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You know, I had a really long post detailing the deficiencies in the logic of arguing for a nation wide policy allowing concealed weapons on campus on the basis of the *possibility* of someone, somewhere, stopping something, at sometime. The possibility is so low in terms of practicality that the only purpose such a law would serve would be to push forward a particular idealogically driven gun ownership agenda that is so transparent it's offensive when applied to this particular scenario.
In caes neither of you realize it, I would caution you from voicing such opinions in a non-anonymous context because it will do more harm to your credibility than anything else. You need to STOP DELUDING yourselves that rationally minded people will agree with you, because if you don't, you'll find yourself on the opposite side of the table from the victims and their families. And I GUARANTEE you do not want to be there, because to the extent that our policies are made in this country, and as poorly thought out as they are, they are often built on the backs of incidents like this to appeal to coalitions of victims and the nation sympethizing with them. And in case you need to be disabused of the notion that they would actually side with you, watch what happens and I suspect that it's far more likely that there will be a push for stricter gun legislation in Virginia.
I would only add that you ought not make the mistake of calling gun-control advocates "anti-gun" and CERTAINLY people who are anti-guns on campus as "anti-gun"! I know heaps of people who are avid gun lovers and users of guns, personally and professionally, who are staunch gun-control advocates.
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