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host: and what is wrong with conservative sympathies? And just to satisfy your curiosity, I come from a middle class family in an urban suburb of southwestern CT, with two strongly pro-democrat parents, and two equally liberal siblings.
I have been responsibly handling firearms since a very young age, and have done everything from instruct safety courses, to coach young shooters, to compete at a division 1 collegiate level.
I attended school initially at the second largest campus in the united states. Many friends already had their pistol permits, and you were hard pressed to find someone who didn't carry at least a small pocket knife on them, with no intention of inflicting any harm upon anyone who crossed their paths.
On the much smaller campus where I spend the majority of my time these days, the use of firearms is the norm. In fact, firearms are such an important part of these people's lives, that even the elementary and secondary schools are given off the first day of buck season. The campus is but a few blocks wide, and while no one on campus houses firearms in their dorms, you can bet that the surrounding homes and apartments are. I can also assure you that a number of these students drink rather heavily, but have yet to be sighted running around on a drunken redneck rampage.
The common factor linking both schools, is that given the opportunity, the vast majority of the permit holders would, with great certainty, exercise the right to carry a firearm on campus.
In fact, I don't even see why this is such a debate. Those who are anti-gun are going to find the possibility entirely absurd, while those who are pro-gun will remain under the notion that those who are responsible enough to own a CC permit will exercise that responsibility in any environment.
Like ottopilot mentioned, it's typically the "power trip" that enables those who have done what they have to do just that. They think they can, therefore, they will. While they may be gods in their own right, the notion that they can exercise their power at will is greatly diminished when others share that same power.
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