Proof that college can actually make you dumber

I'm sure you all remember the horrific shooting at Virginia Tech which was carried out by a murderous psychopath and resulted in the deaths of 32 people and the wounding of dozens more. Since those murders took place, some college campuses across the country have given the green light for qualified students to carry concealed firearms with them on campus. Newsweek magazine gives us the details:

Most students carry book bags and laptops to class. Weston Zentner, a 23-year-old senior in business administration at the University of Utah, also takes along a loaded Springfield .45 compact, carefully tucked into a concealed belt holster. "Our campus is pretty safe," he says, "but you never know what's going to happen. I always feel safer when I'm armed."

While most campuses are gun-free, in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois shootings in recent years some students are demanding the right to carry concealed weapons. So far, only a handful of schools in Utah and Colorado allow students to carry firearms, but in more than a dozen states, advocates are pushing for laws compelling schools to allow students with state-issued permits to wear guns. "These students are able to carry everywhere else they go, so why not on campus?" asks Katie Kasprzak, a director of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, an advocacy group that claims more than 30,000 members. "They have a right to defend themselves in the event of an attack." The group has attracted much publicity, including a 2008 protest in which thousands of students across the country wore empty holsters to class to symbolize their "defenselessness."

And now for the reason behind the title to this post. So, you have heard the pro-carry side of the argument. But your humble blogger wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't provide a dissenting argument, also featured in the article. Check out this brilliant argument:

Not all students like the idea of classmates' packing heat. Megan Meadows, a senior at Virginia Tech who lost her best friend in the 2007 shooting, says she's glad nobody in her class had a gun on the day of the tragedy. "I was in a classroom that day, and everyone's nerves were high," she says. "Someone would have gotten hurt." Meadows, a theater and communications major, says she'd refuse to attend a school that included armed students.

Yes, read that again if you have to: "Someone would have gotten hurt." I guess the carnage that actually occurred was not enough for her. My God, how does someone's brain actually operate in this manner? I subscribe to a different view of course. As the famous John Lott book so succinctly puts it, "More Guns, Less Crime."

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