TO THE EDITOR:
Yesterday, five students were robbed at gunpoint in their suite.
This is a terrifying occurrence. With leg touchers at Mill Creek and armed robberies on Franklin Street, I felt that at least our campus was safe, with its high population density and security systems and all. I didn’t think it was as necessary to carry a concealed weapon on campus for protection. But now, I’m in steadfast agreement with the pro-gun group.
The suspected robbers were not even students. Banning concealed weapons on campus did nothing to prevent this, and in the future it won’t by the very nature that they are concealed. I am sure people, when thinking logically, are entirely more afraid of non-students breaking into their dorm and pointing a (probably stolen or unregistered) gun at them than they are of their intelligent and generally law-abiding peers possibly carrying a concealed weapon for the purpose of defense.
It’s a logical situation: If concealed weapons are against the law, a criminal intending to use one clearly isn’t going to be deterred by another law; at the same time, law-abiding citizens, who would use their guns for good, would not carry their concealed weapons on campus so long as they are illegal.
This seems like the law has an effect opposite of its intention, doesn’t it?
Benjamin Keilman
Senior
Political Science
