House Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh, D-Ripley, called on Gov. Bill Haslam to consider vetoing legislation that would force Tennessee colleges to allow guns in their campus parking lots.
“Gov. @BillHaslam should put veto on the table re: guns on campus,” Fitzhugh said on Twitter. “With 25 R votes, we can sustain it. He will need to show leadership.”
Fitzhugh’s statement came after Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey told a group of higher education officials in East Tennessee earlier this week that he will file guns-in-trunks legislation that will include colleges and universities.
Haslam later told reporters that a compromise guns-in-trunks bill ought to include an exemption for higher education. But he refused to be drawn into playing the veto card on Thursday.
“There’s not a bill out there,” he said. “I can’t comment on a bill that, literally, I don’t know anything about yet.”
