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thundara  ·  3919 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: When May I Shoot a Student? - NYTimes.com

I suppose that it varies from campus to campus, but most parties of intoxication do not occur on university-owned property. Choosing to CC a gun during your daily routine and at an event where you will be consuming alcohol are two separate decisions, the latter is always discouraged due to safety and legal reasons.

    So encouraging firearms within these groups, based on the knowledge that college kids are more likely to make poor choices, especially when fucked up, doesn't seem like the most educated decision.

I do recognize the liability arguments of allowing firearms onto an organization's property, but let me present you a personal anecdote:

My own housing situation forbids me from bringing a firearm onto the property. In spite of this, the larger organization which houses me has seem multiple rapes and robberies occur, some by gun / knife, others by fist. The robberies were best resolved without a gun. But the guy who beat and raped multiple women? I wish that bastard had been shot.

The house I live in has been broken in to five times in the past two years. Unfortunately, it's just not that easy to secure a building that fifty people go in and out of every day. Fraternity / sorority / university dorm entrances see similar if not greater throughput.

From the property owner's point of view? It's sane. Less bad PR. Less lawsuits.

From the individual's point of view? It sucks. Get a knife. Get a hammer. Get a taser.