A post-Virginia Tech initiative in Nevada:
On Thursday, the Nevada Board of Regents gave the go-ahead to four public colleges in the state to develop policies — which would still require board approval in September — to allow faculty and staff members to become reserve police officers authorized to carry guns …
"There are lots of other things we need to do" to make campuses more safe, Anthony said, but most of them — better lighting, more surveillance, hiring more full-time police officers — "are very costly and take a lot more time to implement…. I guarantee you there are people who would like to be in a position to defend themselves and others on campus, and we will be putting more police officers on campus without paying them to be full time."
Glenn Reynolds may move West.
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