A legislative committee cleared the way Wednesday for a full Senate vote on a Republican bill that would allow concealed weapons in Wisconsin, brushing aside concerns the measure would lead to more gun violence. The measure?s fate is murky. It doesn?t require any training or permits, a nod to gun advocates who believe they have the absolute constitutional right to bear arms without restrictions, but Assembly Republicans are pushing a separate bill that calls for instruction and licenses. The two Democrats on the committee, Sens. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, and Fred Risser, D-Madison, raised all manner of what-if scenarios, from whether University of Wisconsin-Madison students could carry concealed weapons into class to whether people could carry concealed around the Madison zoo.
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