Arizona House passes law allowing students to carry guns on college campuses

[ShyGuyInChicago]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110408/ts_yblog_thelookout/arizona-house-passes-law-allowing-students-to-carry-guns-on-college-campuses?cmp=fb

Arizona has been in the spotlight of late, between the shootings in Tucson and being the center of the nation's immigration debate, and it doesn't appear to be shying away from further controversy: The state's GOP dominated House passed a bill last night that would allow college students to carry open or concealed firearms on campus.
"We're allowing people to defend themselves," state Rep. David Gowan, a supporter of the bill, told Reuters. "The purpose of carrying a gun with you is to defend yourself against that aggressor."
The bill's supporters argue that restricting students' ability to carry guns on school property was a violation of their 2nd Amendment rights. They also say allowing guns on campus would prevent mass shootings like the one which took the lives of 32 students and faculty at Virginia Tech in 2007.
The bill now goes to Governor Jan Brewer, a fierce gun proponent, for signing, though she hasn't indicated if she intends to do so. If enacted into law, Arizona would join Utah as the only states to green light guns on university campuses.

[deadpie]

This is fucking dumb. And all that bullshit saying they can "protect themselves" now is probably going to end in more people getting hurt. I wouldn't be surprised to here if there's a shooting or accidental murder on those campuses now.

And I like how people make school shootings sound so large like as if they happened all the time when in fact you're safer in a school then many other places. The only reason those stories get so big is because that type of shit barely ever happens.

[Sage]

Well, I know where I'm never going to dare attending university now, then.

[Iron Man]

This seems dumb, but, what could go wrong? It is just a campus full of armed students. Possibly the smartest idea conceived by the minds of the people who took away constitutional rights from illegal immigrants. On a serious note: No offence, but I think they are fucked in the head.

[Continuum]

"The purpose of carrying a gun with you is to defend yourself against that aggressor."

http://forum.i3d.net/attachments/offtopic-english/943182047d1249721477-happy-birthday-frank-facepalm.jpg

So, is that how we all use a gun? Just to defend? You have Armed students, and you won't possibly expect somebody using it offensively?

Goddamn. Now I know how American Politicians reason in law-making.

[Sith Lord 13]

Outlaw guns and only criminals will have them. Outlawing guns on campus doesn't keep those who wish to go on these rampages from bringing a gun. It only keeps students from being able to defend themselves in the even of a rampage like that.

[UnknownError]

Lololol wtf? Seriously?

[Memory]

Lul, first police searching potential illegal immigrants whenever they want then this. Arizona is doing it wrong.

[jason_smitty]

thats really stupid, armed and drunk at the frat party

[Sith Lord 13]

thats really stupid, armed and drunk at the frat party

Frat parties are, or at least should be, off campus. Bringing a gun to a frat party would have nothing to do with this change.

[Magus]

Wow. Now I know where to go post-schooling. Arizona! Here I come!

http://destination360.com/north-america/us/arizona/images/red-rocks.jpg

Man, getting stoned in those hills, it's like a dream came true(I actually dreamt about it, sleeping dream).

And let loose my middle-eastern "hidden anger" with a Klash.

[Infidelitas]

And they wonder why so many american schools have shootouts?

[Sage]

It only keeps students from being able to defend themselves in the even of a rampage like that.

When you have multiple students firing guns, it becomes increasingly difficult to tell who was the aggressor and who is trying to stop them. It's a clusterfuck waiting to happen. As well, many people would feel very uncomfortable being on a campus with a great number of armed peers- I, and many other people I imagine- are never going to consider Arizona as a good place to study now.

[Kahn]

And they wonder why so many american schools have shootouts?

You treat it like school shootings are an epidemic. They're occasional, and unfortunate, but it's not to the point where we need to be frightened for our lives.