This is great support for having qualified, legal, stable citizens carrying on campuses and everywhere else.
Few states allow CCW for those under 21, so we are talking about professors, staff, and graduate students, not the average varsity roidhead, or beer-swilling frat boy.
They never brought out their weapons during parties, or, for that matter, ever.
If you had an interest in target shooting or wanted to see their match rifles, then, they would bring you into their rooms and show you.
Lots of talk on this thread about 'frat boys'. Was this shooter at VT a frat boy?
Was the shooter at Allegheny College School of Law a frat boy?
Was Charles Whitman a frat boy?
Were Dylan Klebold and his accomplice frat boys, or likely 'frat boy' types?
Seems to me this guy was a complete psychopath who festered in the anonymous, soulless, dehumanizing maze known as the dormitory.
His whole lifestyle was a slow-motion 'cry for help', to use the conventional lexicography.
He received no help whatsoever from anyone in his dehumanizing environment.
Moreover, every single adult person who was in contact with this shooter was likely a 'frat-boy' hater and would automatically assume that 'frat-boys' would be irresponsible with guns.
But the reality is the exact opposite of this.
In fact, if this kid had been in a fraternity, he likely would have found friends there who would see to it that he got help.
As it is, his hip non-fraternity co-dwellers, as well as the adults at VT (you know they all hate 'frat-boys' too) basically let him rot. Until he went nuts.
I can't understand how the fraternity people are automatically assumed to be the criminals and sociopaths of college life.
Certainly the news tells us otherwise.