Unless they gate the entrances and exits and place metal detectors everywhere, there is no real way to ban them. All schools ban them. But the person who decides to go down in the history books as a mass-murderer at a school brings in the guns anyway. The thing about rules is that they are only kept by law-abiding people. Murderers don’t care if guns are banned.
Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
Thank you for at least the only REASONABLE retort to my post so far.
I’m like a freakin’ pariah now to all these people who have no clue what I’m about (I consider it libel to be pegged a liberal, when I’m not).
Anyway, of course, your points are all well-taken.
The point of the ban would be that those caught would be punished, at least. At least it would be generally well understood that students aren’t going to have any weapons (and we always talk about GUNS, but there ARE other weapons).
My concern would be these students are largely irresponsible (in general; I’m not talking if they can handle a gun well when sober - and this is no matter what anyone here says to the contrary; I hold to my opinion). They may not have any intention of “mass murdering” in an instant in time, but their foolishness and carelessness - and self-centeredness - can lead to lots of general injuries/deaths. “how dare he look at me funny” - BANG
That’s what I’m afraid would happen.
What’s wrong with a gated, secure, campus entrance? Might be good ideas. To help mitigate the lack of student weapons.
And again, please note not only students are on campus. I mentioned staff, faculty, anyone working there, should have weaponry.