Over the entire State of Colorado is not enough, huh? The thing that really gets me is that you make a base, statistical basis on why it shouldn't be allowed. These are generalized stats aggregated over the populace. So it doesn't matter if it's just Colorado or if it's the whole of the United States. If these are true probabilities for the system, then that's that. Thus if what you say is correct, given the number of students over the decades they have been allowed to carry weapons on Colorado Universities; we would have seen multiple cases of accidents, mishandlings, etc. Colorado isn't some po-dunk little backwards water state with 15 people in it. Every semester 10's of thousands of students come through each of our Universities. Over decades, how many students is that? Why then have we not seen a single incident of what you claim would happen if students were allowed to bring guns? Could we be "lucky", maybe but it's a lot lower probability then say, you being wrong with the dynamics of this system. Perhaps it is I who is right on this matter, that allowing guns in school is actually a null case and will have no real affect on crime or lead to a more or less dangerous campus.
But you don't even want to consider that. You want to say "you're lucky" and "well I think" blah blah blah. It didn't even cross your mind that maybe Colorado isn't as backwoods as you think it is, that we've had A LOT of students come through our university structure over the decades, that this has been allowed, that it produced no effect which is why you generally will not find news articles in it because it in fact produces no net affect and thus no news.
I admit, I see it as a no brainer. Not something that requires much research. But no, Colorado, the entire state, is not enough. It is at the bottom of the list as to where I would expect trouble. Dosen't mean it won't happen one day, but I see Chicago, New York, Dallas, Atlanta, as places more likely to see problmes. Larger urban areas.
And yes, it is early yet. It takes time for these things to be properly investigated. So there is not likley to be much on it
YET.
Look it up. If what you say about these adults, their brain development, blah blah blah is true; you can certainly find news and data about students being accidently shot on campus in Colorado or some form of wild west shoot out in a free speech center. What does the lack of news tell you?
Not much. A search of students accidentally shooting themselves does produce results. How about you look?
Should the students or reality have any say in the matter?
Students don't own, run or hold liability at the school. Nor do they really face much of any kind of saftey concerns that would warrant having a gun.