This proposed regulation will have the opposite of the intended affect by playing into the hands of terrorists, violent criminals, and the criminally insane.  We have had no shootings in state agencies and this prohibition on those with a concealed handgun permit, some of whom have active and ongoing threats to their lives, is entirely without any justification and needlessly and recklessly endangers innocent lives.

Disarming good citizens (who are the only ones likely to obey the prohibition) does not make them safer.

Importantly the Governor has no authority for this regulation.  If the General Assembly wanted the Governor to have such power, they would have granted it to him explicitly, as is required constitutionally.

This proposed regulation is a solution for which there is no problem.  It endangers state employees, law abiding citizens, and the innocent by making state buildings a safe zone for terrorists, criminals, and the criminally insane to conduct their evil and savage actions.

This regulations should not be approved and the emergency regulation withdrawn.

All but two of the public massacres since 1950 had been committed by criminals and terrorists in “gun-free zones,” which is exactly what this regulation creates.

Recent events in Texas and California are good examples.  In Texas, only the terrorists were killed.  In California, 14 good people lost there lives before the terrorists were killed.

In a "gun free zone" on a military base, Major Hasan killed 14 unarmed people before he was stopped by a "good guy with a gun".

Most attacks with loss of life are stopped when the first "good guy" gun arrives on the scene.

Please extend the comment period by an additional 30 days.

Regards,

Steve Cohen