UC President Seeks Tighter Gun Restrictions

{Charleston, West Virginia}…University of Charleston President  Ed Welch has joined 300 other college and university presidents nationwide in calling on Congress to enact tighter restrictions on guns. Welch says he’s no constitutional scholar, but he believes the thinking of the founding fathers in 1787 could not have concluded the opportunity for arms today. Welch says there must be some middle ground to devlop policies and practices that protect the rights of individuals to have and use guns and limit the capacity of what those weapons might do. Welch says the Second Amendment was put into place right after the revolution and crafters of the Amendment were concerned about a government takeover. He says, if you apply that standard today, it would be arguable that citizens should have access to missiles and nuclear weapons.