Gun Theft
Increasing gun ownership among college students, especially if they live in campus dorms, is also likely to provide a prime, tempting target for gun thieves. Between 1993 and 2002, nearly 1.7 million firearms were reported stolen to police. The U.S. Justice Department has found that 10% of prison inmates incarcerated on gun charges obtained their gun by stealing it. Stolen guns have already been the source of school shootings in Jonesboro, Arkansas, Springfield, Oregon, and elsewhere.
Most guns that are stolen are taken from homes or parked cars. But these targets seem extremely hardened compared to the ease with which guns could be stolen out of college dorm rooms. Dorm rooms are small, limiting the number of places where guns could be hidden or locked up. They often experience considerable numbers of visitors, some of whom might decide to pinch a firearm if they see one, given their resale value on the illegal market. It is also unlikely that college gun owners will be able to keep secret the fact that they have a gun or guns, and many may openly flaunt this fact. Of course, this will also make it easier for gun thieves to learn where the guns are and steal them.
Once a gun is stolen, it is much more likely to be used in subsequent crime. Thus, if the sensible policies currently in place at nearly all colleges and universities nationwide are replaced by widespread student ownership of firearms, not only will the danger to students on and off campus increase, but so will the danger to surrounding communities. The best deterrent to firearms theft on college campuses is obviously not to permit students to possess firearms at all. Without guns there can be no gun thefts. Colleges that require students to lock up firearms in a facility managed by campus security or local police also dramatically reduce the risks of gun theft.
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DID lock them up at campus police headquarters in order to comply with the gun-free campus regulation. That's why no one had one with which to stop Seung-hui Cho, who was about to violate the law against mass murder.
That's why no one was able to rescue the Tech student two years later when her obsessed admirer CUT OFF HER HEAD outside a campus cafe. The police arrived within ONE MINUTE of being called by witnesses. Too late.
that criminals prefer to get guns by STEALING them. Never thought I'd hear that.
Of course they still believe that college students, our best and brightest, our future CEOs and leaders, can't be trusted not to shoot themselves through incompetence with 19th-century technology and each other over bad grades and hallway collisions.
Please, keep insulting the people you hope to bring to your side.
And you want to help THESE guys?:
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
How many fire arms are stolen from local and federal law enforcement and the military every year?
look it up
The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Ownership is at it again. If they paid attention to any of the evidence, they would not need others to debunk this absurd claim.
The idea of the potential of gun theft on college campus where concealed carrying is allowed is absolutely absurd. As "mer" comments previously, an individual would not leave a handgun around like they would a bookbag so that someone else would have the ability to possibly take it from them. The point of concealed carry is so that others won't be able to see it. I do not know much about how the actual process works, as far of rules on how you are to carry, but I am sure that the firearm always will be, and has to be on the person in the form of a gun holster or a gun belt. If a person would be so irresponsible as to not keep track of thier firearm, then they are the type of individual that should not, and does not deserve to carry. Despite these few people in the population, I do believe that for each person that would do something as stupid as leave their gun behind, there are plenty more law abiding citizens that will utilize their privilege of concealed carrying of a firearm for their own personal protection.
Okay isn't the point of a concealed weapon to keep it with you incase you need to use it. So why would a firearm just be lying around in a students dorm waiting to be stolen? It wouldn't be.
Another point...If someone really wants a gun they aren't going to have to steal it from a college dorm room. So what if guns aren't allowed on campus. If they really want to do damage, they are just going to go off campus and steal a gun there.
So Brady...
At ALL 9 Public Universities in Utah, as well as Colorado State University and Blue Ridge Community College in Virginia there has NEVER been a gun theft on campus. And as you know, all of these places currently allow LICENSED students to carry on campus.
These 21+ year olds are not the students living in dorms, or on campus.. Most Universities wont allow students that have over 60 hours (19-20 years old) to live on campus.
It's not "increasing gun ownership", these students are ALREADY licensed to carry virtually EVERYWHERE else. They already have the licenses, and they already have the firearms (and there havent been any problems).
When will the Brady Campaign stop the LIES ???