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Discuss “Guns on campus”

Let?s get some things straight: I don?t own a gun; I have never fired a gun; and I don?t plan on ever doing either.

Every discharge of a firearm is part of a tragedy. Some are based on the harm they cause; others, the harm they prevent. I believe students have the right to protect themselves from harm.

At present, campus policy prevents students from storing or carrying any firearm or deadly weapon on campus except with specific exceptions made by the chief of campus police. There are three basic reasons a student would want to have a weapon on campus. The first is if a student wanted to store a rifle for use in off-campus hunting. The other two are for handguns: attacking and defending. It is understandable that people would be wary of allowing...

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