Students for Conceal Carry On Campus is gaining major momentum after the Cho Massacre at Virgnia Tech this past spring. There are these interesting paragraphs toward the end:
But advocates pushing for the campus concealed carry right say it’s not just incidents like the one at Virginia Tech that create concern.
Campuses in higher-crime urban neighborhoods also pose risks for students, said Michael Flitcraft, a 23-year-old mechanical engineering student at the University of Cincinnati.
He argues, like most gun rights advocates, that weapons-free regulations only deter law-abiding students, not thugs or mentally ill shooters.
This writer had a college roommate that was from the Cincinnati area, and in the mid-1990s, and probably still, the University of Cincinnati is in such a bad neighborhood that pizza delivery places won’t even deliver there. The campus might be okay, but getting there evidently requires going through some serious ghetto. Since the links between pizza and college is so strong that when archaeologists of the future start digging in the areas where American universities used to be, that they’ll hit the decomposing pizza boxes before they unearth actual structures, that tells you how dangerous the surrounding areas are for the restaurants to write off the money machine.
St. Louis University has gotten a lot of bad publicity lately for on- and near-campus violent crimes.
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