GREEN BAY - A number of so-called empty holster rallies are being planned next month at college campuses around the country.

The gatherings are planned to protest licensed and trained gun holders not being able to carry guns on campuses.

Some of those holsters are to be collected and-or donated by a Green Bay company.

It is T-G-S-Com Incorporated, which runs more than 100 gun and sporting goods Web sites.

That's the same firm that sold a gun to the campus shooter at Virginia Tech and some accessories to the Northern Illinois shooter.

Eric Thompson of T-G-S-COM says -- and we quote -- "These killers are going into their classrooms and lecture halls with the full intention to kill as many people as possible and the full intention of killing themselves before the police can get there. And they're doing it in minutes. And no matter how good the law enforcement is, they're still late."

But UW-Green Bay public safety director Randy Christopherson questions how officials would manage things if students were allowed to carry weapons in their book bags or on their side, and their behavior became threatening.

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