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.
If the next school or college shooting happens to be in the administrative offices, they will install bullet proofing for themselves and declare the rest of the buildings as safe.
Well, we definitely have to forbid cars, voting, sex and alcohol, then. Hmmm... that used to be the case. It was called “In Loco Parentis” or some-such Latin phrase. It went out the window when we passed the Constitutional amendment making 18 year olds full citizens.
Repeal that amendment, and you might find some sympathizers.