Posted: 11/21/2007 10:30:46 AM EDT
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try this link. . . thought you all might find this as interesting as i did. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071121/ap_on_re_us/guns_on_campus glad to see them standing up for this, i would if i were still in college. |
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It doesn't matter if you trust them. If they have a CCW they have met the requirements of the state and therefore should be allowed to carry. If they are that dumb, they will do something to get their CCW revoked. No matter how much we may hate it we cannot select who the "right" people are to exercise this right. That makes us just like the anti-gunners we oppose. |
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You realize this logic can be applied to all aspects of the gun debate and is used by our opposition. It is disheartening when I see people in the firearms community use emotional arguments to say some kind of restraint on the RKBA is justified. Universally, when people say they don't trust others with guns in certain situations it means they really don't trust themselves with guns in those situations. I trust myself carrying a gun anywhere and everywhere, so I have to trust my fellow citizens. I don't see educational institutions as some how uniquely different from any other place I carry on a daily basis. I don't think most people who have gone to the trouble to get a CCW, even 21 year old college students, are going to act inappropriately with it. The statistics prove this. Furthermore I don't think that most people would act inappropriately with firearms if no permit is required to carry (as one can do in AZ in your vehicle or openly). |
I know a lot of people who I don't "trust" with a gun...most of them elitists who think that the unwashed masses shouldn't have firearms. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms fortunately doesn't have a "needs" or "proficiency" aspect to make it a right...just as the right to vote doesn't require that someone know how to read, or be a landowner, or be white. If they have a CCW, they should be allowed, period. I would even further open it up to anyone who can lawfully carry a firearm, however in Texas, this is pretty much relegated to those with CHPs. TimW Phoenix |
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Wow. I can't stand people who say, "I wouldn't let just anyone run around with a gun", as if, after ccw is legalized on college campuses, every 17 year old kid will have an AK in his backpack and professors will tote wheelguns and drill anyone who talks back. In Colorado, about 1 in 150 people have a ccw permit. I see no reason that number would somehow skyrocket among 21yo college students. I don't have a permit. I open carry. |