Texas looks posed to pass a law allowing both teachers and students to carry firearms on college campuses. As a former college teacher, I have no problem with this. I never sought permission to carry a concealed gun to class, but it always seemed foolish to deliberately put so many defenseless people in one place as vulnerable as a classroom. Seeing Israeli teachers with their weapons only reinforced my belief that teachers carrying arms is a useful thing. Whether adult students (college age) should have them is really a question of what we want to declare about college students. To say they aren't competent to do this safely with their own judgment (especially on a college campus, according to some critics) is either a direct assault on their maturity as citizens or an admission that college campuses are the sort of corrosively immoral place that prevents otherwise law-abiding people from behaving properly.
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