FR Gun Club: Answers to the Most Common Arguments Against Concealed Carry on College Campuses

Concealed Campus.org ^ | 9/11/2008 | Concealed Campus

[Noumenon]

Let’s see:

Cell phone in one hand, pistol in the other.

Which one stops a rapist faster?

And now the bonus question:

Which one stops them PERMANENTLY?

[Pistolshot]

“When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”

[Pistolshot]

Then sweep your coat or vest aside to revel your carry and say, “Or me?”

NEVER, EVER advertise that you are carrying.

Concealed MEANS concealed and what you suggest in a number of jurisdictions can be construed as 'brandishing', a misdemeanor in some, and a 3rd or 4th class felony in a lot of others.

[sneakers]

Please add me to the list. Right now, the older brother of a co-worker is in trouble for carrying in his back pack on campus. He’s going to school in Iowa (a non-CCW state, I believe?). He’s from Pa. He lives off campus in a very dangerous neighborhood with a very high crime rate.

Perhaps he should not have had it in his backpack, but he’s not a bad guy. He’s the one you’d WANT to be there if there was a bad guy on campus. He could go to jail or, at least, be permanently suspended from school. His family, all responsible gun owners - is just devastated by the whole situation.

[B4Ranch]

How did they learn he was carrying? Be as specific as you can please.

[sneakers]

His brother just said they don’t know, but they have an idea is was an acquaintance. Other than that, he hasn’t given many details. He comes from a Christian home, and just asked for prayers.

[B4Ranch]

Very well thought out arguments and responses. Good Luck!

[Toki]

Wow, great post. I actually wish that our college would allow this. We have hunters come on campus two times a year to cull the deer population.. It wouldn’t be much of a jump...

[X. OTerica]

“An armed society is a polite society.”

Robert Heinlein, Beyond This Horizon (1942)

[MHGinTN]

An armed society is a more polite society.

[MHGinTN]

Man you're fast ... beat me by just two hours. ;^)

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[chicagolady]

Great Pics! A PICTURE is worth a thousand words!!

[chicagolady]

I am on the run today, I am in Washington D.C. This morning I attended a hearing in the Rayburn Building and Families of American Citizens who have lost loved one because illegal aliens killed them testified. I was in tears to hear their storiies. My good friend Peter Gadiel of 9/11 families lost his son in the Twin Towers on 9/11.

He helped set up this meeting. I was so glad to e sitting in the audience giving moral support.

[Slip18]

You did great, Chicagolady. Proud of you!

The only two persons I know who have shot themselves were LEOs. They both shot themselves in the butt whilst getting their firearm that was in their belt behind their waist. Both were just flesh wounds. Little hard to sit down for a while.

[ExSoldier]

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[ExSoldier]

I was reading quickly but did not see the argument that ccw'ers on campus lack the experience needed to respond to a volatile situation effectively without posing more of a danger with their own wildly inaccurate shooting. The obvious counter to this also represents a counter to some of the other arguments: With the number of combat hardened and experienced veterans returning to school on the new GI Bill, a layer of highly trained and experienced citizens represents an additional layer of safety in the classroom. The obvious tired counter argument from the antisis: Yup, they'll snap from Post traumatic Stress Syndrome and become the shooter. Studies show this not to be the case. So we'll trust them to kill the enemy overseas but take away the same implement of destruction stateside? Ridiculous.