College students get caught with all sorts of things they're not supposed to have -- alcohol, drugs, plagiarized papers... And up until now, guns would have been considered contraband, too. But at least seven states are currently considering revised policies that would allow professors and/or students to carry licensed firearms on campus. That's right: guns on campus. Whatever side of the issue you favor, it seems like there are some clearer risk vs. reward policies that states should amend first. Here are five.
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Ayn Rand
Living in a college dorm means living in close proximity to a lot of other people, under the jurisdiction of the school who bears some liability when things happen. Additionally, college students are not likely to carry an insurance policy that covers others' property in the case of a fire or waterbed leak; especially if it impacts the property of 100 other students...
Even in the case of snowballs, I would imagine that there have been liability issues as the school is to some degree liable for the property as well.
The point is that most of these rules came about for a reason; often that reason is a hefty lawsuit. Which do you suppose is more likely: that some grouchy administrator just hates bubbles for the sake of hating them, or a commercial bubble machine overflowed causing tens of thousands of dollars of damage to students' property and the school was then sued?
This has NOTHING to do with things like the Bill of Rights; when you sign up for school and live in the dorms, you are handed a rule book. When you sign your name on the agreement, you are signing a contract. If you don't like the rules, don't attend, it's that simple.
CCW Certification tests are nothing more than 'common sense' multiple choice tests that any GED student could pass.
The fee is negligible when compared to the price of most firearms.
Lack of a criminal record != law abiding citizen. All it means is they haven't been caught yet.
Translation: CCW permits mean absolutely nothing except that someone went through the trouble to make sure they didn't get arrested until -after- they shoot someone.
Driver's tests are things that ANYBODY can pass, and more deaths are due to automobile incidents every year than firearm related incidents.
So since the fee isn't high enough, it doesn't count?
Lack of a criminal record does equal law abiding citizen. In this country, we have that pesky "innocent until proven guilty" thing. It comes in especially handy when the person hasn't done anything wrong. But it's nice to see that you hold your fellow citizens in such high esteem.
Oh, and people who go through the trouble to get their CCW permit aren't going to just randomly start shooting people. Why go through the trouble to not break the law in just carrying the firearm, to break the law by shooting someone? The holes in your logic are big enough to drive a truck through. Following your logic, nobody should be issued a drivers license because all that means is they went through the trouble to get a license and be legal before they sped, drove druck, broke curfew, etc. Oh, and the fee to get a license renewed? Extremely negligible when compared to the vehicle. Gee, looks like nobody should be driving either right? And think, that's not even protected in our Constitution. Thanks for playing.
Guys and gals chewing on ramen noodles because that's all they can afford won't be shelling out 500 for a gun too often.
Geometric Methods for Stability of Nonlinear Elastic Thin Shells
by Jordanka Ivanova, Franco Pastrone
Hardcover - October 2001
List price: $219.00
Yeah, college students could almost never scrape together enough money for a gun...
Pornography.
Evolutionary Studies Text Books.
Other Constituionally protected products with undisputed negative consequences to society:
Alcohol.
Tobacco.
Interesting to see where some people draw their lines.