House panel kills bill to allow firearms on college campuses NOLA.com
BATON ROUGE -- Legislation that would have allowed qualified carriers of concealed handguns to take them on state college campuses died in a House committee Wednesday, dooming it for the session.
The Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice voted 8-3 to kill House Bill 413 by Rep. Ernest Wooton, I-Belle Chasse, the panel's chairman.
The vote prevents the bill from advancing to the House floor. Wooton said he probably will not try to attach the proposal as an amendment to a related gun bill because he does not want to jeopardize the other measure.
"I am disappointed but I am not surprised," Wooton said. "I'm a big boy. I'll be fine. It is an election year and that didn't help." He said some members of the panel -- he did not name names -- "couldn't allow themselves to understand what this bill does."
Wooton conceded his bill was a long shot, although he addressed concerns expressed by opponents during debate on various version of similar legislation over the past three years."
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