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Originally Posted by LPIDelta
Tess-- I am actually coming around to your way of thinking. Last semester, some students at the university where I worked wanted to see a change in policy to allow students to carry (legally acquired and permitted) guns on campus, in light of what happened at Virginia Tech. Today I read something that basically said that most gunmen know if they visit a college/university campus, they know that there likely won't be any resistance. But, if they know people carry there, they may think twice. After all, you rarely hear of gun shows being the target of a gunman.
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School shootings are still a rarity.
If legislators make gun toting students legal and a potential nonrarity, there may be an increase in gun violence. For every student who claims to want a gun just in case a psycho starts to shoot, there will be a student who has a gun because an instructor pissed them off or because they have been hurt in some way. Let's not increase the gun availability for potential psychos or encourage Rambo students who want to defend campus. There aren't and won't be enough safety measures at schools to account for nonlaw enforcement agents legally having guns on campuses and in classrooms.