Preventing school shootings

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While I'm all for people having guns, I just don't see why anyone would want or need one on a college campus. The idea that "I need a gun to feel safe" on a college campus, to me, is a "society of fear" way of thinking. I find that a lot of people fear the worst in the safest of conditions. We don't have rapists and murderers running around campus, and if we did, I think our police force is capable enough to deal with any situation. A gun may make you feel safe, but in a highly populated area such as a dorm, accidents can happen and lives can be taken. And if you don't know how to use a gun, it can be taken away from you and used against you. Not to mention, when you mix the drugs and alcohol so prevalent in college with guns, people will die.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, people should be allowed to buy weapons for self defense, but they shouldn't immediately believe that they are safer or that their purchase was necessary. Tighter gun laws can in no way harm anyone, if it means a life is saved then dont' complain about having to wait another week for your seventh hand gun.

But those who said that gun control is attacking the symptom and not the problem are absolutely right. People are motivated to use guns in a lethal way through the failures of family and society. But to everyone using the classic "shut up you liberal" stance, what has Bush and the Republican party done to help reform society? Pretty much nothing. In fact I'm pretty sure they cut spending on after school programs for inner city kids. No politician is perfect, but don't assume liberals are the worst things for guns.