{"id":16063,"date":"2016-06-08T13:36:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T18:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=16063"},"modified":"2016-06-08T13:36:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T18:36:58","slug":"armed-citizen-corner-some-really-stupid-arguments-anti-gunners-have-about-campus-carry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/08\/armed-citizen-corner-some-really-stupid-arguments-anti-gunners-have-about-campus-carry\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Citizen Corner: Some Really Stupid Arguments Anti-Gunners Have About Campus Carry"},"content":{"rendered":"

I normally don’t give the “Brainless Katie Couric Anti-Gun Crowd” the time of day, but seeing Campus Carry is an issue near and dear to my heart, here are some of their retarded arguments against Campus Carry and the appropriate logical rebuttals.-SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The concept of allowing those with a concealed carry permit to carry their guns on campus is getting a lot of press lately, mostly because it drives gun-hating academics crazy.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my take on a few of the many anti-gun shibboleths hurled at the idea of campus carry:<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There will be shootings over minor disputes and drunken students shooting up the campus<\/strong>: \u00a0This is likely a case of anti-gunners projecting their own college behavior onto others. \u00a0I smile at this one, because it reminds me of some people I knew in college who are now anti-gun progressives.<\/p>\n

You remember them too?\u00a0 They were the ones who put good times and intoxicants ahead of getting an education.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course, if this view of college students as violent drunks is accurate, it brings into question the concept of making a liberal arts education available to all \u2013 not exactly a progressive line of thought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You won\u2019t be able to hit anything:<\/strong>\u00a0 Neither can the police,<\/a> if you look at their hit percentage.\u00a0 But you don\u2019t have to hit a rapist or mass murderer to stop them.\u00a0 The rapist will usually run away and the mass murderer will often surrender or commit suicide at the first sign of armed resistance.\u00a0 (Terrorists just have to be shot.)<\/p>\n

Although hard numbers are not available, armed citizens hit a fair number of the criminals they shoot at, some say more accurately than police do.\u00a0 Just because gun controllers refuse to practice marksmanship, doesn\u2019t mean that everyone is that foolish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Your gun will be taken away and used against you:<\/strong>\u00a0 This one is mostly directed at women on campus who wish to protect themselves from sexual assault.\u00a0 They don\u2019t know you, but they are sure you aren\u2019t smart or brave enough to defend yourself with a gun.\u00a0 And where is their proof? \u00a0A 2012 paper<\/a> examined over 200 cases of someone being disarmed during a criminal assault and found that it was the criminals whose guns are taken away by a factor of about 20 to 1.<\/p>\n

Those who hate guns are simply projecting their own inadequacy (and sexism) onto others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Everyone will be carrying a gun:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is a silly straw man argument. \u00a0\u00a0Concealed carry permits are available in most states for people over 21 who have a clean criminal record.\u00a0\u00a0 Typically, less than 10% of the adult population holds permits. The percentage will be far lower on campus, where many students are excluded due to their age.\u00a0 Only adults over 21 who are willing to deal with the expense, paperwork, training and testing actually receive permits.<\/p>\n

This filters out people who aren\u2019t reasonably deliberate and thoughtful as well as those who have a history of violence. \u00a0\u00a0It can also take a substantial amount of money, which is in short supply for college students, even for those who don\u2019t spend it on booze.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don\u2019t want vigilantes in my classroom:<\/strong>\u00a0 I saw this tired old epithet in a New York Times column<\/a> by a professor at the University of Texas.\u00a0 If he is going to bring up a Wild West analogy, he should at least know the meaning of the term.\u00a0 \u201cVigilantes\u201d band together in groups to hunt criminals or to seek revenge without legal authority.\u00a0 An individual who simply arms herself for self-defense is not a vigilante by any reasonable definition.<\/p>\n

This professor should be consulting a dictionary<\/a> instead of watching Charles Bronson movies.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The classroom is a place for passionate debates: <\/strong>\u00a0Most of the heated discussions I hear about are pretty one-sided, when leftist professors try to shove their beliefs down the throats<\/a> of a captive audience.\u00a0 This may be why many professors are against legal campus carry.<\/p>\n

While it is highly unlikely that a student would shoot a rabid political science instructor, the miniscule chance of such a fate might make professors act a bit more professionally.\u00a0 They may fear that the good times are coming to an end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Campuses must continue to be gun free zones:<\/strong>\u00a0 As the list of campus shootings and armed rapes proves, campuses are only make believe<\/em> gun free zones.<\/p>\n

Signs don\u2019t keep killers and rapists from bringing guns onto campus, so the whole concept of gun free campuses is a fraud.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If a mass murderer starts shooting people, another person with a gun will just make things worse:\u00a0 <\/strong>This is the most illogical, and just plain asinine, talking point of all. \u00a0\u00a0How could things possibly get worse when a deranged killer is shooting defenseless people at will?<\/p>\n

Remember that a legally armed citizen who is under attack has a huge advantage over a responding police officer.\u00a0 The citizen already knows who the bad guy is, while responding officers need to evaluate and control a large group of people they have never met.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We should allow licensed concealed carry on campus. \u00a0\u00a0Nationwide, we now have over thirteen million licensees without significant problems.\u00a0 It works everywhere else and if the hysterical predictions do come true, it is easily reversed.\u00a0 Over time, we will see that campus carry is really another non-issue that doesn\u2019t warrant this emotional response from academics.<\/p>\n

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They may fear guns, but what they fear even more is being proven wrong.<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the Original Article at Ammo-Land<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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