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Originally Posted by worth
Perhaps if one of the kids in the VT shooting was allowed to carry a legal concealed weapon,
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"If one of the kids had a handgun this might not have been so bad". I don't mean to put words in your mouth, but that is what you are saying.
Allowing college kids to carry guns on campus would lead to a lot more than 32 deaths. College kids are crazy. They drink a lot, take drugs, get dumped by their girlfriends, cheat on their boyfriends, suffer from a lot of stress, and to top it all off, half of them are still teenagers. They'd be killing each other all the time if they were allowed to walk around with guns in their backpack.
I don't care how long Freshman Phil was in the boyscouts or how old he was when Pappy taught him how to shoot bottles, but when he learns his gal has been nailing the res floor supervisor for half a semester, he's going to be kind of pissed off. Throw in a failed chem test,a couple Keystones, some Jagermeister and a Smith & Wesson, you just know someone is going to get whacked.
This is a terrible tragedy, but the odds of something like this happening are extremely small. Preparing for it by letting some students carry guns is way overboard and would lead to a lot more trouble than it would prevent.
It'd be like visiting New York and wearing a motorcycle helmet the whole time because someone might drop a penny off the Empire State Building. It's too much, and it would ruin the experience.