A study published in the American Journal of Public Health found that a person carrying a gun is 4. Umpqua Community College allowed campus carry at the time of that campus shooting.
Umpqua Community College was not a gun-free zone at the time of that campus shooting. Campus carry would make encounters with police more dangerous for young men of color. Campus carry has been shown to lead to an increase in sexual assaults. According to a recent study, licensed concealed carry leads to an increase in crime in states that allow it. Return to Arguments — Guns on campus would lead to an escalation in violent crime.
Likewise, no state has seen a resulting increase in gun violence as a result of legalizing concealed carry all 50 states now allow some form of concealed carry , despite the fact that licensed citizens regularly carry concealed handguns in places like office buildings, movie theaters, grocery stores, shopping malls, restaurants, churches, and banks. Return to Arguments — Guns on campus would lead to an increased number of suicides by college students. Because most college students over the age of twenty-one the minimum age to obtain a concealed handgun license in most states live off campus, allowing concealed carry on college campuses would have very little impact on the ability of college students to possess firearms in their homes and, therefore, little to no impact on the overall number of suicides by college students.
NOTE: At the University of Texas—a major university with more than 50, students—a quick comparison of campus housing statistics and concealed handgun licensing statistics reveals that there would likely be no more than five concealed handgun license holders living in on-campus housing.
Return to Arguments — Guns on campus would distract from the learning environment. Concealed handguns would no more distract college students from learning than they currently distract moviegoers from enjoying movies or office workers from doing their jobs. Therefore, statistically speaking, a packed seat movie theater contains between three and nine individuals licensed to carry concealed handguns, and a shopping mall crowded with 1, shoppers contains between 10 and 30 individuals licensed to carry concealed handguns.
To emphasize the point once more, these same students carry responsibly and without distracting others when they go to the movies and malls on the weekends.
What changes when they step onto a college campus? Return to Arguments — Colleges are too crowded to safely allow the carry of concealed weapons. Colleges are no more crowded than movie theaters, office buildings, shopping malls, and numerous other locations where concealed handgun license holders are already allowed to carry concealed handguns.
The widespread passage of shall-issue concealed carry laws has not led to spates of shootings or gun thefts at those locations. Return to Arguments — A dangerous person might jump someone who is carrying a gun, take the gun, and use it to do harm. Even assuming that this hypothetical dangerous person knew that an individual was carrying a concealed handgun, which is unlikely, there are much easier ways for a criminal to acquire a firearm than by assaulting an armed individual.
Return to Arguments — Dorms are notoriously vulnerable to theft. The vulnerability of dorms to theft does not necessitate a campus-wide ban on concealed carry by licensed individuals. There are numerous other options, from community gun lockups to small, private gun safes that can be secured to walls, floors, bed frames, etc. As of spring , SCC has document seven resulting negligent discharges at campus carry colleges:.
All seven incidents appear to have involved unholstered handguns. At least three involved the license holder showing the handgun to a second party, which is never a good idea, and three appear to have been caused by the license holder carrying an unholstered handgun in a pocket or backpack, which is also never a good idea. The increased danger that accompanies unholstering and handling a firearm is one of the reasons SCC vigorously fights proposals such as placing gun lockers outside of classrooms or requiring license holders to empty the chambers of their guns before stepping onto campus.
There is no question that dorm rooms—where licensed residents must occasionally handle their weapons while holstering, unholstering, loading, or unloading them—are at increased risk for negligent discharge.
Because of the increased danger associated with handling an unholstered firearm, license holders living in dorm rooms should be diligent to observe the four basic rules of firearm safety when handling their guns. These four rules offer redundant protections against injury or death.
For example, a license holder who violates rule number three and accidentally pulls the trigger is unlikely to cause injury as long as he or she is observing rules one, two, and four. These incidents are unfortunate; however, given the number of college campuses that allow licensed concealed carry and the length of time for which they have allowed it, this is still an impressive record.
This record, coupled with the fact that not one campus-carry college has reported a resulting violent crime, threat of violence, suicide, or suicide attempt demonstrates that the licensed, concealed carry of handgun can be safely implemented on college campuses. A quick glance at CDC data from the last year for which records are available reveals that individuals between the ages of 21 and 24, the age group most likely to carry concealed handguns on a college campus, accounted for fewer than 70 fatal gun accidents that year, nationwide.
Because the trigger of a properly holstered firearm is not exposed, because modern firearms are designed not to discharge if dropped, and because an applicant for a CHL must in most states pass a training course covering firearm safety, accidental discharges among concealed handgun license holder are extremely rare and represent, at worst, a statistically negligible risk.
SCC feels that it is wrong to deny citizens a right simply because that right is accompanied by a minor risk. According to CDC statistics, a person is five times more likely to accidentally drown, five times more likely to accidentally die in a fire, 29 times more likely to die in an accidental fall, and 32 times more likely to die from accidental poisoning than to die from an accidental gunshot wound. Many people are surprised to learn that 19 of the 32 victims of the Virginia Tech massacre were over the age of 21 the minimum age to obtain a concealed handgun license in Virginia and most other states.
Return to Arguments — Colleges are emotionally volatile environments. Before shall-issue concealed carry laws were passed throughout the United States, opponents claimed that such laws would turn disputes over parking spaces and traffic accidents into shootouts.
This did not prove to be the case. In fact, many of the law enforcement officials have since admitted that they were wrong to oppose concealed carry measures. The same responsible adults—age 21 and above—now asking to be allowed to carry their concealed handguns on college campuses are already allowed to do so virtually everywhere else.
They clearly do not let their emotions get the better of them in other environments; therefore, no less should be expected of them on college campuses. Return to Arguments — The college lifestyle is defined by alcohol and drug abuse. This is NOT a debate about keeping guns out of the hands of college students. Allowing concealed carry on college campuses would not change the rules about who can buy a gun or who can obtain a concealed handgun license.
Then all of a sudden, a man in a mask enters the store and opens fire. What do you do? The better question here is what can you do? If you were a concealed weapons holder, you could take action and protect your family and neighbors from this armed assailant. If a good guy with a gun did not have proper training, he could unintentionally become another bad guy.
Concealed carry has been in news for a while now and is a hot topic. Concealed carry means more guns around us. Those who not paying attention might assume that open concealed carry is something new, something rare, perhaps reckless at best and dangerous at worst, but that is far from the truth. Any citizen with a gun license who does not have a criminal record should be permitted to carry a concealed weapon because it can help keep the user safe, help save and protect lives, and help keep criminals without weapon licenses.
In some states now almost a full year into concealed firearm carry and both the crime and. The arguments against open carry on campus follow the same lines as arguments against concealed carry on campus. Since open carry as a whole is a relatively new subject in the debate about gun control, the statistics used will have to be from the concealed carry studies. While these are two different things, they are fundamentally the same.
The major arguments are that it will increase crime, that the gun could go off on accident and injure someone, a person could also snap and go on a killing. Nevertheless, guns should be permitted for concealed carry on college campuses if the carriers have concealed-carry licenses because mass shootings occur mostly in gun-free zones.
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Kendall, Todd D. Kennedy, D. Piehl, and A. Kercher, Cassandra, David I. As a researcher, I always would like better data on everything. One thing for this particular paper would have been nice to have is just better information about the people who commit crimes who have right-to-carry permits. And the NRA has done quite an effective job in getting laws passed to prevent the release of that information.
They obviously do it because they think it will hurt their image to have right-to-carry permit holders identified as criminals. They just asked me to write a report on what I thought the impact of allowing citizens to have a largely unrestricted right to carry guns outside the home would be.
And so I [referenced] the major findings of the paper in that report and then [was] deposed actually by the NRA and the NRA hired an expert to criticize my views. Whenever you do these analyses there are lots puzzles and surprises. I would have thought that the increase in murder would have been bigger than it was, although I suspect that part of the reason why the increase in murder was not as large as the increase in overall violent crime was that the police are better at restraining murder than they are at restraining overall violent crime.
And the right-to-carry states hired a lot more police after they adopted these laws than other states. But apparently the politicians realized fairly quickly that crime was showing upward pressure in the states that passed right-to-carry laws, and they responded to that by greater increases in police that we saw in the states that did not adopt these laws. For California, do you have any conclusions or projections about right to carry and the lobbying here? And of course many of these right-to-carry states will provide the permit to anyone from anywhere in the country, and so that would then present the problem: that would mean that everyone in California who wanted to carry a gun would suddenly just write to Florida and get a Florida concealed-carry permit and be walking around the streets of Los Angeles or San Francisco with a gun.
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