Would Allowing Students to Carry Weapons Make College Campuses Safer?

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If gun control worked, schools would be the safest places in the country.  But gun free school zones have proven to be a dangerous delusion that has resulted in people being forced to be victims.

The only people guaranteed to be safe in gun free zones are criminals. They can count on the law-abiding being disarmed. In reality, gun free zones are nothing more than criminal safe zones.

Stricter gun control laws -- than those found in the United States -- have not prevented Scotland (1996), Germany (2002) and Canada (2006) from seeing school yard massacres in their countries.

Virginia Tech is a gun free zone.  And the shooting which occurred at the university in 2007 was clearly the most horrific massacre ever on a U.S. school campus.  Could one good person with a gun have made a difference?  Well, there are the successful testimonies from Mississippi (1997), Pennsylvania (1998) and Virginia (2002) which clearly indicate that good people, when armed, can stop a gunman in his tracks.  (See Argument #1.)

And then in December, 2007, the nation once again saw how one brave person can stop a killer who is bent on murdering dozens of people.  A very well-armed man shot and killed two sisters in the parking lot of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  He then entered the building where he was engaged by some of the twenty church members who had volunteered for the security team.  

When Jeanne Assam told the shooter to drop his gun, he swung around, firing in an attempt to shoot her.  She shot him repeatedly until he fell mortally wounded.  He then took his own life.  No innocent bystanders were killed inside the New Life Church, and none were shot by the security team. 

Guns save lives.