Rape victim Amanda Collins spoke on behalf of a campus carry bill making its way through Nevada’s state house.

Sean Whaley reports at the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

Nevada rape victim tells her story at gun campus-carry hearing

CARSON CITY — A woman who was raped on the University of Nevada, Reno campus in 2007 told her story to legislators for a third time Thursday in support of a bill that would allow concealed weapons permit holders to carry their weapons on college campuses.

Amanda Collins, a concealed weapons permit holder who was unarmed when she was raped by James Biela in a UNR parking garage, testified by Skype in the Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing on Assembly Bill 148.

The bill has provoked a strong reaction both from Second Amendment supporters and from many students and professors at the Nevada System of Higher Education who oppose the bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, R-Las Vegas. No immediate action was taken on the bill after a lengthy hearing.

It is the third attempt to get the so called campus carry bill through the Nevada Legislature. Permit holders in Nevada must be age 21 or older.

“All I wanted was a chance to effectively defend myself,” said Collins, who also testified in support of similar measures in 2011 and 2013. “That choice should not be mandated by the government.”

Biela later committed two other rapes, with one involving a murder. He was arrested in 2008 and later sentenced to death.

The hearing room in Carson City was packed Thursday, and an overflow room was required. The hearing room in Las Vegas was full as well.

Currently, concealed weapons are prohibited on campuses unless an individual obtains permission from the college president. Permission is rarely granted.