Is a reactor and associated cooling equipment so fragile that a handgun bullet is going to release dangerous amount of radiation? I worked with a federal employee at Oak Ridge National Laboratories (where they make the "bombs" among other things) and he used to keep a .357 in his truck.AJSully421 wrote:A&M has a nuclear reactor on campus. I can agree that you don't want firearms in there. Also, around MRI machines, or other magnets for obvious reasons. I can give a little about chemical labs where volatile chemicals are used and stored. That's it.
Disciplinary hearings?!?!?! What is preventing a disgruntled student from walking in that same building / room with a pistol right now? NOTHING!
What I cannot abide is the idea that somehow children are a special class of citizen that those of us who are more law abiding that the cops should not be able to carry a pistol in their presence. I OC my G17 around my house in a Safariland ALS holster while I am rough housing with my three kids. If I can do that, I am sure that I can walk the halls of an elementary school without causing harm to the children.
I would say that any place (school or not) that wants to ban guns must have an armed guard and a metal detector. Otherwise, nope.
18 USC 930 kept him from carrying in the buildings, but you're not gonna set one of those things off with a ricochet...
