I get emails nearly every weekend about robberies, rapes and the like on incidents occurring in and around Georgia Tech. By Federal Law, they are required to email parents of attending students there; they also notify faculty and employees.
The campus has grown very much in the last couple of decades. It’s facilities now extend from west of the downtown connector to the east side (even westward in areas formerly industrial - and dangerous.
In just looking at the reports, the students have run the gauntlet virtually every day. Those misfortunate, or unwitting enough to be doing this at night are prime targets.
So far, most of the incidents have been robberies, but there have been rapes and beatings. It is only a matter of time for worse.
The feral inhabitants of the area would take a different view of the risk involved if the students allowed to protect themselves.
It has been demonstrated that by arming honest people in poor neighborhoods it strongly drives down the level of crime there.
That being said, if contributions or fund raising or a raffle could raise just $10,000, it could buy 50 - $150 .22LR pistols and a $10 box of ammo for each pistol, as well as cover the taxes. And it would also pay for each pistol to be engraved “Not for Resale. Property of (organization). If found, return to (organization) for a reward.”
Every block of say 200 houses, with a gun in on average 1 in 4 of them, would then represent a significant “buffer” against crime. Apartment blocks would need even fewer guns to strongly improve security.
And there is redundancy here. If students can carry on campus, it means that both the campus and the student residence neighborhoods are safer.