The Right to Bear Arms ... on Campus

For reasons cited earlier, I feel that guns and young, often drunken, people still learning how to deal with emotional crisis in a mature fashion are a bad mix. You want safer campuses? Get more well-trained security staff. Put more lighting up. Introduce more emergency call points. Heck, I can even understand the worry about campus shooters, so, sure, give the security guards firearms or emergency access to firearms. Letting the kids bring guns to the school to prevent campus shootings is only likely going to result in more campus shootings.

(For those unfamiliar with an emergency call point, at the University of Victoria, these consist of tall, well lit concrete pillars outfitted with a speaker, microphone, and two large buttons. Pressing the green one lets you talk to an information agent ("Where can I find the Phoenix Building from here?"), whilst pressing the red one (much like a fire alarm) gets you a direct connection to the security office.)