Eustis wanted guns on SUNY campuses

Thanks to the reader who brought this story to my attention.

Kelly Eustis, the possible third candidate for the north country's congressional seat, wanted to form a militia and bring guns on SUNY campuses for nighttime escorts and patrols, according to that story.

Mr. Eustis is never interviewed in the piece, but said it was a Second Amendment right.

School officials told him, in effect, No, it's not, we already have a full-time police force, it's not your Second Amendment right.

The guns-on-campus issue was a big one in Texas, as well, but it apparently never made it anywhere in the Empire State, because I haven't heard of this policy being changed.

Mr. Eustis, a conservative activist who has aided tea party groups, grew up in Argyle and attended SUNY Potsdam from 2005 to 2007, leaving before graduation to start a PR consulting firm.