[ilovew]

I was thinking about my school. Some of these people are seriously unstable. I certainly wouldn’t want to walk into a classroom with them if they had a gun.

[Armedanddangerous]

Ok folks

For those of us stuck in cubicles..whats the latest on the ID of the shooter, and how many were there?

are they still alive?

[ctdonath2]

You think mere rules stop the seriously unstable from having one?

[RockyTop4GOP]

I was just talking about this with a friend. I'm in grad school in DC, and look at the crime rate here. Campus is pretty lax with security, and this could happen very easily.

Having graduated from a large state-school (30,000 undergrads) and now attending a small liberal arts school (about 8,000 total students), security on most college campuses is really nonexistent. It does make you wonder if concealed weapons should be allowed. DC's gun law is questionable, but even in Knoxville, guns were banned from campus, and UT is a major ag school. I think the vast majority of colleges ban weapons on school property.

[Sgt. Stryker]

What makes you think those unstable classmates aren’t carrying illegally. You do have to go through a process to get a permit to carry. It’s not like you can just go down to WalMart and buy a CCW when you’re picking up your hunting license. There is a reason why I can’t remember an instance when someone that has a carry permit being involved in this type of tragedy. And it’s not old age.

Semper Fi

[Joe Brower]

"I was thinking about my school. Some of these people are seriously unstable. I certainly wouldn’t want to walk into a classroom with them if they had a gun."

State (not to mention Federal) concealed carry requirements mandate enough screening procedures to keep this from happening, as my native state of Florida's own CCW laws can attest. Not everyone can just get a gun, media propaganda nonwithstanding. Concealed-carry licensees have an overall crime rate that's almost non-existant. Much lower than that of the police, incredibly enough.

Regards,