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exactly like your statement that anyone who could possibly advocate students carrying on campus is consumed with a idiotic conservative idea?
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no, because i think this idea is insane.
completely, entirely insane.
demonstrating that it might not be seems little more than an exercise in scenario building--for example, it is pretty obvious (from being around) where your arguments in support of this might go, and they'd probably rely on one or another version of the claim that if everyone is strapped that somehow the potential for lethal responses to lethal force would result in a more peaceful overall society. i think that argument fantasy--but even if i didnt think it fantasy, i would still oppose students being able to wander around universities with guns.
another possible claim that you have floated before is a version of the "gun controls anywhere will mean gun controls everywhere, which means that the oppressive state has reduced all of us to slavery"--and even if i agreed with this (which i am ambivalent about, frankly) i would still oppose the idea that university students be allowed to wander around campuses with guns.
but who knows, maybe you've got another tack to develop.
why no go for it rather than wasting time mischaracterizing what i post?
but i am pretty sure that even if i were--against expectations, but hey if i wasnt open to that i wouldnt play here---i would still oppose the idea that students at university should be strapped.
gotta go.