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Jeff Morelock says:
February 22, 2011 at 9:10 am

As a former police officer and SWAT team leader who has trained for “Active Shooter” incidents like VT and Columbine, professors and students who have concealed weapons permits should be able to carry concealed firearms on campus.

Most active shooters are stopped by civilians and not law enforcement. People should be able to carry the tools they need to protect themselves wherever they are. This is not 1950s Mayberry USA, and people need to get their hands out of the sand.

Armed and properly trained citizens can and do make a different. To deny someone the ability to defend themselves or other people during an active shooter incident is ignorant and should be criminal.

I stated that I was a former police officer. As such I realize and shouldn’t have to say that police officers can’t be everywhere. The smaller the agency, the more this is true. Many campus police departments don’t students and professors with concealed weapons permit to carry guns, yet situations like Virginia Tech could have been either prevented or stopped after the first few shots.

Besides incidents like the Virginia Tech and Columbine shootings, names like Ted Bundy and other serial killers should come to mind when thinking about concealed carry on campus. He loved to kill female students after brutally raping them. Should female students be denied the means to prevent this from happening to them?