Campus Carry Isn’t Bad for Higher Education; Paranoia About Campus Carry Is

By Justin Stakes

Austin, TX -(AmmoLand.com)- In enlightened modern America, the risk of dying of a shark attack is most frequently referenced in comparison to one’s odds of winning the Powerball lottery, but in the summer of 1975, America’s coastal tourism business took a major hit as a result of the June release of the world’s first summer blockbuster—Jaws.

The risk of dying from a shark attack was just as low then as it is today—in fact, there were no fatal shark attacks in U.S. waters that year—but a cinema-inspired nationwide bout of galeophobia (fear of sharks) had real, negative consequences on the nation afflicted.

In a speech delivered February 4 at the 2016 National Prayer Breakfast, U.S. President Barack Obama said, “The consequences of [fear] can be worse than any outward threat.”

That statement is reflected throughout America’s checkered past, from fear of witchcraft leading to twenty executions in Salem, Mass., to fear of vaccines leading to a resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases. Now, Texas is seeing fear of campus carry take a real, measurable toll on the state’s institutions of higher education. However, just as witches …Read the Rest

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