Posted August 1, 2017 2:37 pm by Comments

By Kira Davis

Over the past few years, a rash of horrific shootings on college campuses and other vulnerable locales has once again ginned up the gun control crowd and renewed calls for limiting the ability to legally carry in public spaces. In the case of school and college campuses, many are saying that legal weapons in an educational environment are not only harmful to the culture, they are dangerous.

Trinity University student Caitlin O’Shei recently penned an op-ed recently refuting the idea that it is dangerous to allow college students to legally carry while on their campus. O’Shei contends that there is no reason the legal rights of an American citizen should change simply because that citizen resides in an educational environment. The arguments against college students carrying are often couched in concerns about alcohol consumption rates and the poor decision-making skills of young people.

O’Shei is having none of that.

Opponents of campus carry often reference the higher rates of drinking in college as a reason to disarm students. This argument is flawed on multiple levels. First, from a legal perspective; carrying while under the influence is already illegal. Our system should not deprive people of their rights because they belong …Read the Rest

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