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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
There's no need to replace anything with anything. Students do not need to carry guns to colleges and universities just like employees do not need to carry guns to work if their jobs do not require gun access.
All this about background checks, training, and mental preparation is a theoretical assumption. In real life, it does not and will not work like that.
Current policies and laws work quite well. School shootings are still a rarity and are not a result of failed gun laws. Some of the general public is just scared now because school shootings have hit too close to home and that fear sensationalizes the issue. I look back to what happened when terrorized citizens bought guns in the 1990s because drug dealers had them (and used them). But gun carrying citizens did not reduce the violence in drug and violence-infested neighborhoods. It increased it, which is one reason why law enforcement began gun buyback programs.
Anyway, none of this matters because students, faculty, and staff in most areas will never be allowed to have guns around or on campuses. That's the reality of the matter.
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Why shouldn't students who can carry guns almost everywhere else...have to abandon that right to pursue higher education. We not only fail to extend that right to college campuses, we advertise that the people gathered on those campuses are unable to defend themselves.
You're right, we shouldn't react to the school shootings by allowing campus carry. We should allow campus carry regardless. Hear a lot of stories about legally carrying citizens killing people at restaurants where they get in a dispute with their server? How about people carrying legally in general? I'll answer that for you, no, you don't.
People aren't going to get licensed to carry so they can pull a gun on a professor they don't like. If they're willing to break that law (murder, brandishing a weapon), they probably don't care about getting in trouble for having a gun on campus in the first place. Thus lies the absurdity of such arguments. People who are going to break the law aren't going to follow campus gun regulations. They already don't. Those who do and are going to follow the law are those who are caught defenseless by those who don't respect "gun free zones."
I don't think campus carry will solve the world's problems. What it will do is keep law-abiding students from being defenseless against those who have no respect for the law in the first place.
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