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Guns on Campus
April 17, 2007
After yesterday's tragedy at Virginia Tech I started to ponder the weapon's possession, as a form of self-defense, policy at Universities.
If a dude is walking around with a gun, and I was a student, would I be able to protect myself by using deadly force.
I wonder if anyone at VT had the opportunity to do so.
I wonder if something like this, God forbid, happened at MSU, if someone could.
The logical way of thinking is that guns on campus, even if they are for self-defense is a bad, bad idea.
But is it?
We live in a crazy world. Students are usually at rope's end anyways. Grades, social pressures, possibly athletics cause students to go off the deep end. You never know what will kick a person into suicidal overdrive.
A student with a gun on campus at MSU will be kicked out of school.
Now that I have a family, I've kicked around the idea with the wife of owning a gun. I really don't want to think about using it if I had to, but it's almost a sense of security that a guard dog doesn't offer.
You can't have a guard dog, or dogs for that matter, at campus. But what would have to happen for the state to approve students owning weapons on campus.
If it ever came to that in American society, I don't think an institution of higher learning would exist - at all.
Posted by Clayton Hein at 3:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
