Dude, I don't want to deny you your right to own a gun, and to keep it in your apartment. I do want to keep you from bringing that gun onto school grounds, regardless of whether you own it legally or not. School grounds are not the place for guns.
Say these two start shooting an hit other students, but someone who is licensed and trained to carry had his on him killed both of them before anyone else could be hurt, still think guns are a bad idea? How's taking guns from honest people going to stop those who want to break the law from getting them. Ask Chicago how their laws are working out?
Yes, guns on campus are a bad idea.
The slight possibility that your situation comes to fruiting does not mitigate the much larger possibility that A) either that bystander also shoots and harms innocent people in crossfire, and B) that allowing guns on campus would raise the opportunity for
other gun violence on campus.
Again, I'm not advocating taking guns away from you. You can keep your ****nal in your house, and you can use it on your own property or at a gun range or at your hunting camp. But there is not effing way that you can convince me that allowing students to have guns on campus is a good idea. That's simply insane.
Gun violence on college campuses happens very infrequently in relation to the general public. Look at this instance--they basically made a big deal about it because gun violence on FSU's campus is so freaking rare. But there sure is a higher rate of gun violence within the larger city of Tallahassee. So the fact that that gun violence rarely crosses onto campus is, in part, because guns are not allowed on campus.
If you put more guns on campus, you increase the chance that something can go wrong, that someone who's usually a level-headed and law-abiding kid gets a little too drunk one night and shoots someone because he's ****ed that his g/f is cheating on him with a guy in another dorm, or gets ****ed that his professor gave him a bad grade, or whatever. Not only do you increase the potential for purposeful actions using a gun, you also increase the potential for accidents involving a gun...accidental discharges when a guy is cleaning his piece in his dorm room, or accidental shootings when guys get to horsing around, or whatever. You also increase the chance that someone will steal that firearm; that a kid's roommate steals the gun, or that someone else who happens to be in the room for a party or whatever picks it up.
Basically, you introduce a LOT of possibilities for dangerous things to occur that don't normally exist without guns on campus.
