In response to the Brady Campaign’s marking of the anniversary of the Tuscon shootings, Joe Huffmann produced this video showing a real solution to the problem.
Thanks Joe!
Category: RKBA
The Case for Concealed Carry on College Campuses
My daughter is a third year student at Georgia Tech. In the past year, I can’t count how many robberies have been reported on campus. There was even a rape of a student on campus right before a football game.
As the new legislative session approaches, the time has come to fight to change Georgia law to allow licensed Georgia Weapons License holders to exercise their right to carry concealed on campus.
It won’t be an easy task. Georgia Tech has a stated policy from 2010 advocating leaving the law where it is. But the arguments they list in this policy, as well as the statistics they quote, are taken right from the Brady Campaign, and they are easily refuted.
Here is the heart of the issue: when people hear that we want to allow concealed carry in campus, they immediately assume we want to allow every college student to carry a gun.
But the law guiding concealed carry on Georgia, and in every state that allows it, limits licenses to those 21 years or older. So, students younger than 21 would not be allowed to carry in any case.
In fact, the majority of those who would be eligible to carry concealed on campus would not be students at all, but faculty and staff? How many of them would be carrying guns? Who knows?
A criminal, like the one who shot up the Virginia Tech campus in 2007, doesn’t care about the law. They are are going to break the law in any case, either by robbing someone at gunpoint, or by shooting someone. What does breaking one more law matter to them?
It turns out that the main deterrent to an armed attack on campus, as it is anywhere, is the unknown. The criminal, who doesn’t care about breaking gun laws in the commission of other crimes, does care about being shot in the commission of that crime. And since they don’t know which of their intended victims or bystanders might be able and willing to fight back, they choose not to attempt the crime at all.
Please join me in supporting Students for Concealed Carry on Campus and Georgia Students for Concealed Carry on Campus.
I Humbly Yield the Floor
A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.
Shane (1953)
Every death at the barrel of a gun is a tragedy. Whether an innocent victim is killed by a criminal, or that criminal is stopped by a law abiding citizen, or a group of gang bangers end up shooting each other, the resulting death could have been avoided, if one goes back far enough in the process.
One of the chief failings of the anti-gun crowd is their refusal to assign responsibility in this tragedy to those who are to blame. They choose to believe that, somehow, the gun – the tool – was at fault, and if all guns were eliminated, then the tragedies would cease.
Make no mistake, they will speak of “easy guns” or “illegal guns” or “assault weapons with high capacity clips and a shoulder thing that goes up,” but what they really mean is all guns. Even the recent history of gun control in countries like England and Australia shows that.
Every time I read an anti-gun diatribe, I am tempted to write about it, and cite the truth – that the vast majority of gun deaths are due to criminals. You don’t know how many draft posts I have saved, that are in this vein.
I forget exactly what I was reading today, but it was the same tired claim that “gun violence” could somehow be solved by more gun regulation. All I know is it got me to sounding and acting like Lewis Black – cussing and jabbing my fingers at the screen.
Fortunately, the next blog I read calmed me down. And for that reason, in matters related to who and what is to blame for “gun violence,” I humbly yield the floor to Sean Sorrentino.
Many gun bloggers, like myself, choose to remain somewhat anonymous. For me, it’s because my side passion might interfere in other areas of my business life, where, frankly, it should have no bearing at all.
When you meet Sean, though, he will be wearing a badge in the shape of the state of North Carolina, that says his name, and under that, An NC Gun Blog.
Sean deals frequently with legislators, anti-gunners, and pro-gun people alike, and, as he told me, he wants them to know where he stands.
I salute Sean not only for his forthrightness, but for his blog. The subject of his blog, more often than not, is to show you who the perpetrators of gun crime in North Carolina are, and what they have been up to all their life.
Sean tells you about the criminals and their records in a very civil manner. He doesn’t name names, he doesn’t throw stones. He just shows you the truth.
As a quasi-aside, Sean doesn’t just write about guns, he shoots very well, too. He was my training partner in Knoxville earlier in the year.
So, in lieu of ranting, in the future, I will just point to An NC Gun Blog. Sean says it better than I can.
What We Are Up Against
I was reading my normal morning blog fix today, and I was reminded by Joe Huffman of some statements not so long ago.
This is what we are up against:
I think — you know, we can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles…
Bill Clinton
March 1, 1993And we should — then every community in the country could then start doing major weapon sweeps and then destroying the weapons, not selling them.
Bill Clinton
October 1, 1993Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.
U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden
November 18, 1993Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein
November 18, 1993We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true!. We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!
U.S. Rep. Charles Schumer
November 30, 1993If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in, I would have done it.
Diane Feinstein
February 5, 1995
My family ask me why I get so vociferous when I talk about the Second Amendment and my right to keep and bear arms. This morning I printed these quotes out, so I can let them read it for themselves.
Fill Yer Hands 