We know campus carry by card-carrying good guys and gals saves lives, deters violent crime and makes schools safer for everyone.
Sometimes it needs to be reported as news for people to realize the truth.
Colorado Campus Carry: 12 Years, No Mass Shootings, No Crimes by Permit Holders
On April 20, The Washington Post ran a column showing that campus carry has been the law of the land in Colorado since 2003, and the results have not been anything like those currently fighting against campus carry claim it should be.
There have been no mass shootings and, apart from one incident in which a gun was accidentally discharged by a Colorado University employee, there have been no crimes by permit holders.No one was injured in the accidental discharge, and the employee was fired.
The success of campus carry in Colorado is especially good news for women, who are able to level the playing field by being armed and better able to defend their dignity when under sexual attack.
The U.S. Census Bureau conducts in-person interviews with several thousand persons annually, for the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). In 1992-2002, over 2,000 of the persons interviewed disclosed they had been raped or sexually assaulted. Of them, only 26 volunteered that they used a weapon to resist. In none of those 26 cases was the rape completed; in none of the cases did the victim suffer additional injury after she deployed her weapon.
So, in the 26 assaults in which a woman had access to a weapon, she was able to stop the rape and was not further assaulted.
Not mentioned in the article is that Colorado has not suffered any more Columbine-style school massacres since campus carry passed.
Because every social misfit and would be spree killer knows that their little rampage would be cut short by a janitor or a science teacher. Schools in Colorado are no longer disarmed victim zones, chock full of unprotected victims just waiting to be slaughtered by a cowardly misfit wanting to go out in a blaze of glory.
But they said it would be dangerous to have guns in schools! You mean they lied?