I know that there have been a number of shootings on school grounds, be they colleges, high schools and probably even elementary schools. But the idea that students should be allowed to carry concealed weapons boggles my mind. Yet in at least one university there is a group, Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, that is pushing for this.
It is ironic that the university is Virginia Tech, site of one of the school shootings. Maybe, if I were a student at the school, I might be worried that it may occur again (although the odds against this happening are staggeringly high). But why I would want to be on a college campus where my roommate might carry a gun is beyond me.
In an even more bizarre twist to this episode one of the speakers at an event sponsored by this group was one Eric Thompson, the gun dealer who supplied the weapons used in both the Virgina Tech and Northern Illinois shootings. Talk about sensitivity, understanding and compassion!
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This proposal has been widely broadcast by news media in Europe. It's not difficult to imagine the response it has evoked.
If there were another shooting and many people were packing, how could the cops sort out who exactly was a good and who was a bad shooter? Maybe they could get a black or white hat along with their gun.
Teens and young adults have been depressed for decades and they used to just commit suicide. I think almost all the mass shooters were put on psychiatric drugs and there are many people who say that the use of same screws their brains up more and escalates the anger.
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