http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/18/how-is-more-guns-a-solution-to-school-shootings/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:39:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/18/how-is-more-guns-a-solution-to-school-shootings/comment-page-1/#comment-17064 Anonymous Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:33:59 +0000 http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/18/how-is-more-guns-a-solution-to-school-shootings/#comment-17064 I'm one that supports the concept of allowing guns on campus, but you're right, with drunken fights and everything, our death toll could rise dramatically. The problem is, leaving those students unprotected makes them targets and results in the dozens of deaths from shooting rampages caused by people who break the laws that are in place. There are laws in place that ban guns on college campuses, but that hasn't stopped the Vtech or NIU shooter. Perhaps if there were say, an extremely strict license that would allow you to have guns on campus; not carry them around concealed, mind you, but just have one on campus, say in your car or in your dorm room. And by strict, I mean you get a speeding ticket and you lose your license kind of strict. Leaves the guns in the hands of the generally law-abiding citizens, without letting them proliferate to the point where every drunken frat boy is carrying a piece. I’m one that supports the concept of allowing guns on campus, but you’re right, with drunken fights and everything, our death toll could rise dramatically. The problem is, leaving those students unprotected makes them targets and results in the dozens of deaths from shooting rampages caused by people who break the laws that are in place. There are laws in place that ban guns on college campuses, but that hasn’t stopped the Vtech or NIU shooter. Perhaps if there were say, an extremely strict license that would allow you to have guns on campus; not carry them around concealed, mind you, but just have one on campus, say in your car or in your dorm room. And by strict, I mean you get a speeding ticket and you lose your license kind of strict. Leaves the guns in the hands of the generally law-abiding citizens, without letting them proliferate to the point where every drunken frat boy is carrying a piece.

]]> http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/18/how-is-more-guns-a-solution-to-school-shootings/comment-page-1/#comment-16722 snaked Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:21:03 +0000 http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/18/how-is-more-guns-a-solution-to-school-shootings/#comment-16722 I'm not convinced more guns on campus would even do much to positively affect that "statistically insignificant blip." I can't imagine that in a mass shooting, everyone carrying a gun will know precisely who carrying a gun is the instigator. I’m not convinced more guns on campus would even do much to positively affect that “statistically insignificant blip.” I can’t imagine that in a mass shooting, everyone carrying a gun will know precisely who carrying a gun is the instigator.

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