“Honestly, now, does anyone really believe they’re more safe, free and protected by having high-school students and college students all armed?”
That’s crazy talk. Just because you give people the right to have guns doesn’t mean that everyone would be carrying one. I’m all for concealed carry laws. If a non-felon, non-psycho, with no drug or alcohol convictions wants to carry a gun, then that person should be allowed to do it.
Personally, I don’t own any guns, but that is just because I don’t feel personally qualified to carry one. I’d probably be more at risk with a gun — I’d probably end up shooting myself in the foot or something. But people who feel they can handle a gun and have a clean past should be allowed to own them and they should also be allowed to carry them on their person.
Just imagine if a few of those Virginia Tech students had been armed. It might have only been a few people that were killed instead of 32.
I doubt that gun regulations would have stopped the crazy Va. tech guy. I heard he bought his guns in October, so I imagine he would have found a way to obtain his guns no matter what. This wasn’t some spur of the moment thing that could have been stopped with some 5-day waiting law.
As for high-school students having guns, I agree with you. There probably isn’t enough maturity at that age to use a gun responsibly. However, there again, any ban on guns in high schools (unless students have to go through metal detectors) is only going to stop people that obey the ban. The bad guys that want to get guns in school won’t be stopped by a simple ban.
