This evening, I watched a CNN Special Investigations Unit documentary on shootings in college and university campuses across the U.S. They mentioned a group on the web called Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, an organization of some 25,000 students, parents and teachers who advocate individuals (twenty-one and older in most states) possessing concealed handgun licenses/concealed carry weapons permits to be given the right to bring their weapons on college/university campuses–a right they have virtually everywhere else.

Personally, I would feel more secure with the knowledge that students and professors at my university campus do not carry any weapons with them whatsoever. But with the brutal shootings in Virginia Tech, Columbine, and Northern Illinois University, and all other places, would students be a lot safer with guns in their backpacks? Or would this just give way to more violence on campuses?