Carrying Guns In College

BACK INTHE GREAT STATE of Arkansas, which, as we previously noted, is demonstrably a bit benighted, a a gunman shot the joint up at a rap concert during a dispute, wounding dozens. And just think, in this state this fall it will be legal to carry a concealed weapon on college campuses, because an extreme right wing state legislature rammed this insanity down the throats of we the people. Won't that be fun? Let the games begin! The great American shooting match. According to my father, my venerable grandfather once said "put a gun in a man's hand, the first thing he wants to do is use it." makes sense to me. You're sitting at the LSU - Arkansas football game, when a bad call totally changes the game, and sets you off like a rocket. hell, I might pull my piece and shoot everybody on the LSU sideline. No, I don't need to be carrying a gun anywhere, anytime, and I'm one of the "good" people. how many shootings will there be across the state the first semester? If I'm a professor, I'm going to be very careful about assigning grades, and careful to pay close attention to the class in class. Seldom if ever does a mass murder get stopped by a good private citizens carrying a concealed weapon. Maybe now such incidents will increase, with heroes coming out of the woodwork to stop crime before it starts. Somehow, you doubt it. What you fear is the current state of the American mind; angry, fearful, narcissistic. I don't want to set foot on a college campus where people are free to carry concealed weapons. I'd be paranoid, afraid somebody might be in a bad mood, and desperate. Human beings do not like to be stared at. Glance at a stranger, and, if you're smart and understand social etiquette, look away quickly. We all tend to do that, but not always. Look a little linger, and you get a cold hard stare in return. If you smile, you might get a smile in return. If you stare at a stranger for ten seconds, you're risking confrontation; you might get in fistfight. We humans don't like to be hunted. Staring is hunting. That's who we are. During the twentieth century, over one hundred million people died in military combat. Long before we were hunters, we were the hunted. During the nineteenth century three hundred thousand people were killed by tigers in India, according to their English overlords. So you can see, we have a long way to go before we learn to get along. We're not likely to learn how to get along with each other much better anytime soon. Well, we can try. We can try to override our hard wired violent nature with our hard wired peaceful, loving, cooperative nature. But can we do it by carrying guns?