The Northern Virginia Daily is reporting that Delegate Todd Gilbert has introduced legislation which would prevent public colleges from banning gun on campus. And just as they have before every other CCW law has passed, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership is predicting the hallways will run red with blood and stuff.
Of their more absurd claims, Ahab and SayUncle smack down the idea that Cho would have gotten a permit before killing thirty two people (as if the lack of permit stopped him), and Sebastian takes them to task for the idea that all college students are drunken murder suspects in waiting. They pretty much have that covered, so instead of adding a “x2,” I’ll point and laugh at this:
College students often drink heavily and sometimes use illegal drugs and engage in other risky behavior, Siebel said. A number of college students also attempt suicide.
“If you introduce guns into that setting, you’re going to wind up with more dead college students,” he said. Nor will requiring permits to carry on campus keep alcohol and guns separated.
Um, guys, heavy drinking and drug use generally take place off campus. You know, the places where people are already allowed to carry. So unless universities have started offering Beer Bong 101 courses, or have chemistry labs for cooking crack, guns won’t be “introduced” into settings filled with alcohol or whatever. The very nature of a classroom setting would, by default, “keep alcohol and guns separated.”
It seems Delegate Gilbert figured this out too, and asked the following question in the NVDaily article:
“If they’re gun owners already, if they’re carrying concealed already, and if they’re drinking already — which I assume, according to the Brady Campaign that all our students are drunken idiots — then where are the instances right now of drunken students shooting up their apartments, or going out into the parking lot and getting into gunfights with people?”
Excellent question sir. But of course they won’t be able to answer it because it has never happened..