“(Personally, I am for campus bans on undergrad student guns generally, because I think stupid accidents from immature students are far more likely than a wacko acting out.)”
Oh really? I can’t seem to recall any of the accidental campus shootings you seem so fearful of. Care to state your statistical basis for this? Or when you say you “think” so, are you really meaning you “feel” so?
The 2nd Ammendment’s protections apply to all of us. Not just to those whom you deem worthy.
This really is a moot point.
I think you need to be 21 to own a handgun and at least that for a ccw.
Most 21 year olds are not freshmen.
Fearful? No, I just think that undergrad’s tend to be very immature and DRINK a HELL of alot. They are a huge majority on campus and they tend to be in large enclaves all alone without any “outside” influence.
No stats, just surmising. (And that is THINKING, based on admittedly few observations over some years; but it is not just “feeling”.)
And I’m not interested in disarming every single person. I think higher students and faculty and staff should all be allowed, mostly to balance if this kind of psycho thing happens.
But if the campus wants to allow everyone to be armed - se la vie. I’m not that upset about it. I just think they’ll regret it - the likelihood of general day-to-day problems is greater than ever having a homicidal maniac show up and blow everyone to pieces.
OTOH, I just now find out it was only the last 5 years or so that VA banned guns for anyone on campus (not sure of policy before that, except now noone is allowed). So, it’s very possible before that, few mishaps were happening.
As for your comment about “ALL of us” - I doubt that. People here are clamoring for more gun control for nutcases like Cho. So I guess the class of “possibly unstable” doesn’t count in your 2A protections.