In the wake of some mass murderer events over the decades, one can see how some well intentioned people believe this type of legislation would help rather than hurt the peacefulness and safety of campuses.
Unfortunately, I strongly doubt that the results would be at all as hoped.
One would be likely to see numerous violent episodes, not much greater safety, and greatly enhanced militarism and divisiveness, on campuses and off.
I am reminded, Echoes Of The Fifties, to paraphrase DK's recent topic on the 1950s, but I am thinking of the 1850s, and of passages in Nevins, Ordeal, Volume 2, the passages recounting events leading up to the Civil War, in the Territory of Kansas in, I believe, 1856.
They were all advised to come well armed, and they did.
(BUT YOU ALSO HAVE TO RECALL, or be made aware, THAT EVEN FEDERAL CONGRESSMEN BACK THEN WENT AROUND THE CAPITOL ARMED, AND FREQUENTLY REFERRED TO USE OF THEIR WEAPONS TO MAKE A RHETORICAL POINT IN THE HOUSE OR SENATE. That was how it was then.)
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