Sims, Panel OKs Guns On Campus

Update: The House State Affairs Committee has voted 11-8 in favor of HB 222, the guns-on-campus bill, sending it to the full House with a recommendation that it “do-pass.” The vote came after a motion to hold the bill in committee failed on an identical 8-11 vote. ( Coeur d’Alene’s Kathy Sims was in favor )

Former House Speaker Bruce Newcomb, the government affairs director for Boise State University, told the House State Affairs Committee that when he was in the Legislature, his first rule for legislation was to do no harm. “We’re fixing a perceived non-existent problem with a solution that creates problems,” with HB 222, the guns-on-campus bill, he told the committee. “I just suggest, why fix something that ain’t broke?”/ Betsy Russell , Eye On Boise. More here .

Question: Would you like to see drunk students packing heat at a game between Boise State and Idaho? (Yeah, I know BSU doesn’t want to play Idaho any more in football. So this is a hypothetical question.)