In 2011, current Florida State University president John Thrasher was chairman of the Florida Senate Rules Committee, which afforded him considerable influence on which bills would reach the floor. That year, Sen. Greg Evers was spon-soring SB 234 that would have, in part, allowed some people to carry guns on campus. This bill was enthusiastically supported by the NRA and quite possibly would have become law had Thrasher not been personally touched.