baldeagle wrote:If you follow the comments against campus carry, you will quickly pick up on a common phrase, "putting guns in the hands of students". The impression made, whether deliberate or not, is that all students will have a gun, including irresponsible ones who drink heavily, have anger problems or suffer from emotional or psychological problems. No mention is made of the qualifications for a CHL except to point out that they are not that stringent and they don't guarantee that a licensee will not commit a handgun crime. I believe these are commonly called talking points, and they are repeated by everyone who advocates against the bill.
It is deliberate. The people orchestrating the opposition know very well they're lying by omission. Granted, some people may propagate the notion in ignorance, but that doesn't excuse their irresponsibility in promulgating a falsehood.