Students protest campus gun ban by wearing empty holsters to class
25 October 2007Here’s a great story. It almost makes me wish I was still a college student so I could join in the fun.
Students protest campus gun ban – The Daily Collegian Online
Nathaniel Sheetz doesn’t care if you notice the empty gun holster strapped to his right hip this week.That’s the point, he said.
“People who carry concealed weapons go about their daily lives just like anyone else would,”
Sheetz (graduate-industrial engineering) said. “We are trying to show people that just because we might be carrying weapons, that wouldn’t impact how we go about our business.”This week, college students throughout America, organized under Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, will attend classes wearing empty holsters, protesting campus policies that contradict legally, state-issued concealed weapon permits. Sheetz, who promoted this cause through Facebook, fliers and e-mails to campus groups, expects several dozen Penn State participants.
Not allowing licensed concealed carry on campus makes no sense at all. Anyone who is willing to go through the background checks, the fingerprints and the expense to get licensed to carry concealed should be assumed to be a force for good in this world that could be a life saver in a real emergency. And as long as their doing a good job concealing, the other sheep in their class won’t even know, unless there is a real emergency, in which case they will all be thankful there was a gun in the hand of a good guy as well.
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