Question: Politics aside - please - what are the practical campus planning considerations for a university when anyone who comes on campus could be carrying a weapon? Looking across the campus in an integrated fashion, who and what is affected and should be considered in planning for such a change? Please share your thoughts in SCUP's LinkedIn group. Don't feel limited to security and liability issues. What are the student services and residence hall implications? Athletics?

The most notorious shooting at an Arizona university took place in 2002 when a disgruntled nursing student shot three professors to death.

Anthony Daykin, the police chief at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where the shootings occurred, said his officers would be at a loss if they arrived at a shooting scene in a lecture hall holding hundreds of students and found scores of people pointing, and possibly shooting, weapons at one another. ...

Keeping guns out, not allowing more in, is the answer, critics of the bills say. Others contend that allowing guns on campus will help ensure that universities stay relatively tranquil.

Mark Lacey, Lawmakers Debate Effect of Weapons on Campus, The New York Times