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48 Idaho L. Rev. 1 (2011-2012)

handle is hein.journals/idlr48 and id is 1 raw text is: BULLETS AND BOOKS BY LEGISLATIVE FIAT: WHY ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND PUBLIC POLICY PERMIT HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS TO SAY NO TO GUNS SHAUNDRA K. LEWIS* We recoil in horror and search for explanations, but we never face up to the obvious preventive measure: a ban on the handy killing machines that make crimes so easy.1 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. IN TR O D U CTIO N ............................................................................ 2 II. BACKGROUND ON CAMPUS CARRY LAWS ........................... 4 III. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS' RIGHT TO ACADEMIC FR E E D O M ................................................................................. 10 A. Constitutional Academic Freedom ....................................... 12 B. Campus Carry Laws Forcing Guns on Campuses Violate Academ ic Freedom ............................................................... 13 IV. STRICT SCRUTINY APPLIES ................................................... 17 V. THE LEGISLATION CANNOT WITHSTAND STRICT SC R U T IN Y ................................................................................ 19 A. Reasons the Legislation is Not Narrowly Tailored ............. 20 1. Undetected Mental Illness Is the Real Source of Rampage Shootings and Not the Lack of G un Pow er ....................................................................... 20 2. Concealed Handgun License Holders Can Be B ad G uys Too ................................................................. 21 3. CHLs and Handguns Are Too Easy To Obtain .............. 22 4. It Is Unlikely a Shooter Will Stop a Crazed G unm an ........................................................................... 23 5. The Presence of Firearms Will Increase the * Assistant Professor of Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law; J.D. 1998, St. Thomas University School of Law; B.A. 1995, Stetson University. This article was supported by a 2011 summer research grant from Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law. The author thanks Danyahel Norris, Esq. and research assistant Corwyn Davis for their research assistance. The author also thanks Associate Dean L. Darnell Weeden, Professor Constance Fain, Professor Njeri Rutledge, Professor Cassandra Hill, and Vernon Lewis, Esq. for their helpful suggestions and support. Finally, the author appreciates the helpful comments provided by the participants at the 2011 Lutie A. Lytle Faculty Writ- ing Workshop. 1. Josh Sugarmann, Editorial, Seattle and Honolulu Shootings More Reasons to Regulate Guns, N.Y. TIMES, Nov. 4, 1999, http://www.saf.org/pub/rkba/general/Sugarmann Editorial.htm.

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