I contacted my state rep asking him to support this bill.
why would you want people to bring their guns on a college campus?
senator realisticidealist: false. has it occurred to you that most people don't particularly care about carrying a gun? what this does is make it easier for people to start shooting each other. it's ridiculous to say that someone would bring a gun on campus to defend themselves. it's far more likely that potential shooters will do that instead.
this is almost as ridiculous as the argument that gun control makes it more difficult for women to defend themselves from rapists, when everyone knows that the rapists are far more likely to own a gun than the victims and therefore use it to commit a crime.
You seem to presuppose that gun control makes it significantly less likely for those who want to shoot up a college campus to be able to do so. I posit that that is not the case.
That is pretty much what I was saying. Gun control won't stop someone who really wants to shoot up a campus from trying. Gun laws might dissuade a few people who might have wanted to, but so might the knowledge that people may be carrying them for self-defense. Sure, most people won't carry a gun to school, but all it takes is one person carrying one to defend themself to save many lives.
