Students For Concealed-Carry on Campus
Go ahead. Make my day!
As I ponder the most recent school campus slaughter, once again I come up with the same conclusion: The only defense against some random nut crashing into a classroom with guns blazing is to have somebody in the room packing heat and trained to shoot back. Sure, there might be initial injury and death, but the number might be kept to a minimum if potential victims turned the tables on such an attacker. After all-- what is a "gun free zone" to an attacker but an easy target?
Well, it seems that I'm not alone in my thinking that we need MORE guns in the classrooms and campuses, not less. Newsweek has the story about a new group formed whose goal is just that: The Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. This is a great idea!
The group, whose 12,000 members nationwide include college students, faculty and parents, champions legislation that would allow licensed gun owners to carry concealed weapons on campus, in the hope that an alert and well-trained citizen could stop a deranged shooter before he or she could do serious damage.
Before all you gun grabbers get your undies all in a bundle and pass off the notion of shooting back as mere fantasy, consider this from the same Newsweek story:
There was the example at the church in Colorado Springs back in December where they actually allowed members, encouraged certain members who had a concealed-handgun license to carry their guns at church. These people were not licensed security guards. They had not been through the state-mandated security guard training or any of that. These were simply people who had concealed-handgun licenses, and the church said, "You know, we'd appreciate it if you would carry your guns at church for the protection of this church." And this woman actually managed to shoot a guy as he was walking through the door armed to the teeth, like Rambo. So concealed carry has mitigated dangerous situations like this in the past.
Perhaps if would-be murderous crazies knew they faced a high possibility of being greeted with return fire, they might think twice before attempting their twisted acts in the first place, thus actually REDUCING gun violence by the addition of MORE guns... As a parent with a child in college and one in high school, that would certainly make my day!
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