Campus carry is NOT new.
University of Kansas police statistics show the number of crimes committed on campus decreased by 13 percent in 2017 compared to 2016 when concealed campus carry was not allowed. Crimes are committed in new locations every day, and no one ever expected a quiet college in Blacksburg, Virginia to become the target of a psychopath’s killing spree. In 2001 alone, 610 murders and 11,659 robberies were reported across college campuses in America. Violent crime happens everywhere and University campuses are not magically exempt from bad things happening but ZERO of these were committed by students with a valid permit on a campus where campus carry was allowed.So the odds of a student permit holder committing a violent act with a gun are zero. You can certainly legally own (and carry one) in same states at 18, eg new Hampshire.
Nevada, Florida, Texas, and Montana are among several states considering bills that would allow concealed weapons on college campuses. Campus carry is NOT new.We now have over a decade of data from states like Utah and Colorado who have been allowing campus carry for tens of thousands of students year after year. Large portions of data in this report were taken from the Department of Education, yet on its website, it offers this cautionary note:Many colleges are mingled in or near busy city blocks with high rates of crime, yet if a crime is committed off of the campus boundary (for example, a student walking from campus to an apartment is accosted and robbed) it is not included.
For a faculty member to think that a heated discussion, poor student grades, office hours, or other young wild student stuff will cause a student to start shooting others is statistically unfounded.A person has to be 21 to ‘lawfully own’ a pistol; how many ‘college students’ are 21 or over? Their state law does protect higher education institutions from monetary liability for the use of handguns. The following was originally published in May 2009.There are two reasons to allow licensed carrying concealed carry of deadly weapons on a college campus. Yes. According to CollegeFactual that percentage is as follows: Colorado – 59.54% | Idaho – 58.37% | Utah – 77.33%So applying those percentages to our state numbers (minus the private schools) we get a total of 365,656.67 students that attend a campus where campus carry is allowed and are of age to obtain a permit in the 3 states of our data set during the fall 2016 semester.Next we have to make a guess as to the percentage of those students who have a permit. History has shown many times that we can't trust our emotions to paint a truthful view of reality.So, professors and other faculty are you willing to look at the data with me?Currently there are 3 states that fully, by statute, allow any adult with a valid concealed carry permit to carry a concealed firearm on any public University campus.
It is much to do about nothing….Barbara you are confusing buying a pistol with owning one.
The statistics found on this website represent alleged criminal offenses reported to campus security authorities and/or local police agencies. This number also does not include crimes that go unreported.Although federal law requires a college to report if a convicted sex offender is living on campus, there are no requirements to inform students about sex offenders living close by.“In San Diego, there are 47 registered sex offenders within a two-mile radius of San Diego State University and five within two miles of the University of California San Diego.Sixty offenders live within a mile of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. I am simply trying to make the case that the data; the raw numbers suggest that the emotional fear of violence that will stem from Concealed Carry on Campus is irrational. © Students for Concealed Carry I have some sympathy for people who emotionally show concern related to guns and concealed carry. To be safe and conservative lets assume that a student is half as likely as the general adult population to obtain a permit which essentially cuts those percentages in half. Colorado has allowed campus carry for the last 28 semesters, Idaho for the last 5 semesters, and Utah for the last 22 semesters (I'm excluding summer and only counting fall and spring semesters).