Don’t Allow Anti-Gun Hysteria to Prevail
Opponents of concealed carry laws in general have been proven time and again to be absolutely wrong on their predictions that concealed carry will bring an avalanche of shootings. Now they have a new bogeyman, the notion of concealed carry on college campuses, but in attacking on that new front, they are falling back on the same old cliché-ridden arguments. Not everyone on college campuses is opposed to the idea. The Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) was founded as a response to Virginia Tech, and there are now chapters all over the country. Students can present valid arguments in support of concealed carry, and they do.
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of the Department of Justice is a good resource too.
Speaking of hysteria and those U.S. guns "seized" in Mexico...
ATF abuse connected to U.S. guns "found" in Mexico.
The ATF took them there, and encourages border-area gun shops to make multiple sales to shady characters in order to pad trace statistics. In exchange, the gun shop's books won't fail to "pass inspection."
http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/is-project-gunwalker-about-to-bust-wide-open
Did anyone ever think to ask students what they want? Students at college are being provided a service; they are paying for the education and everything else they receive. The opinions of students at individual campuses should probably be considered before someone just says,
"Hey, let's let anyone on college apply for a concealed weapons license. So what if they get drunk and do dumb things on the weekend, as long as during the day they're protected right..."
You don't need a permit to have a gun at a keg party. Why do people keep going back to the keg party thing when talking about carrying on campus ? It has nothing to do with anything. These would be 21 year old students that are carrying in Walmart(then maybe go to a keg party). Then maybe going out to eat while carrying
(then maybe go to a keg party). Then go home carrying,
(Then maybe go to a keg party). Then maybe GO TO CLASS carrying ( then maybe go to a keg party).. Whats the difference here? These kids are doing all of this already. It's illegal to carry while drinking. Most people dont "flash their guns around" Why is it that everywhere else they carry, they act responsibly, but if they carry on campus they're gonna "go off".
Plenty of college kids dont even drink and most are ACTUALLY ADULTS WITH COMMON SENSE.
If anyone with a permit gets caught drinking while carrying, they can have thier license revoked. Once you have that permit, you dont want to do anything to risk loosing it. Conceal carriers are 6 times LESS likely to commit a crime than someone without a permit. Its a fact.
Most people that argue against carrying are just uninformed. It only takes about 30 minutes with Mr Google to get the facts.
Do you trust a cop firing back at a killer? The fact is, most conceal weapon carriers can out shoot a cop. We practice more than cops do. Cops only have to qualify with their weapon once a year. Some practice very little in betwwen time. Most conceal carriers practice atleast once a month.
If my child was sitting in a classroom with the doors barricaded and there was a man with a gun coldly shooting people, you damned right I'd hope someone, ANYONE, would be there to save my daughters life. Even better, MY DAUGHTER BE GIVEN THE RIGHT TO DEFEND HER OWN LIFE on campus and anywhere else she may be.
To all that doubt this, i ask that you do research and see the facts. Not studies by the NRA, but by the states, ATF studies etc.
The national group Students for Concealed Carry on Campus now has over 36,000 members. Also we don't advocate giving every college student a permit we only wish to allow those who already have a permit to be able to protect themselves on campus as they do everywhere else. What makes a college campus so special? Obviously after Vtech we know that there isn't some invisible force field around colleges that keep evil people out. Criminals don't follow the law so as it sits right now only criminals can carry on college campuses. Why does it matter if they drink on the weekends as long as they aren't carrying I could care less. Last time I checked having some drinks on the weekend doesn't qualify you to be a psycho that wants to shoot up a school.
Hope to not offend my fellow Americans, but you developed a culture of hysteria in the past...
Spying on anyone... permitted. Taking figerprints when entering the country... permitted. Holding hostile combatants without a trial... well... ok... overlooked...
All this shows, something terribly bad happens to you and you throw all the liberties, for which you used to be a worldwide role model for centuries, overboard.
Rather hysteric, dont you think? So why care about one more liberty (which in my opinion is the most dangerous liberty of all American liberties) lost?
I wish I could understand this reasoning...