PLN #10

For my tenth PLN I read a very interesting article titled "College Students Lobby to Carry guns" by The Denver Post basically telling about how collage students want to be able to carry arms on campus in order to protect themselves. Collage students who feel that they are powerless against against attacks involving guns are attempting to push legislators as well as school administrators to allow them to arm themselves. A thirty year old senior at the University of Denver and a member of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus stated that students at CU-Colorado Springs and CU-Boulder will join in a national demonstration on April 22 through the 25th wearing empty gun holsters. Students hope that this will show that students are defenseless at school.

What Matters: I think what matters from this article is that these students are not thinking this whole situation through. It is very easy to see why these students would want to be armed with all of the recent school shootings, it would probably give most a sense of security. But to me allowing thousands of kids to carry around a weapon is just plain crazy. Students get into fights all of the time, and if they have an armed weapon close by, what is to stop them from using it? Allowing students to carry around weapons would most likely create more havoc and distress than it would take away.

How this Affects Me: This definitely affects me, as well as the rest of the high school and collage students especially since I live in the state of Colorado. If this is somehow passed and allowed I can honestly say I would feel unsafe attending one of those universities. I can not imagine every student on campus walking around with an armed weapon. It would almost encourage destruction and killings. What happens when two or more students get into a heated argument and the guns get pulled out?