Guns Have Already Saved Lives at School

Meredith: I think it's great that in the few examples provided killers were prevented from taking more innocent lives. However, any life taken is a loss. I think it was wrong for you to say "Happily, he was only able to kill two people." It's great that no more were killed, but I don't think it's right to say "happily." I'm sure the families of those to victims weren't looking at the situation in a "happily" kind of way.

Meredith: The truth is, people do stupid things, and they are always going to. That's just how the world is. Also, nobody is suggesting people be allowed to carry guns in any school. Students shouldn't be able to carry them in high school, for example, because they are just not old enough and it is not nessecary. However, college campuses are different. They are open places, almost like little villages. Maybe letting college students carry concealed weapons isn't that bad of an idea. If they can pass the test to carry a concealed weapon out in public, why should it be any different on a college campus? After all, its like a little village of its own.

Disagree

Munroe

Guns Increase the Risk of Violence in Schools

• Claren (Olson)
• Kristie to me, more people with guns means more people that could potentially do harm whether it is intentional or accidental.
• Laura What can happen, not always will. "Guns don't kill people, people kill people".

School Zone Gun Bans Do Not Deter Killers

Meredith: All this talk is about students carrying concealed weapons to protect themselves, but isn't that already someone else's job? Every campus I've ever been to has campus security. Isn't it their RESPONSIBILITY to make sure everyone on campus is safe? Shouldn't they be the people stepping up to protect the students and faculty, not the students?
Allowing students to carry concealed weapons on campus would just tempt them to pull their gun on someone to scare or intimidate them. This alone could increase the number of individual deaths by gun violence on college campuses.
Students have enough on their plates at college with studies and being on their own for the first time. They shouldn't have to be worried about protecting everyone at their school too, especially when that is already someone else's job

• Kelsey 

Drugs and Alcohol

Annalise

Crime Lower in Right-To-Carry States

• Laura  Law abiding citizens should have the right to defend themselves with a firearm.
• Chuck

Suicide and Mental Health Issues 

Meredith: Isn't it true that you have to undergo backgrounds checks, mental testing, and safety courses before you are permitted to carry a concealed weapon? So, how exactly are you suggesting these suicidal and mentally ill students are going to get these guns? Are they going to steal them, or are they just miraculously going to pass all the required checks and courses to get a concealed weapon?

Don’t Allow Anti-Gun Hysteria to Prevail

Meredith: Did anyone ever think to ask students what they want? Students at college are being provided a service; they are paying for the education and everything else they receive. The opinions of students at individual campuses should probably be considered before someone just says,
"Hey, let's let anyone on college apply for a concealed weapons license. So what if they get drunk and do dumb things on the weekend, as long as during the day they're protected right..."

Gun Theft  

Meredith: Okay isn't the point of a concealed weapon to keep it with you incase you need to use it. So why would a firearm just be lying around in a students dorm waiting to be stolen? It wouldn't be.
Another point...If someone really wants a gun they aren't going to have to steal it from a college dorm room. So what if guns aren't allowed on campus. If they really want to do damage, they are just going to go off campus and steal a gun there.

• Laura Anyone that would be silly enough to leave a firearm behind does  not deserve to concealed carry a weapon.  But, I am sure that incidents such as these could be easily avoided because persons who conceal carry a weapon probably carry it in a holster or belt.

Utah Campuses Allow Concealed Firearms

Meredith: Just because allowing students to carry concealed weapons works in Utah doesn't mean it's going to work in every other state.

Meredith: People are different everywhere you go. They have different lifestyles and ways of doing things. So yeah...just because it works in Utah doesn't mean it WON'T work in other states, but it doesn't guarantee that it WILL work in other states either. Because like it or not, it would be different people affected by this new law. No one is the same.

Accidental Shootings 

Kristin

Accidental Shootings

• Laura- Even though that I do think that concealed weapons are a good idea because law abiding citizens will have the ability to protect themselves and others if needed, this claim is a good point to consider, even though accidental shootings are rare.

Remember the Appalachian Law School

• Laura  We must at least give our citizens the chance to protect themselves.  Others have.