Seriously, it's copy and pasted straight from the student handbook
While the law calls for a concealed carry policy, just the thought of someone sitting next to me in the cafeteria with a deadly weapon would make me lose my appetite. It's hard to decide which is more acceptable: an open-carry policy or a concealed policy. Would you want to know if your best friend in class was carrying a gun? Or would you be more afraid at the chance of seeing the black killing machine casually slung into a back pocket?
It's too tiring to argue the same thing over and over. I should have a copy and paste response for copy and paste 'journalism'.
Nicole Jacobsen is a junior journalism and advertising double major.
Well, she's already got her talking points down pat.
Just in case Reasoned Discourse breaks out, here's my comment
"While the law calls for a concealed carry policy, just the thought of someone sitting next to me in the cafeteria with a deadly weapon would make me lose my appetite." Wow, aren't you a sensitive little thing? I suggest then that you stay in school where you're safe (well, the VT students thought they were safe too) from firearm exposure. Out in the real world, millions of Americans carry their firearms with them where ever they go. Oddly, none of the Wild Wild West scenarios people like you envision happen. It's almost like you're afraid of something that never happens. Statistically, police officers are exponentially more inclined to commit a violent crime than CCW holders, yet you probably don't lose your appetite when a cop walks in, do you? Nobody is suggesting we hand out Kimber SIS's with your student handbook, only that those who already show they are some of the most law abiding citizens who have gone through a thorough background check be allowed to protect themselves using the best tools possible regardless of where they are. If you truly want to be a journalist, here's a simple task for you. Instead of just believing what the anti-gun forces tells you, do some research. Find out how many innocent people are shot by accident from CCW holders since you seem to think that's a problem. Now, find out how many cops shoot innocent people. Then, do the same thing for the number of rounds fired vs. hits from CCW holders and police (from memory cops fire upwards of 12 shots for every hit. Go look up CCW's hit ratios). Your fear of random shootings, some drunk kid snapping, etc are all unfounded. Utah allows campus carry and they've yet to have an incident. I'm not saying it won't or can't happen, but the people who go through the effort of obtaining a license aren't generally the kinds of people willing to piss it all away at a frat party.
"While the law calls for a concealed carry policy, just the thought of someone sitting next to me in the cafeteria with a deadly weapon would make me lose my appetite."
Wow, aren't you a sensitive little thing? I suggest then that you stay in school where you're safe (well, the VT students thought they were safe too) from firearm exposure. Out in the real world, millions of Americans carry their firearms with them where ever they go. Oddly, none of the Wild Wild West scenarios people like you envision happen. It's almost like you're afraid of something that never happens.
Statistically, police officers are exponentially more inclined to commit a violent crime than CCW holders, yet you probably don't lose your appetite when a cop walks in, do you?
Nobody is suggesting we hand out Kimber SIS's with your student handbook, only that those who already show they are some of the most law abiding citizens who have gone through a thorough background check be allowed to protect themselves using the best tools possible regardless of where they are.
If you truly want to be a journalist, here's a simple task for you. Instead of just believing what the anti-gun forces tells you, do some research. Find out how many innocent people are shot by accident from CCW holders since you seem to think that's a problem. Now, find out how many cops shoot innocent people. Then, do the same thing for the number of rounds fired vs. hits from CCW holders and police (from memory cops fire upwards of 12 shots for every hit. Go look up CCW's hit ratios).
Your fear of random shootings, some drunk kid snapping, etc are all unfounded. Utah allows campus carry and they've yet to have an incident. I'm not saying it won't or can't happen, but the people who go through the effort of obtaining a license aren't generally the kinds of people willing to piss it all away at a frat party.
Nobody is suggesting we hand out Kimber SIS's with your student handbook
Or would you be more afraid at the chance of seeing the black killing machine casually slung into a back pocket?