Campus Carry Doesn’t Make Police Encounters More Dangerous for Young Men of Color

By Justin Stakes

Austin, TX -(AmmoLand.com)- Following years of controversial police shootings across the country, opponents of campus carry have taken to claiming that campus carry will make police encounters more dangerous for students—particularly male students—of color.

This claim ignores the fact that campus carry doesn’t give a racist police officer any more reason to profile a student as a criminal.

Antonia Okafor, Southwest regional director for Students for Concealed Carry, explained, “When a police officer profiles somebody because of the person’s race, the officer isn’t thinking, ‘This person might be a law-abiding citizen who is licensed to carry a handgun’; the officer is thinking, ‘This person might be a criminal who doesn’t care what the law says about carrying a gun or shooting a police officer.’ Because an honor-system-based ‘gun-free’ policy doesn’t change a criminal’s ability to unlawfully carry a gun on campus, the problem of police profiling isn’t affected by campus carry.”

About Students for Concealed Carry:

Students for Concealed Carry (SCC) is a national, non-partisan, grassroots organization comprising college students, faculty, staff, and concerned citizens who …Read the Rest

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