Conceal Carry On Campus Controversy

Kentucky state law doesn’t ban students from carrying concealed weapons on UK’s campus but the university does and after the recent crime wave, many are questioning whether that policy should be changed.

“To ban personal protection of arms, when they’re not here to protect us is a problem,” says David Burnett with the organization, Students for Concealed Carry on Campus.

Burnett says students at UK are extremely vulnerable to criminals.

“There’s no secure boundaries. There’s no checkpoints. There’s no guards. We have a police force but on their better days there’s 50 officers patrolling 700 acres of campus, so that’s one officer for every seven football fields. So its not hard if you’re a criminal to try to find a target thats isolated,” explains Burnett.-[source]