Website review: Students want chance to defend them...
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•14 reviews since Apr 15, 2008
politics, guns, gun-control
•cnn.com/2008/US/04/14/campus.guns/index.html
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goodearl rated 3 months ago- If I were a sick kid with a gun and knew everyone else had a gun, what would happen if I walked into a room and started shooting? Would it not cause a chain reaction where everyone started shooting everyone else?
NOT A GOOD IDEA.
LESS GUNS, NOT MORE
From the page: "Michael Flitcraft, a 23-year-old sophomore at the University of Cincinnati, has become a leading advocate for college students to carry weapons on campus. He's an organizer for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, a grass-roots organization that was formed after last year's Virginia Tech massacre that left 32 college students and professors dead."- If I were a sick kid with a gun and knew everyone else had a gun, what would happen if I walked into a room and started shooting? Would it not cause a chain reaction where everyone started shooting everyone else?
- BettyJoBradley rated 3 months ago
- Madness. As a university professor who has seen students in my classes blow up when learning they earned a low grade on a paper or for the class, I would NOT want those same temporarily angry students packing heat. And no, I do not think many students would resort to shooting their professor or, during some social confrontation, shooting another student. But I do think that the chance of those types of gun violence on campus is higher than the chance of a Virginia Tech-type shooting happening.
- commerican rated 3 months ago
- From the page: ""My belief is we ought to be focusing on what we do to prevent the shooting from starting." He also said that there are practical concerns from a law enforcement perspective: If you're responding to the scene of a shooting, how do you sort out who is the bad guy and who is the heroic student with a permit?" Makes some good points. If someone passes psychological tests, takes classes on how to properly use a firearm, and is licensed to carry it concealed (yes, as part of a well-regulated militia), I don't see a problem. But imagine some drunk, paranoid frat boy pulling out his gun at every loud noise he hears, or to end an argument really quick, or to open his beer can, etc. It's easy to claim you have the right to defend yerself with firearms, but it's hard to admit that you are still a monkey, and monkeys aren't the rational, logical critters you'd like them to be, especially when they're packing heat.
- ryanlindly rated 3 months ago
- Same faulty reasoning of gun owners that want to protect their homes with handguns-- when purchasing a handgun raises the chance of someone in your nuclear family committing suicide by 7x, and for every successful defense of a home using a handgun there are 149 combined homicides, suicides, and accidental deaths with a handgun. Students won't be safer with more handguns, they'll be further at risk. That drunk asshole that broke his foot by dropping a keg on it and was so stoned didn't realize it for 24 hours-- you want him, on the rare occasion he comes to class, to have a gun? The math of 'protection' with a handgun doesn't add up. As for it being a constitutional right, we'll see this summer. Even if we find that we have an individual right, some restrictions will still be allowed- like at universities. The best argument I've heard is that there is an individual right to own firearms, but only if one is part of a well regulated militia.
- carolsim rated 3 months ago
- Oh joy...more students packing heat. That worked so well in our urban high schools that most now have metal detectors to keep guns out. I can see a real market for Kevlar on our nation's campuses if students are allowed to carry guns. Excuse me while I rearrange my investment portfolio.
- Neoscryer rated 3 months ago
- It wont lead to any more School shootings, though. If someone wants to kill people at school, what makes you think a gun law is going to stop them?
- mbthegreat rated 3 months ago
- cos that will definantly lead to fewer school shootings.
- Stumbleine33 rated 3 months ago
- i sure as hell don't want the wackos i go to school with to have guns!!
- BeaverYabor rated 3 months ago
- For the first time in a long time, there's a college student with some sense. You shouldn't punish law-abiding people because of what criminals do, you should instead punish the criminals and let the law-abiders follow the consitution to the letter if the want to. Bravo to this kid.
