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Some colleges and universities in Virginia have chosen to ban concealed carry, and we believe that those universities have created more dangerous environments for their students, faculty, and staff.

As the president of a university community of nearly 15,000 students and 7,000 faculty and staff, I take very seriously my responsibility to keep our campus safe in an increasingly dangerous world. The concealed carry policy has worked well for us.

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I noted that the attacks would almost certainly push us as a nation more toward security.

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.