[monkeycard]

There is a poll on the home page:

"Should college students be allowed to carry guns on campus?"

Choices are Yes and No.

[Long Island Pete]

WOO HOO! I’m going back to college

[SmithL]

NewsChannel 8

Pulse Poll

Should college students be allowed to carry guns on campus?
Yes		55%
No		45%
Total: 1820 votes

[Paleo Conservative]

Everyone at OSU-Tulsa we spoke to about the plan doesn't like it.

I'm sure the journalism students randomly sampled students for their opinions.

[Cobra64]

No poll. Just a comment section, advertising, etc.

[CindyDawg]

What is the difference between an adult carrying a gun at school, the mall, Luby’s , the movies, Church etc.? What makes a campus of adults special?

[MeanGreen2008]

While I support anyone’s right to bear arms, this is not the solution to school violence. The solution is to stop medicating kids for mild behavioral problems. Going off the meds is what makes them go nuts.

[Amendment10]

Why do people ignore that regardless they can send distress calls to police at the speed of light, the police cannot go to a crime scene at the speed of light?

The following link tells of a gun-related incident that took place on a Virginia campus (not VT incident) a few years back. Sadly, the article notes that most reports about the incident "overlooked" that the renegade student was not only disarmed by other students who had locked guns in their vehicles, but that the students disarmed the gun-shooting student before the police arrived at the scene.

http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2007/04/when-mass-killers-meet-armed-resistance.html

Also note that regardless of our 2nd A. protections, the Swiss are the ones who have distinguished themselves as leaders in successfully integrating firearms management into their culture, effectively reducing crime.

http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/articles/guns-crime-swiss.html

[Lion Den Dan]

I sure wish you folks would indicate ibn what state this great event is taking place.

[Greysard]

They already have a lot of security on campus. One example -- push a button on a phone and it immediately connects to police

I'm sure the police would like to write it down in a log that a killer just walked into a room, locked the door and started shooting people one by one. By the time any security is at the scene there would be hardly anyone alive. In such a situation not just minutes matter, but seconds; and how long will it take for a group of officers to cover 2-3 miles of campus roads, enter the building and then locate room 3742A ? As I recall my university years, some rooms were well hidden by architects and generations of administrators. You can't just expect that a generic cop would instantly know where each one out of 10,000 rooms is located.

But the far more valuable effect of allowing all qualified gun owners to carry them on campus is that deranged maniacs will no longer see those campuses as their personal hunting ground. They might as well break into Camp Pendleton or Fort Knox, guns blazing, with about the same results.

[Troubling Times]

Bump! ;-)

[LachlanMinnesota]

When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

Schools are victim disarmament zones. There is no effective right of self-defense at school. You must take it and merely be content with sadness after the fact.