Because gun control worked so well at Virginia Tech.
Didn’t they learn anything from what happened at Viginia Tech?
Will they also be training local police to cower behind trees until massacres end?
And depriving honest, law abiding citizens of the means to protect themselves and others does this exactly how? Or do you mean it is and will continue to be a safe place for criminals to ply their trades?
Well, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The Virginia Tech shootings provoke cries for draconian gun control laws enlisting wisdom from bureaucrats and politicians comparable to those who applied their trenchant and mercurial incites to keeping out 10 million illegal aliens. However, an alternative would expand permitted concealed carry in public places.
A rigorous, twenty-year study by John Lott and William Landes from the University of Chicago Law School supports this alternative. Passage of shall issue laws correlates with large decreases in multiple victim shootings and reduced harm from shootings, which do occur.
Licensed citizens who understand shooting, and limits for use of deadly force can make startling interruptions resulting in abandoned or improvised plans. The assailant may not be neutralized, but now police would respond to an incident in progress, instead of arriving for body counts and paperwork.
The absence of shootings is also important. Public place shootings provide perpetrators leading roles in theatricals executing private, malevolent fantasies. Previously imagined screams and explosions suddenly penetrate their beings, embellished by intimate self-created visual stimuli of human terror, bloody mists, broken bodies, culminating in the Gotterdammerung of suicide at their chosen moment. The latent presence of armed citizens provides a deterrent disqualifying those places, leading prospective murderers to abandon their fantasies, or to seek the supportive environment of a “gun free’ zone.
Our colleges tout disturbing protocols for evacuating, witnessing, communicating, containing, coordinating, notifying, and counseling, while not revealing minimum police response times provide murderers five to ten minutes for uninterrupted violence.
Hate to break with the crowd here, but I have some practical reservations about guns in dorm rooms. For starters, college students are not always careful about who is in and out of their dorm room. There friends are in and out, and friends of their friends, and on and on. And not all those people are always sober and responsible. Unless the student had a place to lock the gun away securely, I would be concerned about who might pick it up and get stupid with it.
I would not be concerned about the student who owned the gun, but I would be most of his friends would not have experience with handling guns safely. It seems like an accident waiting to happen.
I am not totally opposed to allowing students to have guns in their room, but if I were running the school, I would mandate gun safety classes for the student gun owner, and those sharing his living area. I would also make sure that there was a safe, locked place to store the gun within the room.
My favorite
“We want to make students aware of their rights and responsibilities.”
How about the right to protect yourself...
Guess they didn't learn a damned thing from Va Tech.