Allowing Guns On Campus Is Asking For A Disaster

Several states are currently dealing with well-organized efforts to loosen regulations prohibiting or limiting the ability to carry firearms on college campuses. As longtime college health professionals, physicians and researchers, we politely but vehemently disagree. More students carrying guns at colleges and universities will lead to significantly more deaths than would be prevented by attempts to stop what are very rare mass attacks or even homicides. So, before the gates of campuses in Texas, Colorado, and other states are opened to students packing heat, here is a textbook lesson for advocates and legislators considering such proposals: more guns on campus is a recipe for "Disaster 101." Read more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-schwartz/disaster-101-guns-on-coll_b_775436.html

Comments

[Rrgrandad]

This article is a knee-jerk reaction. The author uses information about Israeli military personnel, not U.S. citizens, many of whom already have weapons of one sort or another at home. He ignores laws about what age you have to be to own a gun and real world experience on campuses where people with permits already carry guns. Real world statistics are available: http://www.concealedcampus.org/
Librarians, above all, should act on a FACTUAL BASIS! Note also that this article does not address the hypocrisy of allowing legislators, many of whom are as crazy as rabid squirrels, to carry guns anywhere.