04-01-2016, 12:21 PM
(04-01-2016, 12:04 PM)Benton Wrote: What makes faculty or staff any more qualified to carry a lethal weapon? Having an art history degree doesn't mean you know basic firearm safety. Being able to explain entropy doesn't give you the ability to pick up a handgun, chamber a round and safely fire it at anything. A firearms course is much more relevant than employment status.
What about licensed concealed carry (which it is honestly a joke to get a permit here in Virginia, you can obtain one without ever handling a firearm), but only for faculty/staff? A lot of what was brought up in the faculty/staff argument was the maturity of a 21-23 year old (under 21 can't own/carry a handgun).
(04-01-2016, 12:05 PM)Bilbo Saggins Wrote: People are so screwy when it comes to stuff like this. A college student is more likely to die by slipping in a bathtub or getting kicked in the head by a donkey than they are to be shot in school. The number of people who die in school shootings in this country is not very high, yet people freak out emotionally as if they are all collectively on some sort of super period. For whatever reason people just love to go crazy while talking about guns and daydream that John Wayne is going to get all of the bad guys if only the law were to get out of the way. It would honestly be more fruitful from a public safety standpoint to campaign for abrasive bathtub floors or safer railings than it would be to try to fix college violence by flooding campuses with guns.
So this made me laugh. This was our second conundrum of the night. The first was, essentially, the recent iPhone situation. In the first we discussed how more people die from slipping in their bathtubs than terrorism (we were talking here in the U.S.) and die from coconuts falling on their heads. One of the faculty members has a specialty in intelligence analysis and had recently read these figures. Anyway, knowing the same was true for school shootings, we started off with the same thing in a (somewhat) joking manner.
