"but drunken fraternity brawls will turn into Dodge city!"
Aren't fraternities usually not on campus property anyway?
That's the funny part, to me at least, with this argument. Everybody's like "well every fight between hot-blooded 20-year-old guys will wind up with somebody dead." Guess how many fights I've seen occur on school property at a university? It's a very
round number, if you know what I mean. Every fight I've ever seen involving college students is usually at an off-campus party (either a fraternity or private house). Where carry isn't necessarily restricted by law.
It's not like people are duking it out every night in the dorms or anything, and certainly not in the halls after class. It's not high school.
The real question is what is so magical about a college campus that somebody the state has authorized to carry pretty much
anywhere else is suddenly unsafe to carry there. What happens when I cross 19th avenue onto campus property that suddenly makes concealed carry by a licensed student more dangerous?
And it should
never be argued in light of school shootings. Ever. They're irrelevant, and while I hate to break it to some of you they're probably the
worst argument for concealed carry on campus...in such a situation, it's entirely possible that concealed carry by students would to more harm than good. I don't feel like rehashing the argument I've had plenty of times before here, so I'll get to the actual point...it should be argued in terms of routine self-defense. I don't know about business majors, but for engineering majors it's not uncommon to be leaving the labs late at night (or, on really crappy nights, more like early in the morning). And assaults, robberies, rapes, and even murders can happen on campus just like anywhere else. A licensed student should have the same right to defend themselves in such a situation as anybody else walking down the street at midnight should have.
Arguing for concealed carry rights on campus in the context of mass school shootings is like arguing about pedestrian safety in the context of falling pianos. It's simply
not the issue.