Ryan ChartrandI can see it now. A guy walks into class with a gun. Someone shouts “he’s got a gun!” Everyone draws.
Now what?
The problem is, when everyone’s armed, who’s dangerous? When anyone can shoot you, isn’t everyone a threat?
Last week my teacher said, as he read Brian Eller’s column, “I know my interest in teaching would go way down if I knew the people across from me were armed.”
The sad fact is that no matter how hard gun advocacy groups work to ignore it, a gun in the home is still 46 times more likely to kill a member of the household than an intruder.
If we really need protection, why aren’t the police doing it? I think we’re actually quite safe here, especially after the way the police handled that gun scare last quarter.
Society is based on trust of others, and while that does carry a little inherent risk, I, for one, am glad to see that over 99.99 percent of the people out there seem to be more than deserving of that trust.
Should we really be embracing rather extreme solutions in fear of those pitiful few?
Oh, and Eller, the violent crime rate did in fact decline after the introduction of the Brady Bill. In fact, crime rates declined every year between its introduction and its expiration. And in case you’re wondering, it’s been going up since.
Troy Kuersten
Aerospace engineering/physics senior