Sorry for second post, but I think the topic difference merits it.
Here is quote from the article:
Quote:
For CU, a decision from the Colorado Supreme Court will have a much broader impact than "are guns good or are guns bad?" said Ken McConnellogue, a system spokesman.
It comes down to governance, he said.
"Does the Board of Regents have the autonomy to govern the university?" he asked. "We believe it does."
|
So the main thrust of the Board's argument is not gun rights per se but rather the autonomy of the college in governing itself. They are pulling out all the stops, folks. It sounds like they are trying to argue they are like a private property (and thus autonomous) except that due to their funding status they aren't a private property. They want to have their cake and eat it, too.
IMO this is a shaky argument at best especially now that self defense has been ruled a fundamental right. Remember that another fundamental right, freedom of speech, does not stop at the schoolhouse door. This may not be a fair comparison being that freedom of speech is applied with strict scrutiny and we have yet to see the scrutiny applied to the Second Amendment, but I think the point is clear. It is going to be very hard to convince a court that their autonomy granted to them by some unrelated statute is more important than the Second and Fourteenth Amendments.