As Governor Nathan Deal vetoed his state’s controversial ‘Campus Carry’ bill this week, the state’s neighbor to the North saw its own version of the bill pass.
On Monday Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam declined to sign or veto, (and thereby letting pass) his state’s SB 2376, which allows full-time faculty and staff at colleges and universities to carry firearms on campus. Aware that local schools opposed the bill, as did many in Georgia, a reluctant Haslam said that, “Although SB 2376 does not go as far as I would like in retaining campus control, the final version of the bill included input from higher education and was shaped to accommodate some of their concerns.”
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