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A new gun control argument is out, and this time, it's for more freedom. The goal is to allow licensed students to carry their firearms on campus.
Usually when someone hears the word "gun," the word "violence" immediately comes to mind, throw in the words "student" and "campus" and automatically, people imagine a tragedy. All these are in conjunction with recent events, so it's understandable that people might have some fears about allowing students the right to carry their guns on campus. But all these fears can be calmed if we consider a few facts.
The first thing to consider is that in school shootings the student who committed the crime most often planned the murder - it was premeditated. As I've said before, I'm terrified of guns, but a person with a gun isn't what scares me. It's a person who wants to hurt me, who happens to have a gun - that's scary. Someone who has decided beforehand that they want someone else dead is not concerned with any regulations placed by a state or school, and this has been proven time and time again at different school tragedies.
The fact is a law is not going to stop a lawbreaker.
The murderer also knows that the victim will be helpless. Because guns are banned on campus it is understood that said murderer will be the only student with a gun, giving them the power.
Allowing students to carry on campus would provide them with a greater sense of security as well as a plausible means of defense against those who would like to harm them.
Don't think so? Take for example a shooting at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Va. A former student walked on to campus and shot two faculty members to death. Two students heard the gun shots and both ran to their cars and retrieved their own firearms; together, with a third student, they subdued the killer.
The students had to run to their cars to get their weapons, imagine how much damage the killer could have done in that amount of time. If the students had been able to carry their weapons with them, things could have ended even sooner than they did.
Guns are useful for your general safety as well. Pepper spray is a nice idea, but nothing will make criminal cower more than another person with a gun.
Not just anybody will have these guns. Students legally carrying guns will be the age of 21 or over, will have gone through a SLED background check and have attended a class on how to properly operate a firearm before they are legally allowed to carry.
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