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Sheriff Deputizes University Professors so They Can Carry on Campus for Self-Defense

by AWR Hawkins The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is training faculty of Lakeland, Florida’s Southeastern University to carry concealed weapons for self-defense and is deputizing them to get around the state’s ban on campus carry. The state’s ban allows law enforcement–including sheriff’s deputies–to carry on campus. NRATV’s Ginny Simone reports that the program is the first of its kind, and one that comes in the wake of the heinous attack on Republican lawmakers in Alexandria, Virginia. Polk County Sheriff Grady said he “will swear in the staff as special deputies, giving them the authorities [to possess firearms] when every second… View Article