Sigh...
I started to write an empassioned plea for logic and common sense, but became discouraged about halfway through. Just cannot bring myself to complete it. My head is too bloody (from beating against the wall).
I liked this comment:
" has everyone gone nuts?!?!?! no students should NOT be able to carry guns on campus. ... It only takes one mentally unstable person with a gun to cause death, destruction, and grief for many, many people. "
So true. So, just maybe the presence of 2-3 mentally stable people with guns and the willingness to intervene will save you and others. Prohibiting responsible, law-abiding people from carrying their weapons deprives them of the ability to adequately defend themselves from others with a different purpose in mind.
Why do the anti-gun groups insist that this be regulated or addressed by ordinance rather than using the same methods used for repealing prohibition, granting women the vote, eliminating discrimination and so on? Simply because they say it is too important to trust to such a long and arduous process. Never mind that this was why the Founding Fathers setup the process for change that way in the first place. Never mind that in 40 years of attempts to "control guns" the violence has grown worse where they have enacted restrictive ordinances. Never mind that there is evidence that returning to the original meaning of the 2A reverses trends and saves lives. The truth is, they don't trust the governed to make a considered decision as to the applicability of the Second Amendment.