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Originally Posted by archetypal fool
1. Well, since they arrested him and made a huge deal about it, I'd assume he broke some law. He was parked inside the school, and it's illegal to posses a gun(s) within the school. Besides, I don't know about you, and correct me if I'm wrong, but the average gun owner doesn't take his gun(s), drive to a local university, park inside, put them in plain sight (e.i, on the passenger seat), loaded and ready to fire, and then go to sleep. I don't see any possible chain of events which would account for this odd behavior, so forgive me for being troubled by this.
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You can be troubled by it all you wish, but the law is such that if a person is in his/her own vehicle, whether on college grounds or public school grounds, then he/she is legally allowed to posess a weapon in that vehicle. Now, just because that person was arrested doesn't mean anything. A cop can arrest you for anything they choose and let the court system sort it out. The big deal was simply because of the VT tragedy. I carry mine everyday when I drop my kids off or pick them up so simply having a gun in the car really doesn't mean anything. This person may have simply been looking for a quiet place to rest, but we don't really know that for sure, do we?
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Originally Posted by archetypal fool
2. Exactly. Assuming 14M adult Floridians, if ,say, 500K own guns, that's 3.6% of the adult population. Assuming it becomes legal to bring firearms to campus, and this same percentage finds itself within my university (though unlikely), where, at any given moment, there are ~5K students and faculty present, that's 180 armed peoples. I don't know about you, but I feel O.K. with that number, considering the size of our campus. And just like all the gun advocates here, I assume if you go through the trouble of buying a gun and registering for a CCW, then you're responsible and also spend time at the range practicing, in which case, I trust that you're responsible with a gun, so I don't expect you to whip it out when a cashier overcharges you accidentally, for example.
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Now that is a completely suitable and respectable position to take. 
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