'Gun dorms' attract 0 students at CU campuses

TheDenverChannel ^ | 11/25/2012 | staff reporter

[Daffynition]

BOULDER, Colo. -

Colorado's new segregated "gun dorms" for students with valid concealed-carry permits have attracted zero students.

The Daily Camera newspaper reports that since the University of Colorado's Boulder and Colorado Springs campuses began segregating dorms for students with valid concealed-carry permits this year, not a single student has asked to live where guns are allowed.

On Aug. 16, CU announced it would establish residential areas for students over age 21 with a permit to hold a concealed handgun. In all other dormitories, guns are banned.

[Daffynition]

And I thought the days of segregation were over.

[dila813]

Wow, those other dorms are death traps

[GeronL]

Why would they want to be segregated?

[onyx]

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[gaijin]

Political stunt with the results engineered in advance.

[EDINVA]

Not a brilliant thing to advertise, a dorm full of unarmed students (tho that’s pretty much that status in dorms across the country),

[Average Al]

What? Are all the other dorms co-ed?

[driftdiver]

Probably several factors involved. These are the older students so a higher percentage probably have apartments off campus. CU probably picked the worst dorms and made them the most difficult to get into.

[chris37]

I’m certainly not going to advertise to anyone who may wish to know that I have a CCW, a firearm and where that firearm is.

Seems like an incredibly silly idea, also it makes it seem like the leprocy dorms or something...

[Daffynition]

One of my alma maters just announced that all the campus frats and sororities must be co-ed. Heh.

[Daffynition]

Part of the elitist liberal’s plan.

[nonamer]

That’s exactly what I was thinking. Besides the frat boys, students don’t really like living in the dorms (at least I didn’t) and most move into on-or-off campus apartments in their second year and beyond. Plus, like someone else said, the school probably limited the space to the worst dorm rooms on campus.

[Bryanw92]

Who lives in a dorm at age 21? I wouldn’t even live in base housing by the time I was 21.

[Average Al]

Aren’t most frats and sororities off campus though?

[FlingWingFlyer]

I would have thought the 0 students would be afraid of guns and some of those idiots who actually believe that 0 really “has their back”.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Why don't they make them wear a Star of David on their clothing, too?

[Jemian]

I don’t really believe this. It is too much in one direction.

[Pondo]

What a crock, very few kids 21 years old and over live in the dorms anyway. They all move off campus by sophomore year.

[glorgau]

Separate but equal.

[Winstons Julia]

No kidding. Reminds me of when the Illinois Attorney General wanted to publish FOID owners....

[CodeToad]

First off, what 21 year old is still living in the dorms?

[ThunderSleeps]

Political stunt with the results engineered in advance.

Exactly. CU Boulder? Really? First ask if any - ANY students that go there even have concealed carry permits. For those that don't know, the entire Boulder area is about as liberal as they come this side of the Rockies. Add on top of that an even more liberal typical college environment... That is not the kind of area/school that attracts students who are likely firearms enthusiasts, or take responsibility for their own selves, own defense. I'll bet you good money there aren't 50 concealed carry permit holders in the entire city of Boulder.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And you MUST have a gun? Even if I didn’t, I’d sooner live in the “shooting gallery.”

[SaraJohnson]

Well liberals can stop belly aching about the freedom to be armed on campuses then.

Students are permitted the freedom to be armed and have chosen not to be armed right now. So, as usual, liberals were screeching hysterically about nothing.

Idiots!

[Dr. Sivana]

Who lives in a dorm at age 21? I wouldn’t even live in base housing by the time I was 21.

Most schools have different (worse)financial aid packages for those who live off-campus. I had a full-tuition scholarship for my senior year that would have been forfeited had I lived off-campus. Also, some schools have VERY strict rules requiring froshes to live in dorms, regardless of age, unless married. When some Orthodox Jews fought the rule, they lost, and got married rather than live in the dorms.

[elkfersupper]

Guess what?

A human has to be 21 years old in order to own or posess a handgun.

How many university students still living in a dorm are that old?

This story is crap, designed to make people believe that "enlightened" college students don't want and don't want to be around handguns.

[Caipirabob]

I thought the whole point of concealed carry is that nobody is supposed to know.

Including the damned leftist nazis.

[Secret Agent Man]

CU was never gun friendly, all the gun owners had to find living places off campus, why would they drop where they’re living now to go back? CU drove them away, not a surprise now they won’t live in a CU dorm.

[caveat emptor]

firearms enthusiast ???

[Daffynition]

Which fits the leftist agenda to a *T*....making the notion of concealed carry worthless. How convenient.

[libertarian27]

Story about the story
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_22056373/no-students-move-following-cu-dorm-segregation-gun

[ari-freedom]

The whole point of concealed is so that people don’t know...

[BfloGuy]

These are the older students so a higher percentage probably have apartments off campus. CU probably picked the worst dorms and made them the most difficult to get into.

There's that and then what kind of dorky kid defines himself by his love of guns? The article is loaded with bias, of course, but the premise of providing gun-carrying dorms is questionable.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I am not surprised. Very few permit holders are young enough to be in college and live in the dorm. Second, those who are old enough to have a permit would probably not live on campus.

[married21]

Wow. It would be tempting to say you have a gun in order to get the place to yourself.

[Red in Blue PA]

A human has to be 21 years old in order to own or posess a handgun.

A human? How about a "US citizen after the implementation of GCA68"?

[exhaustguy]

What would a student in the dorm do with their personal weapon? Should the school expect the student to bring a gun safe for when the student goes to the shower or leaves the room without the gun?

[Daffynition]

Those details would have to be ironed out when they get participants, I think.

[ConservativeTeen]

If you are 21 to start the school year you are likely a Senior. Outside of RA’s, I knew very few Seniors who lived in the dorms.

[Daffynition]

Of course, the school knew that....so it fits their agenda of being able to say” *Oh well, we offered it...and no one took advantage of it.*