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Allowing firearms on campus can only be a good thing.
EDITORIAL: Guns decrease murder rates
Harvard Study: Gun Control Is Counterproductive
Concealed carry in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Criminals generally want easy targets. Having a gun makes you a harder target. When you're in a population which carries, you are safer even if you don't carry a gun yourself, because a criminal has no way of knowing if you're carrying concealed or not and doesn't want to risk finding out the hard way.
Pistol: In common use at the time? Yes. Is dangerous and unusual? No.
Rifle: In common use at the time? Yes. Is dangerous and unusual? No.
Automatic rifle: In common use at the time? Yes. Is dangerous and unusual? No.
Grenade launcher: In common use at the time? Yes. Is dangerous and unusual? Yes.
Patriot missile battery: In common use at the time? No. Is dangerous and unusual? Yes.
Nuclear warheads: In common use at the time? No. Is dangerous and unusual? Yes.
Tanks are not weapons. Tanks are vehicles weapons can be mounted in, but anyone with enough money to buy one can own one. That doesn't mean you can have a functioning cannon, 50cal machine gun, 2 saw machine guns, or grenades...it means you can ave the tank and the tank only.
You can own a black hawk helicopter, also...doesn't mean you can have the twin mini-guns.
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We're talking about citizens 21 years of age and older, who also have a CCW, carrying a pistol on campus.
I am sure the holophobes will try to scare people into rejecting the idea by claiming that the college campuses will be like the wild west just like they tried to with conceal carry permits in many states.