to enroll in college courses or attend a concert or a sporting event on a University-owned property.	Feb-18-2013
For	Criminals don't care if it's a gun free zone. Murder is already illegal.	Feb-18-2013
For	I urge our lawmakers to support AB143 and allow the lawful carry of firearms on the property of the Nevada System of Higher Education. Furthermore, lawmakers should be diligent and take all legal steps necessary to preclude underhanded tactics, like those used by Assemblyman Horne in the past. This bill is a step in the right direction, but I urge Nevada's lawmakers to look deeper and eliminate ALL instances of legislated "gun free zones" (without inappropriately infringing on the rights of property owners). In anticipation of the passing of SB137, I further urge the authors of AB143 to prepare a revision to ensure "constitutional carry" is lawful on the property of Nevada System of Higher Education facilities.	Feb-18-2013
For	As seen elsewhere, disarming people in the false hope that nothing bad will happen to them or that security will protect them is foolish. Allowing concealed carry on campuses will give criminals the message that they need to look elsewhere for victims.	Feb-18-2013
For	Every person has the right to defend themselves. Obviously, gun free zones have PROVEN to be killing zones for criminals. Most of who are on psyche drugs prescribed by their doctors. Who ever says that concealed carry does not stop a crime does not do their research. What part of the 2nd Amendment do you not understand. Why are Democrats hell bent for taking our rights away. They are the party of stealing rights from the people. Who voted for these people in the first place. By not allowing this, you are violating the Constitution.	Feb-18-2013
For	This bill needs to pass so women at college campuses have freedom of choice to defend themselves. Gun free zones never and will never keep students safe. When CCW prevents the next rape or murder at a college campus then this bill will be well worth it.	Feb-18-2013
For	Allowing legal concealed carry permit holders to carry on Nevada campuses of higher education is a great start. Reducing and removing gun free zones will make it possible for law abiding citizens to defend themselves.	Feb-18-2013
For	The existence of so-called "Gun Free Zones" is an invitation to crime since criminals know their victims will be unable to defend themselves. Concealed Carry permit holders have proven via background checks that they are trustworthy, responsible gun owners. CCW permittees should be able to be armed in the greatest possible number of venues.	Feb-18-2013
For	My right to defend myself with a firearm should not end where school property begins. People who are otherwise qualified to carry firearms should not be stopped from carrying or possessing a firearm on school property. University police chiefs and sheriffs who oppose this change in law fail to be truthful about their inability to provide personal security services to individuals, and they prefer to create a false sense of security on campus and in the community. The current situation in which I rely on the judgment of a university president (with an irrational fear and opposition to weapons) to authorize the possession of firearms on school property is ridiculous. Personal protection is an individual responsibility, and Nevadans need the ability to choose to be responsible for their safety on school property.	Feb-18-2013
For	This bill is vital to the security of students attending our universities. The second amendment secures our God given right to protect ourselves and it shall not be infringed. It does not stipulate that the right to bear arms is moot on a college campus or anywhere else. The passage of this bill will cause the crime rate at universities to plummet as there is no greater deterrent to crime than an armed citizen. VOTE YES ON AB143!!	Feb-18-2013
For	This bill makes students safe in a learning enviroment	Feb-18-2013
For	The need for self defense does not end at an invisible border like the one separating NVSHE property from its surroundings. The State of Nevada trusts me to lawfully and responsibly carry the tools necessary for adequate self defense almost everywhere else in the state, but somehow believes that property owned by the NVSHE possesses magical powers which invalidate my ability to act responsibly. A criminal who has the intent to rob, rape, or otherwise harm students is in no way discouraged by a law that prevents them from carrying weapons on a campus. They are already planning to break the laws. This legislation will only make it feasible for the lawful student to defend against such acts.	Feb-18-2013
For	I disagree with making it a misdemeanor to conceal carry while at an event that can host one thousand people or more, but the overall bill is a step in the right direction. The people who may oppose this bill haven't studied the facts that CCW holders are less likely to be victims of crime or aggressors in criminal acts. Basing law on fact rather than emotional fear is always a good thing. I would encourage the State Assembly to recognize that existing law makes it illegal for good and law abiding citizens from even stepping foot on higher education properties. Effectively each college campus is a zone of potential defenseless people. It is unacceptable that even after James Biela proved this statement as FACT, the State assembly has not fixed the problem and allowed lawful and background-checked citizens the right to self defense on a campus!	Feb-18-2013
For	As a female college student who frequently takes night and weekend classes I feel as though I should be able to protect myself on campus. With all of the recent attacks and attempted attacks on and around the UNR campus, I honestly find myself in fear as I walk, often times, the long distance to and from classes in the dark. While there has absolutely been an increase in security personnel since I started at UNR five years ago, it would be naive to think that these officers can be everywhere at the same time, or even respond in time to an emergency when an individual's life is in danger. Should a person be responsible enough to legally buy a firearm, and test and obtain a concealed carry permit, I believe that they are also they type of person who is responsible enough to ensure that they are confident and trained in gun safety.	Feb-18-2013
Against	We do not need guns in schools. The idea that a person possessing a gun on school grounds will somehow prevent some mass shooting is ludicrous.	Feb-18-2013
For		Feb-18-2013

77th (2013) SessionOpinions

77th (2013) Session
Opinions