Again, let me propose that if there is momentum at the State level to allow CC permits on campus, and effort should be made, again at the State level, to voluntarily empower CC holders on campus to everyone’s benefit. No reason to even ask the liberal college administration.
That is, the State should also mandate a voluntary pager system to *notify* CC students and faculty if there has been an incident on campus. Once they are paged, they step into a hallway and make a cellphone call to a recorded message from the campus police, with information about the incident.
This accomplishes several things. To start with, most CC students and faculty would be unaware of an incident on campus unless they are notified. But notification gives them precious time to prepare themselves, emotionally, and mechanically, with their weapon.
Second, the call would suggest to them that if they chose to do so, they should find a covered position near the front entrance of their building, to both observe, and be in a safe defensive position. Importantly, not to brandish their weapon, however, so they are not mistaken for the shooter, and certainly not to go hunting for the shooter.
This would provide both intelligence information and some degree of site security, as a covered position near the front of a building would have a good area of observation if the shooter was in the open; it would help protect the unarmed people in the building; and it would help to shorten the duration of the incident.
A lot of CC students and faculty would not be interested in such a system, but some would. And even half a dozen such people on the campus would strongly increase the degree of difficulty for the shooter. The shooter would make his presence known, but the CC holders would be in the shadows ready to strike if needs be.
It would turn a right into an opportunity.
What's sorely missing these days are people who are, or have been, 'near' a gun and aren't put-off by it. Imagine retrieving a pistol from a concealed holster (say, behind the back) in mixed company and laying it on the counter for them to observe (adult show-and-tell, if you will). Some would be aghast, some would go "cool, can I look at it", one might faint. These are not reactions that adorne a free republic but are endemic in slave states.
The right to carry brings with it the opportunity to lessen fears associated with arms among those most unfamiliar. If guns could generate the kind of 'yawn' that displaying say, a drill might, we will be on our way toward what the founders had in mind. But, our 'betters' won't allow it.
I can only ask "why", as it serves no purpose to keep people in the dark as to guns. Crime stats defy the this illogic.
Campus shootings, mall shootings; good thing the flock is as large as it is 'cause, "it probably won't happen to me" seems the message coming from our elite 'leaders'. Which misses the point entirely, which is: no one should be a victim of Johnny Crazy when and if, he goes off his meds. Not a free people, anyway.