By Prensa Latina
Washington : University students in Oklahoma might carry firearms to schools, if the Senate passes a bill approved by the state’s Chamber of Representatives.
The initiative is now in the hands of the Senate and was approved by the Chamber of Representatives (Lower Chamber) by 65 votes in favour to 36 against, despite the fact that several lawmen remembered successive shootouts in schools in Oklahoma and other US states.
The bill allows students who are in active military service and are members of the National Guard, the Reserve, war veterans and other people authorized by the Law Application Education Council to enter schools armed with guns.
The initial proposal was presented by Republican Jason Murphy and wanted even authorize any person who is 21 years old, with a certificate to carry a gun, to enter universities carrying it.
“That is the craziest thing I have ever seen in my whole life,” said Democrat legislator Ray McCarter, one of the representatives who was opposed to the initiative in the Chamber of Representatives.
More than 60,000 people in Oklahoma have a license to carry a gun.
In February, 7 people died in a gunshot in a university in the north of Illinois, another 15 injured citizens were hospitalized, one of them in critical condition.