Gun Free Zone on College Campus

Let me start out by stating that I am not making the argument that are country should abandon being a republic nation and adopt a true democracy as are government. But your argument that “the minority's rights should be protected from the majority, by a list of individual rights...and one of those rights, is the right to keep and bear arms” is fundamentally flawed. First off, if you are going to refer to the 2nd amendment you should present it in it's entirety; “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” As one can clearly see, the right to keep and bear arms as it was written was originally meant to insure that a well' regulated militia was not unarmed not . In fact it wasn't until recently that the nation even recognized the right to keep and bear arms as a individual right that applied to all. It was only in 2008 that the Supreme Court ruled that the constitution guaranteed to every American a personal right to bear arms. In the case District of Columbia Versus Heller, in which a security officer in a government building sued the government of Washington, D.C., over a law that prevented him from legally owning a handgun. Heller won. ( http://scholar.google.com... )But up until then it was never a fundamental right ensured to every citizen. Two years later in the McDonald v. Chicago case the Supreme Court ruled that every state in the union must protect this right.( http://scholar.google.com... ) But even then they did not go so far as to state that it is a constitutional right for a American to carry a gun anywhere, so long as they have a license. All it did was ensure that a person had the right to bear arms, particularity in there own homes. This was done intentionally because we do live in a republic nation where the national government can not create one-size-fits-all solutions to national problems. States, cities, all the way down to individuals are allowed to decide how much or how little they want to extend a individual right, so long as they are not infringing the basic constitutional right itself. Let me also be clear that most states are creating policies that are in favor of gun right. But that does not mean the rights of the minority of those that don’t should be ignored.To another point there is a hypocrisy in arguing that the rights of the minority's must be protected from the majority when the evidence shows us different. Over 40 state constitutions do in fact protect a right to bear arms. Furthermore, following the 2008 Supreme Court case and the McDonald case that came two years later, we now live in a nation where the right to bear arms is now defined as a guaranteed right to “all” Americans. So where then exactly does a public universities right to allow guns on campus infringe on your right? If you are going to make the argument that the rights of minorities need to be protected from the majority you cannot then argue the rights of the states, cities, and now public universities should not be protected when choosing whether or not they want to extend upon a constitutional right. By forcing all public universities to follow a “one-size-fits-all” policy you have taken away the rights of those who don't feel the same way towards guns as you. My final point would be to state that my opponents example of Amanda Collins, although tragic and horrifying, the fact is to say that “had she have been able to defend herself with...(a firearm) she would have prevented [the] rape, and possibly have saved Brianna's life” is nothing more than speculation. Should of, would of, could of is not a concrete logical argument. Who's to say that even having a gun would prove useful when the offender already has the victim at gunpoint? That being said I thought I should give an example of my own. When the mentally disturbed community college student who shot an Arizona congresswoman and killed six people in January fired 32 bullets in 15 seconds. After unarmed bystanders wrestled him down and took his gun, a man with a concealed weapon burst on the scene and almost shot one of the good Samaritans by mistake. (http://www.slate.com... )