Mike Guzman and thousands of other students say the best way to prevent campus bloodshed is more guns.
Guzman, an economics major at Texas State University-San Marcos, is among 8,000 students nationwide who have joined the nonpartisan Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, arguing that students and faculty already licensed to carry concealed weapons should be allowed to pack heat along with their textbooks.
"It's the basic right of self defense," said Guzman, a 23-year-old former Marine. "Here on campus, we don't have that right, that right of self defense."
Many states forbid license-holders from carrying weapons on school campuses, while in states where the decision is left to the universities, schools almost always prohibit it. Utah is the only state that expressly allows students to carry concealed weapons on campus.
College campuses are different from other public places where concealed weapons are allowed. Thousands of young adults are living in close quarters, facing heavy academic and social pressure — including experimenting with drugs and alcohol — in their first years away from home.
This is an idea that is so ludicrous that I cannot even believe it needs to be addressed.
Allowing hormonal, overly stressed, young people who may be experimenting with alcohol or drugs for the first time without any parental supervision close by, to carry hand guns is so stupid it makes my head throb!
What kind of complete simpleton believes, even for an instant, that allowing MORE kids to carry weapons on campus is going to REDUCE the incidence of gun violence?
That is like suggesting that handing out bags of candy to elementary school students will reduce the amount of hyperactivity in the classroom. It is an idea that would only occur to somebody whose head was so far up their ass they could watch their food digest.
I hate these pro-gun assholes who believe that the solution to all violence is to arm everybody. They are an embarrassment to those of us who have evolved past the need to prove our manhood by carrying a device whose sole purpose is to end the life of another person.
Look I am sorry your penis is so small, but carrying a gun will not make you any more manly. Try surgery.
Gryphen, you just said it ALL! (and here, I was only stopping by to wish you a Happy T-Day) ...
ReplyDeleteI am sorry but the last sentence does say it all..I mean come on...What the? and boy they got airplay this week.....( and funny ho Virgina Tech Tragedy has fallen to the back of folks grey matter....) thank you for covering this the way it needed to be covered...
ReplyDelete( hey there you know since I am jones-ing for John and Stephen I now come here twice a day ;-)