true... everyone does not need to be armed. and that is why everyone cannot get a concealed carry permit. people with the permit receive a background check more severe than any other American except for FBI agents. these are the kind of people that are carrying around downtown in restaurants, etc. they are protectors of themselves and for you in the case of an emergency.

I notice that, as usual, there are those who would "feel less safe" knowing that some people on campus are carrying guns. That was precisely the argument VT administrators used. Six months before the VT massacre, they even thanked their state govt for passing the amendment allowing Universities to ban guns on campus, by saying, "Now our students can feel safe again." As the song says, "feelings, nothing more than feelings," but the fact, and the root problem, is that they are NOT safer. The argument is identical to saying you don't want to wear a seatbelt because you might be trapped in your car in an accident. That argument was widely used, and believed, in the 1960's, by those who opposed mandatory seatbelt laws. The fear was quite irrational because all the available data, of which there were a lot, indicated that, while being trapped was theoretically possible, in fact, you were FAR more likely to be saved by a seatbelt than killed by one. In the same way today, the irrational fear that having people carrying concealed guns in your vicinity somehow decreases your safety, is completely contradicted by virtually ALL the available data, of which again, there are a lot. While some sort of untoward event is theoretically possible, the data clearly show that we are FAR safer where CC is allowed than where it is not. Perhaps those who suffer from this irrational fear should examine the data more closely. It is a fact that, all mass shootings in the last 35 years or so, have occurred in, and only in, "gun-free" zones. It is also true that all the states that have enacted CC laws (40 states now have them) have seen decreases in violent crime afterwards, and that CC permit holders are an abnormally law-abiding group, very rarely involved in crimes or gun accidents. No state has ever seen an increase in violent crime, or gun crime, or gun accidents, after passing laws allowing CC. So there is no RATIONAL reason to fear the presence of concealed guns on campus, at least not in the holsters of CC permit holders. And please remember that this protest was not about arming students generally. Students for Concealed Carry on Campus simply advocates not depriving those adults with CC permits, of their right to carry while on campus. This is not the same as arming all (or even many) students. The folks with the guns would be 1) unknown to anyone else, and 2) the same safe, sane folks who are already legally, and secretly, carrying their guns on the street right alongside you, off campus right now. In Ms. Glazner's defense, she is clearly is speaking off the cuff and without having had a chance to investigate the relevant research first. Nevertheless, this issue ultimately comes down to whether someone like Ms. Glazner, has more of a right to FEEL safe than someone else (someone better informed about the issue), does to BE safe.