And before anybody starts with “Giving guns to 18 year old beer-swilling frat boys?!?!”, keep in mind that most places you need to be 21 to get a CCW. This means we’re excluding most undergrads (beer swilling or not), and mainly talking about allowing FACULTY and grad students to carry.
Another argument: if we trust them to vote, what’s wrong with trusting them with firearms?
We give 18 year olds full autos in the military, and grenade launchers, SAMS, and artilery.
If this had happened at the University of Missouri at Rolla, I suspect that the perp would have immediately been put down with a deer rifle or an arrow. And that’s a serious drinking school to boot.
“This means we’re excluding most undergrads (beer swilling or not), and mainly talking about allowing FACULTY and grad students to carry.”
Most faculty in todays academia doesn’t know which end the bullet comes out and will, it can be shown, wet themselves and cry at the very sight of a (gasp) handgun.