Opinion Swinging Toward Campus Carry? (poll)

By Dean Weingarten

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Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- After the recent shooting on campus in Florida, Florida Carry quickly made the case that the campus was a “gun free” or “defenseless victim” zone, and that removing the prohibition on legal guns would make campus safer.  From new4jax.com:

Friday said several lawsuits are pending against Florida universities that refuse to allow students the right to carry weapons in class. In states like Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Oregon and Kansas, Friday said, school shooting statistics are remarkably lower than the rest of the nation.

“Every state that allows law-abiding students to carry guns on campus, every one of those schools has not had a mass shooting since they enacted that rule,” Friday said.

The case for campus carry is seldom allowed full presentation in the old media, but a fair presentation of the argument was given in the news4jax.com article.  The article also includes a poll offering several options.   Online polls are not scientific, but they do measure “intensity” fairly well.   They measure the ratio of people for and against, who are willing to take the time to fill out an online poll.

In the Florida campus carry poll, the results are outside of the norm.  Most second amendment related polls show pro-rights support of from 3-10 to 1 in favor of more freedom.    This online poll shows an astonishing 12 to 1 support for more freedom on campus!

Link to online poll, left side of page

Poll question:

Would allowing guns on college campuses make students safer?

  • I think more people carrying guns on campus would minimize shootings  48%  (1305 votes)
  • Yes, but only people with concealed carry permits should have them at college. – 43% (1182 votes)
  •  Guns should be allowed on campus, but only locked in vehicles. (Current law). – 1% (40 votes)
  •  Only law enforcement personnel should be allowed to carry guns on campus. – 8% (213 votes)

Note that the status quo, that is, the current law, is the least popular, with only 1 percent of the votes.

Coming right after a campus shooting, this is a very interesting result.
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About Dean Weingarten;

Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of constitutional carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and recently retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.

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Chimera

The really sad thing about this subject is that common sense is a variable, with no consistency. Common sense would dictate that you DON’T have Gun-Free Zones because (duh) that’s where all these senseless shootings happen. It is a crime against humanity that it takes a tragedy like a mass shooting for everyone to see the common sense in common sense. When somebody shoves a gun in your face, how many of you are immediately wondering if this A-Hole is a republican or a democrat? See, What Difference Does It Make if he shoots you? Does it matter that he… Read more »