Campaign Calls for Guns off Campuses

Everyone wants a safe educational environment, but we must call into question the idealism expresses by Campaign to keep Guns Off Campus. In a press release, group notes:

“The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus is strongly opposed to legislation to force the carrying of hidden and loaded guns onto campuses. The college age years are among the most volatile periods in a person’s life with the risks of alcohol and drug abuse, suicide, mental health problems and extreme stress. If guns are readily available, it is more likely that these situations will result in serious injury or death.”

We must ask why these risks are so greatly increased? How do you stop a deranged person who lives off campus and owns a gun? By keeping guns out of the hands of everyone else, essentially means that the law-abiding public is open to danger?

Likewise, this group (among others) is sending a misleading message that the “gun lobby” is somehow encouraging people to actually “pack heat” everywhere! This is not the intent, but that is what these groups want the media and public to believe.