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I know some will jump on me for this but I have a problem, again, with thousands of students carrying weapons on campus. Considering the original post, what do people think would have happened if these students had been armed and went running out of the building, weapons drawn, and met a bunch of heavly armed police? I think we would have had another big disaster on our hands. The police would not have know who these kids were. There’s got to be another answer.

It's over by the time the police get there, if the students are armed. In fact, it probably never happens in the first place.

But assume the bad guy goes after an armed campus. By the time the police arrive, its CSI time, not "rescue the helpless students time." At that point, anyone with 1/4 a brain puts down his weapon and puts up his hands. I carry concealed and I have already thought thru the "use your gun and wait for the police" scenario. In all of them, my gun is on the ground and my hands in clear view in the air when the police arrive.

Even had one or two of the students not thought to put their guns down and gotten shot by the police, that's still a lot fewer dead students on an armed campus than on a disarmed campus. More important, there are a lot fewer dead students in the future on campuses everywhere as bad guys look for softer targets.

No one likes the idea of a bunch of kids waving guns as the police arrive. Bad things could happen. But you cannot just analyze that possibility in isolation. The important question (one that liberals are unable to ask) is: What is the alternative? The alternative is the slaughter at Virginia Tech and Columbine. Neither alternative is especially attractive. To me, the "armed students greeting the police" alternative is, by far, the lesser of two evils.

"We handled this; now let's clean up," is a far better result (both from a standpoint of net deaths and from a standpoint of healthy, self-sufficient young men and women) than "you take care of this, I'm a helpless victim."

[do the dhue]

Good post

Kennesaw GA passed a law that said every home must have a gun. They did this because the town was experiencing record break ins. Well, over night their crime rate dropped and stayed that way. I am not above offering Weaponology 101 to Freshman’s. I don’t think things would be as bad as you think. I think people would learn how to respect each other. Punks can pull guns on people who don’t have them, but they can’t pull guns on people who do. They don’t have the guts. Only a fool does.

In the old days we put those crazy people in insane asylums. Now we put them on Jerry Springer and the news. Put them where they belong and allow me to defend myself.

Did you know that gunslinger came from Hollywood? The word did not exist before the 1950s. People didn’t act like they did in the movies. People were polite. Why? Because the ol’ pilgrim just might bust a cap in your arse. You teach kids at a young age to respect a gun, they will respect it for life. My first black eye came from a 12 Gauge at the age of five. I have been shooting ever since and I have never kilt anyone. I have been plenty mad at people in the past (mostly Demarerats) and I ain't never bagged and tagged one. If I was in that classroom with a weapon, I would have severed his cerebellum from his brain stem and he would have dropped like a rock. And I guarantee you that if he thought that there was one weapon in that class, Cho would have never entered it with his bad attitude. Gun grabbin liberals have this all wrong. Most all people are smart enough not to pull a gun on someone who might have a gun.

If we teach weaponology 101 and teach our kids how to respect and protect themselves and others, the body count would be one. No, zero.

An armed Society is a polite society. Cho would not have walked in that classroom, if he thought the above young lady's were going to be there. He would not have had the guts to come into that classroom with his bad attitude.

It is easy for punks like Cho to walk into a room full of unarmed people and cut loose. It is much harder to pull a gun on people who just might be armed.

If you think there would be people shooting each other every time they got mad at each other, I will not agree with you. I have been around guns all my life. I have been plenty mad at people (mostly Demorats), and I have yet to bust a cap in a demorats arse. I think you would be surprised. I think most people are smart enough not to do something stupid to a armed person.

Sure, there will be a couple crazy people that will do some stupid crap, but your body count won't be 31. It will be more like one.

VT took the rights of their students away but not allowing them to protect themselves. So, that means VT should be responsible for their students safety. But even our Police on the streets can not protect me and mine. They will only draw a white line around my body and then go look for who did it. Allow me to protect myself. I can do it best.