I’ve shot guns, grown up with them in the house, gone through hunter’s education, obtained a license to hunt and even killed two cow elk. Some of my favorite memories are going to the gravel pits near my house to practice shooting with my dad before hunting season.

But the fact that firearms can be legally carried on the University of Utah’s campus terrifies me.

Here in Utah, we’ve already seen how prevalent gun violence is — just two months ago an on-campus shooting at Utah Valley University took the life of right-wing political commentator Charlie Kirk . This happened just months after the Utah Legislature enacted HB128 .

As a student at the U. — where Utahns 18 years old or older, who have a concealed weapon permit, can carry a firearm — I fear these types of events will contin

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