1L student advocates for concealed carry on campus

Ilya Chernyavskiy, a 1L at Brandeis Law, believes students, faculty and staff at the University of Louisville who have permits to carry concealed weapons should be allowed to do so. 

He'll argue that point as part of a Sept. 23 panel discussion about campus safety hosted by the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education.

Chernyavskiy is state director for the Kentucky chapter of Students for Concealed Carry. 

"I don't think students and faculty and staff should have to decide between their livelihoods and their lives," he said. 

UofL has a policy against deadly weapons on campus, but carrying concealed weapons with proper permits on campus is not a crime.

"I think this policy should be changed because the law allows it," Chernyavskiy said. "Students should be allowed to take responsibility for their own lives."