I found the attached from WorldNetDaily this morning.

In Arizona, legislation that would allow people to carry their guns onto community college or university campuses has been advancing, and now awaits further Senate action, after critics demanded public schools be removed from the plan.

State Sen. Karen Johnson, the bill’s sponsor, said she was reluctant to make that change, because “I still feel our little kindergartners are sitting there as sitting ducks,” she told the Arizona Republic. But Johnson said the remaining bill now has a better chance to move forward.

Not a popular choice, but I think the correct one.

Lets do some math, and consider what this means. A reasonably competent person with a bolt action rifle (the slowest reload you are likely to see in modern times) can shoot about 30 rounds in a 60 second period - or 1 ever 2 second. With a little practice such a person could shoot one ever second, or 60 in a minute. In even the best cases, it will take the police 5 minutes to get to a scene like a school shooting. So, assuming only a moderately trained individual, and a manual reloading weapon, thats between 150 and 300 dead. Basically Ammo is the only limit.

I fully understand the hesitance of having guns in Schools - even though I am an avid gun owner. But how much safer will our children be if, for example, a teacher who has received special training and had a detailed background check, be permitted to carry a gun? The same is true for our collages - if adults, be they students or teachers, who receive both a detailed background check and special training, are permitted to carry a concealed weapon, that makes it a safer place; Right?

The New York [del]Enquirer[/del] Times did an article on this law which, despite its slant, is a good read. There was a couple of interesting points:

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, a Washington nonprofit organization, said 15 states were considering legislation that would authorize or make it easier for people to carry guns on school or college campuses under certain conditions. Those states include Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Virginia, according to the center, but it considers the Arizona proposal particularly egregious because it would not only allow students and faculty to carry such weapons, but staff members as well.

First, it is good to see that not only Arizona but also several others are having a fit of good sense. I need to write my state representative and get him to get something moving here in Texas.

The point about allowing staff members to also carry guns as being “egregious” is a non started. What the Brady Bunch has failed to consider is that everyone, be they faculty, staff, or students are required to take the same training, pass the same testing, and pass the same background test.

A co-worker said it best: People do not go around punching people in the face because people tend to punch back. The same behavior is true regardless of the medium of exchange - be it fists, clubs, or guns. If you have a place where the victim cannot strike back at the aggressor then that place becomes very attractive to the crazy people out there who want to cause us harm.

Gun laws and gun free zones just stack the deck against us and our loved ones. Crazy people to crazy things, and the best we can hope for is a fighting chance.