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DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- April's Virginia Tech massacre is causing universities across the United States to rethink policies that keep campus police unarmed.
Iowa Gov. Chet Culver, a Virginia Tech alum, endorsed a proposal that would arm officers at the state's three public universities, where some 50,000 students are enrolled, USA Today reported Monday.
Education officials in Nevada are considering allowing some college faculty members and staff members at the state's eight public campuses to carry guns as part of a reserve officer corps.
The U.S. Justice Department, which is scheduled to release a report on campus police agencies in November, found in its most recent study -- in 1996 -- that 81 percent of public universities have armed police forces.
USA Today said the department expects to see a jump in the number of universities with armed police but Brian Reaves, author of the new Justice Department report, said some large U.S. schools remain unarmed.
"You would think that after Virginia Tech, it would be a slam-dunk argument," Reaves told USA Today.
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