College campuses should allow students to carry guns for protection.

"A new study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, "nearly half of America's 5.4 million full-time college students abuse drugs or drink alcohol on binges at least once a month." For college gun owners, the rate of binge drinking is even higher – two-thirds." - Brian J. Siebel (2007) You say that only the responsible kids, who know how to use a gun properly, are the ones who are going to bring guns to college- which is wrong –but these seem to be the people who are going out and getting high or drunk most often. Am I missing something, or does this seem very dangerous? Maybe they could shoot with accuracy when they're sober, but are they going to use the guns responsibly if they don't have a good grip on reality? I am by no means suggesting that gun owners are drunk all of the time or that all gun owners use illegal materials at all, but I'm just saying that the ones that do will definitely be a great danger to themselves and the people around them. But I don't believe that only gun-enthusiasts will bring guns to school. Some students will in fact take guns to school without knowing how to use one. For example, a father gives his daughter a gun in order for her to be protected, and she now has a gun without having any experience shooting one. This is only an example; I believe a lot of people would take guns to their school in order to be protected. Even if someone has experience with guns; is shooting a target the same as shooting a human being? The answer is obviously no. Someone could have really good aim and be a very good shooter, but not be able to kill a man. This would pose as a serious problem in a crisis situation. The man would instantly be made a target if he was seen with a gun. I don't understand how an armory would be safe at all. It just seems like a place to get easy access to weapons if one wanted to create a crisis. Even if there is a guard; what is he going to do? Either the guard lets everyone who wants a gun have one, or he doesn't let anyone have a gun unless instructed by an official, in which case the efficiency of an armory is lost. Using rubber bullets is an interesting idea that I had never before considered. However, while rubber bullets would work to keep away an unarmed attacker, they wouldn't do more than piss off a shooter. Rubber bullets might slow a shooter down, but in the end it would just make the student a target. You say that MAD can be applied to handguns, but your logic doesn't make sense. The reason nuclear war doesn't happen is that all the powerful world-states have weapons powerful enough to really screw up the world. But for this theory to work with handguns, a majority of the school population would have to have a gun. People use guns to overpower the helpless, where as nuclear weapons cannot be used to overpower a country that also has nuclear weapons. You say in your last paragraph that there is no defense, but what about the on-campus police. There are trained officers that can use guns accurately and safely to protect the students. The only setback for officers is the time it takes to relay the information of an emergency. We already have defense, and guns would just make the defense weaker. Your only argument for the use of guns is that everyone who uses guns will be good responsible students, who are not only dead-eyes, but also always sober. And since I just disproved your argument, I think I can say that "things like that" are definitely "going to be happening".